Blasts hit Assam, ULFA and NDFB split formally

GUWAHATI - It was a bloody and dramatic beginning to the New Year Thursday with multiple blasts ripping through this Assam town and splits in two of the state’s frontline separatist groups, the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).

Five killed in Assam blasts, Chidambaram begins visit

GUWAHATI - Five people were killed and at least 50 others were wounded, six of them critically, as three powerful explosions rocked crowded areas in Assam’s main city of Guwahati on New Year’s day Thursday. Meanwhile, Home Minister P. Chidambaram has arrived here on a scheduled visit.

Five killed, 50 injured in Assam blasts

GUWAHATI - Five people were killed and at least 50 others wounded, six of them critically, as three powerful explosions rocked crowded areas in Assam’s main city of Guwahati on New Year’s day Thursday, a few hours before Home Minister P. Chidambaram arrived on a scheduled visit.

2008 was good for Indian tea, with exports rising

GUWAHATI - The beleaguered Indian tea industry is on a comeback trail after nearly a decade-long recession with exports increasing and prices firming up in the weekly auctions, officials here said Wednesday.

In 2008, urban terrorism stalked Assam (Yearender - 19)

GUWAHATI - Nothwithstanding a decline in the number of insurgency-related casualties in 2008, Assam saw the bloodiest face of urban terror with the region remaining the most violent theatre of conflict in India’s northeast.

Assam’s rebel Bodo group splits, extremist faction to wage war

GUWAHATI - The rebel National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam has split, with D.R. Nabla who was sacked as its chief claiming Saturday that he still heads the group and will continue to fight for independence.

Assam rebels bomb railway track, narrow escape for Rajdhani Express

GUWAHATI - A major disaster was averted Wednesday when a powerful explosion missed the super fast Rajdhani Express from New Delhi by a couple of minutes, although the blast damaged a portion of a railway track in Assam, officials said.