"Why did the BJP government in 2018 sanction Rs 46 crore? This shows Modi is a liar", Gogoi asserted.
Finding it a Herculean task to scan passengers' luggage with hand-held metal detectors, the GRP has requested the Assam government to install X-Ray machines like the ones used in airports to check passengers' luggage.
Hours after Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi claimed that the key accused in the Guwahati molestation case was in Bhubaneswar, the Odisha police on Monday said its Assam counterpart is yet to contact it on the matter.
Two more persons allegedly involved in the molestation of a girl have been arrested and a police official suspended for dereliction of duty amid ongoing raids in Assam and neighbouring states to nab the remaining culprits.
Former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister and a veteran Congress leader Gegong Apang was grated bail on Friday by the Gauhati high court in connection with the Rs 1,000 crore public distribution system scam.
The immigrants were under detention in Cachar Central Jail in Assam's Silchar district since 2012.
The blast triggered angry protests in the area and in nearby Fancy Bazar, the commercial hub of the N-E region.
Senior superintendent of police, Guwahati city, informed that a bomb planted by suspected United Liberation Front of Asom militants rocked Anthgaon area in the heart Guwahati at around 12.30 pm on Monday.
'If there are provocations and people try to exploit and manipulate the situation along linguistic, religious lines, then Assam might relapse into its troubled past.'
A huge consignment of arms and ammunition meant for militant outfit Garo National Liberation Army was intercepted and seized by the Assam police at Gorchuk area on Saturday. The police also arrested six people including four GNLA members. The consignment was being carried in a Maruti Zen by a supplier called Kongam Hongkhal and the car was driven by one Ritesh Basumatary.
The prime minister thanked the people but said it was the start of a long battle, as he urged them to follow social distancing to stop the chain of transmission of Coronavirus which has infected 360 people and claimed seven lives in India.
In stepped up violence by the proscribed United Liberation Front of Asom in Assam, one person was killed and several injured, some seriously, in separate incidents of bomb blasts and a grenade attack on Tuesday, police said.
The continuing protests over the alleged rape and murder of a young woman at Boginadi area in North Lakhimpur district on Friday spilled into Guwahati city demanding immediate arrests of the culprits.
And then came the chief moment of Friday. If the courtroom had a soundtrack, Beethoven's 9th would be playing, providing a triumphant, dramatic prologue to the production of this last clip. A woman reporter was asking Mekhail about Sanjeev Khanna. He says clearly, without mincing words, emphatically: 'Never seen him. First time I am hearing his name.'
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday said the prime accused in the molestation case of a girl in Guwahati is in Bhubaneswar but has not been arrested so far.
A 13-year old boy was shot dead by the Central Reserve Police Force personnel in an alleged case of mistaken identity in Assam's Karbi Anglong district, official sources said in Guwahati.
The Maoists who are trying to gain a stronghold in Assam have 114 identified cadres working in the state, as per the information gathered by the special task force of Assam Police that was constituted to study the menace.
The woman also filed the case against Assam MP for allegedly sharing the post in his social media page.
The thanks-giving activities will start with laying of wreaths at the police memorial in Delhi and in several other cities on Sunday morning to honour the police personnel deployed in enforcement of the nationwide lockdown, officials said. It will be followed by fly-pasts by fighter and transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force, covering a sizeable number of cities and towns across the country between 10 am and 11 am, officials said.
Security has been increased in and around the ancient Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati in view of the Al-Qaeda threatening to spread its network to Assam.
A senior journalist Anil Majumdar, executive editor of Guwahati-based Assamese Daily Aji was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at the gate of his residence in the heart of Guwahati at 10-30 on Tuesday night.
Amarjyoti Kalita, prime accused in the molestation of a girl on July 9 outside a pub, was remanded to five days police custody on Thursday.
Officials of the Tamil Nadu special police who are conducting a joint probe with their counterparts in Karnataka have concluded that the two bombs that went off on the Bangalore-Guwahati train were not planted in Bangalore.
The CCTV footage at the Chennai Central Railway Station shows a middle-aged man, whose face was covered with a handkerchief, running towards the exit minutes before twin bombs went off in two coaches on the Bangalore-Guwahati Express on Thursday morning. The footage, though blur, is being looked at as the first lead in the investigation. So what are the chances of the police nabbing the suspect on the basis of this evidence?
Special infection proof fabric for usage in hospitals, low-cost corona virus testing kits, isolation pods for coronavirus infected patients, bubble helmets which can be an alternative for traditional oxygen masks and pendant to raise alarm on breach of social distancing, are also among the innovative ideas that have been given shape since the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
Three militants of the outlawed ULFA (Independent) were killed in a blast that took place at the residence of a farmer in a remote village near the Assam-Meghalaya boundary on Friday morning.
"We are not satisfied with the sluggish pace of investigation by the CBI into abduction and killing of my father. We have serious doubts that some influential quarters may try to derail the investigation. So, we have decided to move the high court requesting it to review the progress of investigation," said Praveen Kumar Gautom, son of the slain FCI official.
Assam Director General of Police J N Chaudhury has said that the law and order situation in the riot-hit north-east state was under control and that he expected people residing in relief camps to return to their homes post Eid.
The Assam police on Friday arrested journalist Gaurav Jyoti Neog in connection with the molestation of a girl on the streets of Guwahati on July 9.
The Guwahati high court has rejected the anticipatory bail petition of the reporter of a news channel who allegedly shot the video of the molestation of a girl on July 9.
Close on the heels of the molestation of a girl in Guwahati that sparked public outrage, a teenager met the same fate, allegedly at the hands of army jawans in Assam's Sibsagar district, police said on Saturday.
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The three-day conference of the directors general of police of all states was inaugurated in Hyderabad on Friday by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
At least nine persons, including five women, were killed and 24 injured when a bus in which they were travelling fell into a roadside ditch at Uluani in Nagaon district on Sunday.
Five persons, including a woman, were injured when a low-intensity bomb went off near a Durga Puja pandal at Japorigog in the heart of Guwahati city at around 8-30 on Wednesday.
The clip, taken from a mobile phone, showed the unidentified armed police personnel kicking the differently-abled man.
'Gogoi will be remembered as someone who recovered Assam as a state, as a people and society from the fear of insurgency that had struck the state from the 1980s till 2000.'
Police suspected the blasts were the handiwork of the ULFA, which was stepping up subversive activities in the run up to its foundation day on April seven.
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