As many as sixteen people have been injured while a powerful bomb exploded in Tinsukia town at around 1 pm on Saturday. According to information, the blast took place at the busy GNB Road in front of a grocery. The injured people have been rushed to the hospital. High level police and civil officials have arrived in the spot to start operation. Meanwhile, one more crude bomb have been recovered just before a while. Details are awaited.
PermalinkSubmitted by Mousum on Sat, 08/03/2008 - 15:53
The Bangladeshi supporters have masterminded this blast. I am sure their plan is to kill the bihari labours and replace them with Bangladeshi parasites.
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The Opposition Asom Gana Parishad demands Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's statement to clear his stand following stunning revelations by Akhil Gogoi where the original but lost documents of criminal charges against Himanta Biswa Sarma were produced.
In a statement, the AGP said that these revelations have justified the allegations of how the Government has been patronizing criminal activities for the last several years.
The oppostion parties statement reads: DHD chief Jewel Garlosa’s statement in the court premises yesterday that the Government and the administration had a hand in DHD chairman Niranjan Hojai’s escape to Nepal is just one more instance exposing the...
Security forces on Saturday arrested an NDFB cadre suspected to have been involved in the July 8 blast which caused the derailing of the Kolkata-bound Garib Rath Express was arrested in Assam’s Chirang district. Sources say patrolling troops of the 15 Dogra Regiment acting on a tip off apprehended the militant identified as Edward Shrampani. Suspected NDFB militants planted the powerful bomb on the railway tracks at Gossaigaon, killing a child and injuring 13 other passengers of the Garib Rath Express.
Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma seems to have landed in trouble when RTI activist Akhil Gogoi comes out with evidence to prove the ministers involvement in a number of criminal cases against him. Addressing a crowded press conference in Guwahati Press Club on Saturday, the KMSS leader said he along woth other associates would soon approach the Supreme Court seeking its intervention.
Gogoi further produced the original documents of the criminal and TADA cases registered against him with Chanadmari and Paltanbazar police stations in 1991. These include the sensational murder of Congress veteran Manabendra Sarma. These particulars have been missing which was why, the...
A hardcore NDFB rebel died at an encounter with security forces in Sonitpur district of Assam on Saturday. According to information, the encounter took place at around 11 in the morning at Hijuguri under Rongapara police station bordering Arunachal Pradesh. Three other cadres of the Bodo rebel outfit managed to escape during the encounter. The deceased is yet to be identified. Police later recovered an AK-56 rifle along with several rounds of bullets from the spot.
Dispur police claimed to have arrested a hardcore ULFA leader on Thursday. The ULFA militant has been identified as Bijoi Deka (24), son of Naren Deka, a resident of South Gandhibari under Tamulpur police station in Baska district. He was apprehended by Dispur police and 128 bn of CRPF.
The Opposition parties have alleged that the government is trying to gag the Opposition parties before the commnecement of the monsoon session of Assembly.
Addressing a joint press conference on Thursday, AGP president Chandra Mohan said the government has failed on all front and that it was in a mood to confront the Oppoisition only to shift the focus on the Rs 1,000 crore scam in Dima Hasao district.
Assam BJP pesident Ranjit Dutta said the government will have to face the music if it continues to gag the Opposition's voice of protest with the help of NSUI and youth Congress activists. He said the government will be blamed if it tries in any form to disrupt Dispur dharna on Friday...
A minor boy died and several others have been injured as tripple blast rocked a train near Gosaigaon in kokrajhar. The first one blast took placed at 2.20 midnight at the Garib rath whe a six yr child died. The driver is missing. Some critically injured passengers have been rushed to hospital. Now local trains are being arranged to recue the standred ones. The second one blast took place at 3 in the wee hours while the third blast within 6 hours. More blasts are feard.
Apart from it, suspected NDFB cadres made low intensity blast on a railway bridge near Dhekiajuli in Sonitpur district on Wednesday.
Help line numbers: Alipurduar: 03564-270870, 03564-270871, 03564-253498. Guwahati:...
Assam RTI activist Akhil Gogoi seems to have shaken Dispur trading charges after charges against health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. In a sensational revelation, Gogoi told reporters that the minister last year purchased two luxurious cars worth Rs 40 lakh within a period of 2 months for his 5-year old daughter. Gogoi said the source of the fund is doubtful. Hours after it, the minister and his wife came out with a statement saying that that they had borrowed loan from bank and that his wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma receives Rs 1.50 lakh as salary from Newslive, where she is the chairperson. But a lot has remained unanswered. Strangely, no one from either from the government or from the party...
The war of words between Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta touched a new low. Continuing his war statement, the former chief minister dared his successor to reopen the sensational Manabendra Sarma killing case if the LOC case can be reopened. Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Wednesday, Mahanta said the Court has closed the LOC case and that Gogoi wants to reopen the case only to divert the focus on the Rs 1000 crore scam in Dima Hasao district.
A medical student who remained traceless from Guwahati for around 24 hours has been rescued in Siliguri on Wednesday morning. According to information, Kaushik Kotoky, the son of B Barooah Cancer Institute director Dr Amal Kotoky managed to have escaped from the miscreants Siliguri 24 hours after he was kidnapped from his resident in Guwahati. According to information, he went missing after two workers came to his residence on Tuesday. Details are awaited.
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