300 ULFA and NDFB militants based in Bangladesh, says Gogoi

October 5th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Army and paramilitary forces have launched a full-scale operation to capture ultras of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), which was involved in Sunday's massacre. On Sunday, eleven villagers were killed by NDFB militants at Bhimajuli in Assam's Sonitpur District.

October 3rd, 2009 GUWAHATI - An influential tribal separatist group in Assam Saturday for the first time openly admitted to using Bangladesh as a base to carry out their hit-and-run guerrilla strikes in the region, a rebel leader said. He urged the neighbouring country to help them.

September 12th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Bangladesh's pledge to sign a treaty enabling transfer of sentenced militants and criminals and crack down on Indian separatists in its territory has evoked a positive response in Assam. If such a treaty is signed, then it is surely a positive development.

June 25th, 2009 GUWAHATI - A dawn-to-dusk general strike enforced by two separatist groups Thursday paralyzed normal life in India's northeastern state of Assam. The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) called the 12-hour strike to protest the killings of a large number of rebels by security forces, claiming they were 'custodial deaths'.

June 11th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Three separatist militants were killed in Assam and a large cache of arms recovered in separate gunbattles with the army in the restive northeastern state, police said here Thursday. A police spokesman said that a National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militant was gunned down in an encounter Thursday as the soldiers continued anti-insurgency operation in different parts of Assam.

June 11th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Three militants, including two ULFA cadres, were killed and another injured in two separate encounters in Assam on Thursday. According to police, the five National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants exchanged fire at around 4:00 a.m.

June 11th, 2009 GUWAHATI - At least five militants of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) have been killed in two separate gun battles with the army since Wednesday night in Assam, a police official said Thursday. "A fierce gun battle took place between the army and NDFB rebels in Karbi Anglong district in southern Assam Thursday morning in which three guerrillas were shot dead and the remaining rebels of the group managed to escape," the official told reporters.

June 5th, 2009 GUWAHATI/AIZAWL - Seven militants were killed in Assam and a large cache of arms was recovered in a crackdown by security forces in the northeast, police said here Friday. "All together six National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants and a United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) rebel were gunned down and two NDFB ultras were arrested in different places of Sonitpur district in the past 24 hours," an Assam police spokesman said.

April 9th, 2009 GUWAHATI - The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was 'joining hands' with opposition parties in Assam to defeat the ruling Congress in the upcoming parliamentary elections, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi alleged Thursday. 'We have some information about ULFA joining hands with political parties to disturb us...

February 27th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Thursday offered to quit politics if charges of the Congress party winning elections with the help of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was proved. 'I am ready to quit politics if anybody can prove that we had links or (were) helped by the ULFA to win elections,' the chief minister told journalists here.

January 12th, 2009 GUWAHATI - The outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) Tuesday suffered a major setback with 42 rebels surrendering along with a huge cache of arms and explosives, officials said. A police spokesperson said four militants of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), including a woman cadre, also laid down arms at a surrender ceremony in western Baksa district.

January 9th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Two rebels were gunned down in separate shootouts with security forces and six apprehended in raids by police Saturday in Assam, a day after a powerful explosion in the state's principal city killed three people and wounded 10, officials said. A police spokesman said two militants of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) were killed in separate shootouts.

January 5th, 2009 GUWAHATI - New Delhi Tuesday extended a fragile ceasefire with the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) by six months. The move ends uncertainty after the Assam government recommended scrapping the truce blaming the outfit for the Oct 30 serial explosions in the state.

January 4th, 2009 AGARTALA - Four top tribal separatist leaders, who surrendered before authorities in Tripura, revealed they were trained by the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in Bangladesh, officials said Monday. A police spokesman said the four militants, two of them women, of the outlawed All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF), surrendered before the police late Sunday.

December 31st, 2008 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). The two potent striking units of the ULFA's 28th battalion, the Alpha and Charlie companies that entered into a unilateral ceasefire June last year announced formation of a parallel organisation.