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NIA names Barpeta resident

The National Investigation Agency has named a resident of Barpeta district in the recent Burdwan blast case. The country’s premier investigation agency has indicted Shahnur Alom who is a resident of Sarthebari along with eleven others who are absconding. Among other, four hail from Bangladesh and seven from West Bengal who have alleged links with the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh. The NIA has released photographs of nine of the wanted persons but has no photograph of three of the four suspected Bangladeshi nationals involved.

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Poll related violence refuses to die down. Two more people were killed in police firing in Dhubri district on Friday. The incident took place during poll counting in Hathsinghmari area of the South Salamara sub division when a group of men allegedly tried to storm into a counting centre and destroy ballot boxes for the elections.Five other people were also injured in the firing by Assam Police and paramilitary forces.It comes three days after 20 people were killed in police firing in Goalpara district where protests by the Rabha Hajong tribe during Tuesday's village council elections triggered violence.The police said it has had to open fire because members of the Rabha Hajong tribe were...
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