A bomb went off in a crowded market in Gauhati, the main city of India’s restive north-east today, killing seven people and injuring 18, an official said.

Suspected separatist rebels triggered four explosions, including one in a crowded market, killing three people and wounding more than 20 in India's restive north-eastern state of Assam, police said today.

Suspected separatist rebels shot and killed 42 migrant workers and wounded 19 others in at least 10 separate attacks in India’s remote northeast, officials said.

Shops and businesses shut down today to protest against two powerful blasts in India’s north-east which killed at least 14 people and wounded another 45.

Two blasts killed at least eight people and wounded 20 others in India’s remote north-east today, police said.

India’s federal government called off a six-week truce today with separatist rebels in Assam and ordered the resumption of military operations in the north-eastern state, the state’s top official said.

A bomb exploded today in a crowded vegetable market in the Indian state of Assam, killing at least four people and leaving eight injured, police said.

Separatist rebels set off bombs and blew up an oil pipeline in north-east India ahead of national day celebrations next week, killing two people and wounding 10, police said today.

Suspected rebels woke up sleeping villagers in north-eastern India and opened fire with automatic weapons, killing six of them and raising the death toll to 63 from three days of violence in a region where dozens of ethnic rebel groups are fighting for separate homelands.

A passenger bus and another bus carrying paramilitary soldiers and their families were blown up in separate explosions in north-eastern India’s insurgency-wracked Assam state today, killing four people and wounding 39 others, officials said.

A bomb exploded during an Independence Day parade in India’s remote northeast today, killing at least 15 people, mostly children, just an hour after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged to fight terrorism.

A bomb blast in a crowded bus killed at least five people and critically wounded 17 today in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.

An Indian rebel leader surrendered to the army today after being uprooted from his base in the neighbouring Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.

HUNDREDS of Hindi-speakers in India’s northeastern state of Assam have started fleeing ethnic violence which has claimed 29 lives in the past week.

SOLDIERS patrolled India’s northeastern state of Assam yesterday after an orgy of killing, looting and arson targeted at settlers from a neighbouring state.