Army troops operating against insurgents gunned down three tribal militants belonging to Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) in an encounter on Friday in a village inside Karbi Anglong Hills district. Five other insurgents were arrested in the operation.
The locomotive of the Kamrup Express was damaged in an explosion triggered by tribal Karbi militants at Khakhati in Assam's Karbi Anglong district at around 1.30 pm on Tuesday. However, over 400 passengers traveling in the train escaped unscathed as the impact of the explosion was not felt in the coaches. The damaged locomotive of the passenger train was replaced and the train continued its journey towards Tinsukia in Eastern Assam.
Acting on specific information, the Army personnel zeroed in on the camp of the militant group inside dense forest, about 12 kilometers away from Manja in insurgency-ravaged Karbi Anglong district. The sentry on guard, who opened fire at the Army, was shot dead in retaliatory fire. The rest of the militants fled deeper inside the forest. The Army recovered a large number of arms and ammunition besides combat dresses, ration, utensils and electronic gadgets from the camp.
The tribal areas, where autonomous councils were created under the 6th Schedule of the Constitution, were also exempted from the purview of the CAA, officials said quoting from the rues of the law that were notified on Monday.
The district superintendent of police and other officials were supervising rescue and relief operations, the police added.
Fifteen persons, including six militants and a Congress leader and his family, were killed in Assam's troubled Karbi Anglong and N C Hills districts on Tuesday, where a goods train was also attacked and 20 houses burnt.
This card is a variation of the popular Kisan Credit card.G-Card was distributed to nearly 3,500 small and marginal farmers growing ginger in the remote militant infested district of Karbi Anglong. The card has brought a lot of benefits to the farmers of the area, who often had to shell out 'revolutionary taxes' on cash transactions.
A day after violent protests in the state capital, a silent sit-in demonstration was organised on Monday against the brutal killing of the two men in Karbi Anglong.
The Naga Rengma Hills Protection Force has claimed responsibility for the killing of nine people of the Karbi community, all residents of Assam's Karbi Anglong district on December 28.
Dominic Xavier offers his take on these quaint developments.
Life was hit in lower Assam for the second day on Tuesday in three bandhs called to press for Bodoland and Kamtapur, while Karbi Anglong, which had erupted over statehood demand on the lines of Telangana, was slowly limping back to normal.
In a joint operation conducted by Army and Assam police, one NDFB(S) over ground worker was apprehended in Shimlabagan village in Chirang Reserve Forest area of Chirang district on Monday.
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that highly decomposed bodies of nine persons were recently found in a gorge, covered in polythene sheets, in Nagaland's Dimapur district adjacent to 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.
Train services were paralysed in Assam as several Bodo outfits resorted to a 12-hour railway blockade in Kokrajhar while violence continued for the third day in Karbi Anglong as ethnic groups stepped up their demand for a separate state on the lines of Telangana.
Three persons were injured in police firing at Donkamokam, in the violence-ravaged Karbi Anglog Hills district on Friday, even as the army staged flag march in the affected district headquarter town of Diphu.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday informed that 10 tribal militants involved in the killing of Hamren police district Superintendent Nityananda Goswami and his personal security officer Ratul Nunisa have been arrested during the intensified operation launched by the Assam police and paramilitary forces in Karbi Anglong hill district of the state.
The government of India has signed a peace agreement with a tribal insurgent group from Assam, United People's Democratic Solidarity.
Three persons, including two former terrorists, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in recent incidents of rhino poaching in Kaziranga National Park.
While incessant rain in the past 24 hours has wreaked havoc in parts of the northeast, triggering flash floods, the national capital experienced one of its hottest days.
WhatsApp hoax triggers lynching of two others in Maharashtra's Aurangabad.
Seven killed in fresh ethnic violence in Karbi Anglong district
A gang of 18 notorious Karbi poachers who were behind butchering of at least six rhinos in Kaziranga National Park over the past three years have been caught by the Assam police.
In a major boost to the morale of security forces engaged sustained counter-insurgency operation Assam, 412 militants including 22 women of the Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) laid down arms before Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi in presence of senior police and Army officials at Diphu in Karbi Anglong hill district of Assam.
Three militants belonging to the Karbi People's Liberation Tiger were killed in a joint team by the police and paramilitary forces in an encounter at Dolamara Torapung area of Karbi Anglong district in Assam on Wednesday.
Three Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed and five others injured when militants ambushed a CRPF patrol party in insurgency-hit Karbi Anglong hill district on Assam on Saturday.The ambush took place during the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is scheduled to address some rallies in the poll-bound state.Militants from the Karbi People's Liberation Tiger ambushed two vehicles of a CRPF patrol party at Deothar under Bokajan police station,
'The entire shoot paused after that.' 'There was a heaviness on set -- a shared recognition of the horror we were portraying.'
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has appealed to both Karbis and Dimasas to maintain peace.
The incident was recorded by locals on their mobile phones and circulated on social media.
Three Hindi-speaking traders were shot dead by suspected KLNLF militants in Central Assam's Nagaon district early Monday morning, police said.
The commander-in-chief of ethnic insurgent outfit Karbi People's Liberation Tigers (KLPT) was shot dead in an encounter with a joint police and Army team in Karbi Anglong district of Assam early Tuesday morning.
No one, including the minister who was sleeping at the time of the explosion, was injured in the explosion that made mockery of the geared up security arrangements in the hill district.
A powerful bomb exploded on a railway track in Karbi Anglong district of central Assam early on Thursday morning. According to the police, the attack was targeted at the Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express by militants from the suspected Karbi Longri National Liberation Front insurgent group. Nobody was injured in the blast. The incident occurred five kms away from Diphu, just after a security escort engine for checking the tracks passed the area.
The blast damaged the train's locomotive, but none of the 400 present in the train were injured.
Police claimed that it was an operation carried out by 20-odd armed militants belonging to the proscribed United Liberation Front of Asom and tribal militant group Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front.
Assam is embracing organic farming in a big way with the help of central government.
Altogether 34,189 people, comprising 14, 675 women and 3,787 children, are reeling under the impact of the deluge.
Continuing attacks on Hindi-speaking people in Assam, United Liberation Front of Asom and Karbi Longri National Liberation Front militants on Sunday shot dead four persons in Karbi-Anglong district.
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