Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GAUHATI, India (AP) — Six bodies have been recovered from a river after the worst ethnic violence in India's remote northeast in ...

The latest flashpoint is the Assam government's proposal to create a new Scheduled Tribes category, ST (Valley), covering six communities The tension is sharpest along the Assam-Meghalaya border, ...

In a major and unprecedented development in Assam, thousands of tribal students and youth in the Bodoland region — dominated by the Bodo tribe, the largest tribal group in the state — stormed the ...

INDIA'S north-east is “an anthropologist's delight and an administrator's nightmare”, notes Sanjoy Hazarika, author of several books about the region. Its 39m people divide into 350 ethnic groups, ...