ULFA(I) threatens Assam with 24 bombs, triggers statewide security alert | Guwahati News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The banned ULFA(I) claimed to have planted bombs at 24 locations across Assam on Thursday, prompting security forces to dispatch teams to search for explosives. Despite extensive searches, no bombs have been found so far, according to a senior police officer. ULFA(I) asserted that the bombs failed to detonate due to “technical failure”…

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Minutes after wife’s death, Assam home secretary shoots himself in ICU | Guwahati News – Times of India

GUWAHATI: Assam home and political secretary Shiladitya Chetia, a 44-year-old IPS officer with a President’s gallantry medal to his name, fatally shot himself in the head with his service weapon in the ICU of a private hospital in Guwahati Tuesday, minutes after his wife died there of cancer.Chetia’s wife Agamoni Borbaruah, 40, died at Nemcare…

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