Guwahati: If the development plank the Congress rode on in the two previous elections endeared itself to voters in Assam, the near-absence of militancy for a considerable time made the party's position stronger in the 2011 assembly election. Absence of major militant violence ever since the arrest of top NDFB and ULFA leaders, including its chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and others, two years ago and their participation in the peace process...
04:09 PM, May 14, 2011
Guwahati: The Assam unit of the CPI on Wednesday promised to include all the insurgent outfits in the state in negotiations to solve the vexed militancy problem. Releasing the party's election manifesto for next month's Assembly poll, Bhogeswar Dutta of CPI state council, said the NDFB and other militant outfits should be called for negotiation following the government's peace initiatives with the banned ULFA. Welcoming the initial round of talks...
03:09 PM, Mar 24, 2011
Guwahati: A security alert was sounded in election-bound Assam on Tuesday, a day after militants bombed the ruling Congress party's headquarters, injuring five party workers, and killed nine Border Security Force (BSF) troopers in separate attacks. "A state of high alert was sounded across Assam with police, army and paramilitary troopers deployed in strength to foil any further militant attacks. We would be dealing with the militants with a very...
01:39 PM, Mar 15, 2011
Shillong: Two top NDFB militants, arrested along with three other cadres and a sympathizer in Meghalaya, have admitted their involvement in a number of killings and blasts in Assam, besides links with smaller militant groups, police said. Lachit Boro alias Langana confessed to have killed 26 people, including those in the serial strikes that the outfit carried out in western Assam districts, mainly in Sonitpur, killing more than 20 people...
02:41 PM, Feb 13, 2011
Guwahati: Three more persons were gunned down by NDFB militants today, while another man succumbed to his injuries, pushing the toll in the overnight violence to 22, as the rebels warned of more killings in Assam. However, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said "We are not going to be cowed down by terror" and the security forces have launched an offencive against National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants. The authorities have...
11:50 AM, Nov 09, 2010
Guwahati: At least one person was killed and seven wounded, two of them critically, in a powerful explosion on a railway track on Thursday that ripped apart the engine and a coach of a passenger train in Assam, officials said. A police spokesperson said the blast took place at 2.15 am at Babubil in Kokrajhar district, about 270 km west of Assam’s main city of Guwahati. "The Garib Rath Express...
07:36 AM, Jul 08, 2010
Their fight was for an independent homeland for the Dimasa tribe. ...
02:44 PM, Oct 02, 2009
Security forces kill NDFB, MULTA men in an ambush. ...
10:25 AM, Apr 20, 2009
ULFA and other radical organizations are operating under ISI and DGFI. ...
10:31 PM, Nov 13, 2008
Assam was rocked by 12 bomb blasts in which at least 88 people were killed. ...
01:57 PM, Nov 12, 2008
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