PM condemns Assam blasts

April 7th, 2009 DIBRUGARH - A day after serial blasts rocked Assam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here Tuesday to address a campaign rally that had to be delayed due to a hailstorm. The venue of Manmohan Singh's rally was flooded and officials said attempts were being made to arrange the public meeting in another place.

April 7th, 2009 GUWAHATI - The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, has cancelled plans to address an election rally in Dibrugarh, Assam, due to inclement weather in the area.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after five terror attacks rocked Assam killing 10 people and injuring over 60, the Indian government Tuesday admitted it had specific inputs of the impending strikes and 'regretted' that the 'adversary' had managed to get away. Security agencies have blamed the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) for the blasts.

April 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has condemned the bombs blasts in Assam on Monday "Prime Minister strongly condemned the bomb blasts at Maligaon area and Dhekiajuli in Assam," said a Press Information Bureau release.

April 6th, 2009 GUWAHATI - At least one person died and four others injured in third bomb blast of the day in Assam's Dhubri district near the Indo-Bangla border at 7:16 evening. Earlier in the day, two incidents of bomb blasts were reported in different places of the State-Maligaon area in Guwahati city and Dhekiajuli, an industrial city of Sonitpur District.

April 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned Monday's serial blasts in Assam and said that his government was committed to thwarting the designs of the terrorists. Manmohan Singh expressed profound grief and shock over the incidents and conveyed his condolences to the near and dear ones of those killed in the blasts.

April 6th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Six people were feared injured in a second bomb blast in the Dhekiajuli area of Sonitpur District this afternoon. The incident occurred soon after a bomb blast had claimed six lives in Guwahati's Maligaon area.

April 6th, 2009 GUWAHATI - At least one person died and four others injured in third bomb blast of the day in Assam's Dhubri district near the Indo-Bangla border at 7:16 evening. Earlier in the day, two incidents of bomb blasts were reported in different places of the State-Maligaon area in Guwahati city and Dhekiajuli, an industrial city of Sonitpur District.

April 6th, 2009 GUWAHATI - The State of Assam was on Monday rocked by four blasts in which eight people killed and over 61 injured. At least three people have been injured with no reports of any casualties in the fourth bomb blast, which has occurred just 14 minutes after third blast was reported in Dhubri district near the Indo-Bangla border.

January 7th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Security forces Thursday gunned down the main accused in the New Year's Day serial bombings that rocked this Assam city, officials said. A police spokesman said 20-year-old Pranjal Deka of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) terror outfit was killed in a gunbattle at Ghilakuti village near Rangiya town, about 70 km west of here.

January 1st, 2009 GUWAHATI - The death toll in the serial bombings in India's northeastern state of Assam has risen to six with one person succumbing to his injuries overnight, officials said here Friday. 'The death toll so far is six, with one of the injured succumbing to his injuries at a hospital,' Himanta Biswa Sarma, Assam government spokesperson and health minister, told IANS.

December 31st, 2008 GUWAHATI - At least 15 people were injured as serial bomb blasts rocked Assam's main city of Guwahati Thursday. One blast occurred in a crowded market at Bhutnath area in the city, injuring six people, and two more blasts took place on a roadside near Birubari area.

December 31st, 2008 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.

December 31st, 2008 GUWAHATI - Five people were killed and at least 20 wounded, six of them critically, when serial explosions rocked busy market places and other areas in Assam's main city of Guwahati on New Year's day Thursday. A police spokesman said two of the blasts took place in crowded markets, while another took place in a roadside dustbin.

December 31st, 2008 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.