The recovery was made after the arrest of Champak Sharma, an ULFA cadre. Immediately after the arrest, the police recovered five kilograms of RDX explosives, a large number of splinters, bomb sealing materials and ammunition of SLR from a rented house near the Army transit camp.
Was some area in poll-bound Andhra Pradesh the real target of the two bombs that exploded in Chennai Central railway station early today?
Seventy-five bullets and electrical devices used by the Army to make explosives were stolen from Guwahati Express while being taken to the Pune ordnance factory, police said on Monday. The theft was discovered when the train arrived at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus station at suburban Chembur on Friday night, they said, adding that a theft case under section 379 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered.
The case of the girl who was molested by a mob of over 20 men on the streets of Guwahati on Monday night has raised questions about the indifference of the bystanders and the callousness of the police. But a few brave men, including the senior journalist of a city-based daily, did try to shield the girl from her tormentors before the police arrived at the spot.
Journalist Chayan Sarkar surfaced at Coochbehar on Friday after being missing for 5 days.
A direct contest between nominees of the BJP-led NDA and Congress-headed Grand Alliance is on the cards in 20 constituencies
A senior police official informed that the police came to know about the explosive materials following the arrest of an ULFA militant in Guwahati on Thursday.
The seriously injured Congress leader was rushed to Guwahati Medical College Hospital where he was declared dead.
Police found the bomb kept inside an air bag from seat number 22 of S5 coach during routine search of the Kolkata-Guwahati Kanchenjunga Express at the Guwahati Railway Station, sources said.
Three persons were killed and over 15 injured in two separtae incidents of bomb blasts in Guwahati and Tinsukia in Assam.
All the 568 cadres of the United Peoples Democratic Solidarity, a Karbi tribal militant group, laid down arms at a function held at Diphu in Karbi Anglong district in the presence of Assam's Director General of Police Shankar Baruah and Lieutenant General Shakti Gurung on Wednesday morning.
An enraged group of locals went berserk inside the hospital complex and set fire to a portion of the building in presence of police demanding arrest of Dr Baruah who was away in Bangalore.
Earlier in the day, suspected ULFA militants detonated a blast under an Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited pipeline carrying crude oil at Lakwa in Sivasagar district of Upper Assam.
Chances of the Army major committing suicide has not been ruled out by the Dibrugarh police given that a depressing note was recovered from his abandoned vehicle
Militancy connected with jihad and north-east insurgency will be the focus of discussions when top ranking officials from state police and central police forces will meet in Guwahati on November 29 and 30.
The Centre has decided to drop action against two journalists of a national daily for filing a "wrong" report about Chinese firing at Indian border guards in Sikkim.
Text messaging services of all telecom operators also remained suspended in Lucknow and some other parts of UP. In Assam, services were restored 10 days after being banned.
Security personnel at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport in Kolkata went into a tizzy on Wednesday after receiving three phone calls threatening to blow up the airport.
The location of United Liberation Front of Asom chief Arabinda Rajkhowa and the outfit's military deputy-in-chief Raju Barua besides eight others apprehended by the Assam police is being kept a closely guarded secret.
In further trouble for the chit fund scam-hit Saradha group of Kolkata, the Enforcement Directorate has registered a money laundering case to probe the allegations of financial irregularities by numerous depositors against it.
Security in Meghalaya's Garo Hills region has been beefed up ahead the visit of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister of state for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju tomorrow, an official said on Tuesday. Security beefed up in Garo Hills for Rajnath's visit.
The Assam police have arrested six people for having links with jihadi elements in the Dhubri sector of western Assam along the India-Bangladesh border.
Have the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh and ULFA's Paresh Barua faction joined forces?
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday visited violence-displaced people lodged in three relief camps in Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri to gauge the rehabilitation measures undertaken by the administration.
Mekhail hopped off the bench in a hurry and turning his back to Indrani, stood at the window. Indrani ignored him too. Mekhail is getting married later this year. His mother will, of course, not be in attendance. Nor, of course, would he want her to be there, if she could.
The incident was recorded by locals on their mobile phones and circulated on social media.
The 17-year old girl travelling with her uncle in a three-tier AC compartment raised an alarm at 4 am when the armyman was making an attempt to molest her as the Rajdhani Express was passing between Lumding and Chaparmukh stations, a NF Railway spokesman said.
About 1,000 northeasterners, who had fled Bangalore to their native states in August following rumours of attacks against them, returned on Tuesday, police said.
A dreaded Garo National Liberation Army militant was killed and arms, ammunition, diaries and documents of the outfit was recovered on Tuesday night in a joint operation by the army, and Goalpara district police on the basis input provided by the army intelligence.
10 central trade unions have called a nationwide shutdown against 'anti-worker policies' of the central government. Apart from being successful in Bengal, Kerala and NE states, the bandh has also got support from Cong leader Rahul Gandhi and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.
During the day, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan held a meeting to review preparedness for COVID-19 management, through video conference with health ministers, chief secretaries of all states and UTs, central ministers and representatives from the related organisations and stressed on the need for keeping testing and quarantine facilities, isolation wards, and labs in active readiness.
In a video of the incident circulated on social media, the two men can be heard begging for their lives and trying to explain to the livid crowd that they were innocent but to no avail.
The chairperson of the National Commission for Women Mamata Sharma on Wednesday recommended Assam government to provide government job for the victim of July 9 Guwahati molestation episode besides proper counseling and rehabilitation.
Massive crowds thronged liquor stores, more vehicles plied on roads and cab-hailing platforms resumed services as India entered the third phase of the lockdown on Monday with further easing of curbs except in containment zones in the shadow of the highest rate of recovery yet from coronavirus.
The Assam police stumbled upon the whole operation when they arrested a HuJI associate, allegedly involved in fake currency and arms racket, on May 21 from Dhubri area of the state
The bomb was kept in a bag in front of the gate of the refinery in Noonmati area of the city, police said.
Bandh supporters burnt tyres and pelted stones at vehicles in different parts of the state following which the police took nearly 500 of them into preventive custody in Guwahati, Golokgunj and Agomoni in Dhubri, official sources said.
Prohibitory orders were imposed in Delhi and parts of Karnataka. Police kept tight vigil in Kerala. In Gujarat, 50 people were arrested for Thursday's violence.
Army staged a flag march on Wednesday in areas hit by violence in Assam's Goalpara district and shoot-at-sight orders issued even as Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said he would recommend a CBI inquiry into the violence in which the toll rose to 19.
A bomb exploded on a railway track minutes after the Howrah-Guwahati down Garib Rath Express passed Goabari in lower Assam''s Kokrajhar district early on Sunday morning.
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