Guwahati, Nov 12: Hundreds of students took to streets here on Tuesday to protest against the recent serial blasts in the state that killed over 80 people and left over 300 injured.

The protest was organised under the aegis of the All Assam Students Union (AASU).

The students, holding banners and placards marched down the streets of the city, which was recently rocked by serial blasts.

Blaming the illegal immigrants from Bangladesh for the blasts, the protesters said, they wanted to put pressure to make the government to take action against militants.

Guwahati, Nov. 9 : The Government of Assam has decided to recruit 4,000 more police personnel in all ranks to augment the strength of the force to over 65,000 within the year as part of a counter-terrorism plan.

Revealing this here, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said this augmentation of the police force was necessary as in the last eight years; the state had experienced 605 bomb blasts, each of which had caused considerable devastation to life and property. He also added that police and other security personnel had recovered or diffused over

Guwahati, Nov. 4 : Monday saw a large number of residents here participating in a candlelight march to pray for people who had lost their lives in last week’s 12 serials blasts.

There is shock and anguish among residents.

People emerged out to express their solidarity with the victims.

Guwahati/Shillong, Nov 4 : Assam and Meghalaya seem to be on a developmental spree. Recently, President Pratibha Patil was on a five-day visit to Assam and Meghalaya and inaugurated several infrastructural and developmental projects in the region.

In her first trip to the North East, the President announced many important educational and social projects for the two states.

Guwahati , Nov 4 : The Assam Police today released the sketch of a suspect involved in Thursday''s serial blasts that killed over 80 people and left over 300 injured.

According to police, the sketch tallied 77 per cent with the person suspected to be responsible for the explosion at the Deputy Commissioner''s office compound in Kamrup where the Chief Judicial Magistrate''s court is also located.

Nearly 80 kg of deadly RDX was used in the Guwahati blast alone.

According to officials of the forensic laboratory those explosives were used through three maruti cars planted at the blast site. Each of the cars were loaded with approximately 25 kgs of RDX.

"Such large quantity of RDX were never used to carry out explosions in Assam before as Ammonium Nitrate, with plasticers as propellants and Programmable Time Devices (PTD) were usually used to carry out a blast," said an official involved in the investigation process.

This was the maximum amount of explosive used for blasts in the state.

Earlier the highest amount was 10 kgs used to carry out explosion at Dhemaii during Independence Day celebration in 2004.