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After eight years of serious travelling across India's North East I am still a newcomer to Mizoram.
Friday, November 21, 2008 www.ndtv.com
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After eight years of serious travelling across India's North East I am still a newcomer to Mizoram. From North East's capital, Guwahati it is a long and arduous road journey, which can take more than 18 hours and the alternative air route is uncertain. As I touched down at Lengpui airport in a small ATR aircraft I entered a modern airport but far removed from the usual. The landscape, stunning.
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India is facing an extraordinary unrest and angst from the region of Indus to the land of Brahmaputr
Thursday, November 06, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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India is facing an extraordinary unrest and angst from the region of Indus to the land of Brahmaputra. I am filing this column a bit late from Tsangtse, on way to Chushul, where the famous battle of Rezangla took place in November 1962 under the leadership of Major Shaitan Singh. Having just crossed the mesmerizing flow of river Indus and seeing the Chinese post across Pengong, I was reminded of A
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India
Shaitan-Singh
Chinese
Deepak-Barthakur
Assam
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be hoping to give a healing touch, when he visits Guwahati
Saturday, November 01, 2008 www.ndtv.com
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As investigators still grope in the dark, searching for leads on the serial blasts in Assam, the victims struggle to cope with the tragedy.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be hoping to give a healing touch, when he visits Guwahati later on Saturday for a first hand assessment of the situation following the blasts.
The PM also plans to visit the injured in two Guwahati hospitals.
He will also
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Guwahati
Tarun-Gogoi
Shiv-Charan-Mathur
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Advani called for exerting pressure, preferably diplomatic, on Bangladesh
Saturday, November 01, 2008 justsamachar.com
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Politics
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Guwahati: Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani on Friday called for exerting pressure, preferably diplomatic, on Bangladesh to ensure that its soil was not used as a base for anti-India activities.
“Yesterday’s [Thursday’s] serial blasts in Assam have confirmed once again that Bangladeshi soil is being used for anti-India activities,” he told journalists after visiting the three blast sites
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L.K.-Advani
India
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BCCI has postponed a Ranji match in Guwahati, following the serial blasts in the city
Saturday, November 01, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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Sports - Cricket
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MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has postponed a Ranji match in Guwahati, following the serial blasts in the city but claimed that it has no immediate plans to move an international match from the eastern city.
However, BCCI president Shashank Manohar told DNA that the Board would consider all option before the sixth ODI between India and England on November 29.
According
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BCCI
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India
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HuJI militants along with other jehadi outfits are suspected to be behind the serial blasts in Assam
Saturday, November 01, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Guwahati: Little-known Islamic Security Force-Indian Mujahideen (ISF-IM) claimed responsibility for the serial blasts that killed 77 people in Assam and warned of more such attacks.
In an SMS message sent to local 'News Live' television channel, the ISF-IM claimed responsibility for Thursday’s blasts and threatened to carry out more bomb explosions in several parts of the country.
The message
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Indian-Mujahideen
Assam
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Explosives were packed into the boot spaces of three Maruti 800s and driven to the blast sites.
Saturday, November 01, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Terrorism
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GUWAHATI: The three blasts here were all car bombs. Explosives were packed into the boot spaces of three Maruti 800s and driven to the blast sites. The explosives were a lethal cocktail of RDX, TNT and PETN, one of the most powerful explosives known.
PETN or pentrite is usually packaged in small quantities to boost other charges and used in landmines and artillery shells. The chassis numbers of t
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RDX
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Khagen-Sarma
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A Union Home Ministry team, consisting of experts from the security and intelligence wings, will vis
Friday, October 31, 2008 justsamachar.com
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NEW DELHI: A Union Home Ministry team, consisting of experts from the security and intelligence wings, will visit Assam, where serial bomb blasts occured on Thursday.
An expert team of the National Security Guards has already left for Guwahati to analyse the explosives used in the blasts and to look for clues.
“There could be links among various terrorist groups which are active in the northeast
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Serial blasts in Assam have strengthened intelligence agencies' suspicion that jihadis — especially
Friday, October 31, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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GUWAHATI/AGARTALA/KOLKATA: Thursday's serial blasts in Assam have strengthened intelligence agencies' suspicion that jihadis — especially
Harkat-ul-Jehadi-e-Islami (HuJI) — are increasingly using northeast-based terror outfits to carry out attacks in the region. ( Watch )
"We had information that HuJI-Bangladesh was using northeast underground bases in Bangladesh to trigger blasts. In Agartala
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KOLKATA
HuJI
Bangladesh
Ulfa
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The first explosion in the busy Ganeshguri area here yesterday morning was too powerful to be taken
Friday, October 31, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Terrorism
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Guwahati: Coming two days after Diwali, the first explosion in the busy Ganeshguri area here yesterday morning was too powerful to be taken for a cracker burst and the cries of the injured confirmed the worst fears.
"As the area shook, we became sure that it was a bomb and then came the cries of the injured and dying," said Rupam Bhuyan, whose hand was injured in the blast. It was followed by 11
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Diwali
Ganeshguri
Rupam-Bhuyan
Barpeta
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