The Assam police on Friday sounded a high alert in Guwahati and nearby areas following the arrest of three rebels of Manipur’s extremists group after a powerful bomb blast at Fancy Bazar on Thursday.

Assam governor J.B. Patnaik’s meeting with Union home minister P. Chidambaram in connection with the multi-crore scam of North Cachar Hills has created a furore in the state’s political circle with the Opposition accusing the ruling party of defending the tainted ministers and ignoring the office of the governor.

In a major breakthrough the Assam police on Thursday apprehended a woman Ulfa cadre from Jorhat who had come from Burma for the treatment of a bullet injury that she had sustained in cross-firing between the Ulfa cadres at a camp.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday distanced himself from the controversy involving his health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma while suggesting that it is his personal problem and the minister ha

In what may force the court to reopen two Tada cases of extortion implicating Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti on Saturday produced the original files and case diaries which were missing from the police station leading to closure of the case. In fact, Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had been acquitted in two Tada cases a few years back by the top court because the case diary and investigation report of the investigating officer of the two cases had gone missing mysteriously from Chandmari and Panbazar police station of Assam.

The outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland on Friday claimed responsibility for the bomb blast on the railway track and threatened to carry out more such blasts targeting passenger trains and government buses.

In a sudden strike outlawed NDFB rebels on Thursday blew up railway tracks and derailed the Garib Rath Express a passenger train killing one person and injuring seven others including the driver of the train in Western Assam’s Kokrajhar district. However, security forces foiled similar attempts of Bodo rebels in Northern Assam’s Sonitpur district by recovering the IED before it was triggered.

The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), an NGO extensively using RTI to expose corruption on higher places, on Monday claimed to have unearthed sensational scandals involving Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

The All Bodo Students Union has decided to intensify agitation for the separate Bodoland state comprising the Bodo dominated areas of Assam and present Bodoland Territorial Council of state.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday admitted that the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom has intensified the extortion in tea garden areas and business hubs of the state besides trying to recruit new cadres.