Train services in Assam were completely paralysed and all rail links between the Northeast and the rest of the country were completely cut off as the All-Bodo Students’ Union launched its agitation for a separate Bodoland.

Violence triggered off after creation of Telangana in Andhra Pradesh continued to rock Karbi Anglong district of Assam on Thursday with protesters setting a deadline of August 15 for all the elected representative of the district — MP and MLAs to resign in support of their demand of an “autonomous state”.

With Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday outright rejecting the demand of separate states by various ethnic groups, violence broke out in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district where support

The proposal to create Telangana has surcharged the atmosphere of Assam where powerful All-Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU) on Tuesday threatened to launch vigorous mass movement while another faction led by the president of Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) and chief of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) Hagrama Mahiliary air dashed to New Delhi to press for their demand of separate Bodoland in Assam.

Assam director general of police Jayanta Narayan Choudhury here on Monday blamed outlawed Ulfa (I) for launching a planned offensive to make their presence felt in Assam.

The elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah and military commander of dreaded National Democratic Front of Bodoland I.K. Songbijit have started fresh attempt to rope in Chinese agencies to spread their terror network outside India.

At least six persons, including two constables of home guard, were injured in a grenade attack by suspected Ulfa rebels in one of the most crowded locality of Guwahati near the Paltanbazar police station on Sunday.

A day after Assam forest guards killed two poachers in Kaziranga National Park, a Rhino was killed and its horn was taken away by poachers in Assam’s Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary. The forest department officials said on Friday that carcass of the rhino was found on Thursday by patrolling forest guards in the sanctuary.

Assam CM Tarun Gogoi here on Friday said that he cancelled his scheduled week-long visit to South Africa in view of the sudden spurt in extremist activities in the state.

The growing nexus between the anti-talk Ulfa and the NDFB has been emerging as an area of concern for the security forces, which is worried about a fledgling alliance between elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah and self-styled military commander of the NDFB I.K. Songbijit in Assam.