Guwahati, Nov 04: Five days after the Assam serial blasts that claimed 84 lives, Police on Tuesday released the sketch of a suspect and five more sketches of persons who could be involved are being prepared and will be released soon.
Police said the sketch “tallied 77 per cent” with the descriptions provided to the artist [...]

GUWAHATI, Nov 3 – State Government today spokesperson Himanta Biswa Sarma said that every act of terrorism perpetrated in the State has its link with Bangladesh. Although, he did not divulge any thing further reiterating that ‘investigation into the serial blasts is going in the right and definite direction and very soon something will come [...]

NEW DELHI, Nov 2 — As the investigators of the Assam serial blasts pointed the needle of suspicion towards HuJI, the issue of continuous illegal immigration from Bangladesh has again come to fore with the Centre saying that citizens of the neighbouring country enter India “clandestinely” through the porous border, posing serious security threat.
“The government [...]

NEW DELHI, Nov 2 — Mega City Policing, a major component of a comprehensive police modernisation scheme, is expected to be extended to all the major cities in the aftermath of recent serial blasts across Assam.
The Union Home Ministry is considering an early implementation of the scheme conceived with the aim of meeting specific [...]

GUWAHATI, Nov 2 – Representing a cross-section of people, residents of Guwahati today came together to denounce terrorism, raising not just the issue of security, but the need to reinforce peace-building efforts. In a well-attended meeting organised by the Asam Nagarik Samaj, speakers condemned the recent group clashes in Darrang and Udalguri districts, which had [...]

GUWAHATI, Nov 2 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today asserted that the State Government had repeatedly been pursuing the issue of terrorists using the soil of neighbouring countries to perpetrate violence in the State. “Fundamentalist and divisive forces working from foreign land want to destabilise Assam. We have all along been pursuing this matter with [...]

GUWAHATI, Nov 1 – Asserting that there could be no compromise on terrorism, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today said that the Centre would take up the matter with governments of other countries if those were found to be involved in the acts of terrorism in India. “There can be no compromise on terrorism. If [...]

GUWAHATI, Nov 1 – Even after more than 48 hours have passed since a series of blasts rocked the State on Thursday, Assam Police continue to be clueless about the identity of the organisation behind the terror strikes, which claimed 81 lives, besides leaving over 200 injured. However, police claimed to have laid their hands [...]

GUWAHATI, Nov 1 — Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today rejected charges that the UPA government was soft on terror.
“We are not going soft on terror. There can be no compromise with terror,” Singh told reporters here after visiting the victims of Thursday’s serial blasts in Assam.
“Whosoever is responsible for these dastardly act… We will [...]

GUWAHATI, Nov 1 — Protesters torched vehicles, blocked railway tracks and roads and burnt effigies as a day-long bandh called by BJP and other saffron outfits to protest against the serial blasts hit normal life in Assam today.
All markets, shops, offices as well as educational and financial institutions remained closed with public and private [...]

GUWAHATI, Oct 31 – The death toll in the serial blasts in Assam has gone up to 77 and the possibility of casualties further increasing cannot be ruled out with the condition of over 20 injured still stated to be serious. So far six persons have succumbed to their injuries at the GMCH alone, of [...]

GUWAHATI, Oct 31 – Several organisations have called for bandhs to register their protest against yesterday’s serial blasts that took over 77 lives so far. While the Sadou Assam Karmachari Parishad (SAKP) has decided to observe November 1 as a black day in protest against the blasts, the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba-Chattra Parishad (AJYCP) today burnt [...]