TEZPUR: A Nepali-origin businessman has been kidnapped by suspected NDFB militants in lower Assam’s Sonitpur district, police said today.

Two motorcycle-borne NDFB ultras came to the house of Madhab Bhatta Rai and called him out from his Kalamati Naharanigaon residence at around 10.30 pm last night.

GUWAHATI: The Assam government Sunday warned of exemplary punishment to errant teachers for caning students after nine school kids were physically tortured by a drunken headmaster.

“We shall take stern action against teachers for indulging in corporal punishment in schools. No teacher should use the rod or the cane to beat students,” Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters.

GUWAHATI: Expected meet between an Assamese delegation of the ‘All Assam Convention for Revival of Talks’ and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was cancelled here on Monday.

The six-member citizens’ delegation comprising social activists and intellectuals is in New Delhi.

A 12-year-old boy, Mousham Raj Mahanta, in Assam died allegedly after being beaten by his teachers for failing to do his homework. The two accused teachers have been absconding.