• January 4: Reports say that no important member of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is active in Bangladesh any more as hardcore militant Drishti Rajkhowa also returned to India recently. Sources told The Assam Tribune that Drishti Rajkhowa recently entered India and he is reportedly in the Garo Hills areas of Meghalaya. The hardcore militant is now in touch with the pro-talk group members of the militant outfit and there are possibilities that he, along with his followers in the outfit will join the peace process.

• January 5: The ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa apologizes on behalf of the outfit for the killing of innocent people by the ULFA during its three-decade-long struggle. Interacting with reporters on the Lakuwa School premises in Sivasagar district, Rajkhowa termed the killings "undesired" and "unplanned mistake".
• January 5: A three-member team of the Bodo People's Front (BPF) led by Bodo Territorial Committee (BTC) Chairman Hagrama Mohilary meets Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi and raise five demands before him. The demands are: (1) immediate announcement of a unilateral ceasefire by the Centre with the Anti Talks Faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-ATF), (2) initiation of the peace process with the NDFB, (3) status to the Bodos living in Karbi Anglong, (4) raising Central grants for the BTC up to INR one billion and (5) the setting up of a medical college, a veterinary college and an agricultural university for Bodo area.

• January 6: ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, and ‘deputy commander-in-chief’ Raju Baruah meet the Centre-appointed peace interlocutor PC Haldar to discuss on formal initiation of peace parleys with the Government of India. The outfit formally agrees to sit for talks without any precondition.

• January 7: Eleven journalists of Karbi Anglong district are abducted allegedly by the KLNLF extremists.
• January 7: The UPDS 'general secretary' Saiding-Eh alias Horensing Bey dismisses speculation that the group was planning to float a political party after the outfit is disbanded in the wake of signing the accord. He said that they will continue with their statehood demand in a peaceful and democratic manner and till they achieve their goal, there is no question of the UPDS entering electoral politics.

• January 8: The KLNLF militants, who allegedly abducted 11 journalists on 7 January, took them to a remote place and organised a press meet and put pressure on them to publish certain news in favour of them. The extremists told the newsmen that soon an organisation in the banner of KPLT would be launched. Paramilitary and police forces raided the area where an exchange of fire took place for about an hour. While the extremists managed to flee from the spot, the police rescued the journalists and took them to the Barpather police station from where they were allowed to go to their respective residences.

• January 9: United National Liberation Front (UNLF) chief RK Sanayaima alias Meghen, arrested last month in Bihar by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), confess in New Delhi during interrogation that he had met the elusive 'commander-in-chief' of ULFA during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo in China. • January 10: Sasha Choudhury, foreign secretary, and Chitrabon Hazarika, finance secretary of the proscribed ULFA are granted bail in all the TADA cases registered against them by the Special TADA Court in Guwahati.

• January 10: he 'chairman' of the NDFB-ATF Ranjan Daimary declares a unilateral ceasefire for six months. Within hours of the declaration, BTC chief Hagrama Mohilary sought suspension of operations against NDFB-ATF.

• January 11: ULFA’s foreign secretary Sasha Chaudhury is released from the Guwahati central jail after being granted bail. He said that solving the ULFA problem is not possible under the Constitution of India.

• January 13: Interpol issues a Red Corner notice against Rajen Goyari alias G Rifikhang, 'vice-president' of the NDFB-ATF for his alleged involvement in the use of weapons, explosives and acts of terrorism. Goyari is one of the prime accused of the October 30, 2008 serial blasts and has been chargsheeted in connection with it by the CBI along with 18 others.

• January 18: ULFA releases to media a recent photo of an ULFA training camp, with Paresh Barua and cadres posing with guns and a weapon display in the front.

• January 19: One NDFB-ATF cadre identified as Abinash Brahma (21), is arrested along with three-and-a-half kilograms of RDX and 30 detonators from Bijini in Chirang district.

• January 20: ULFA begins its central executive meeting after about eight years at Choria village in Nalbari district under its ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa. The meeting aimes at working out modalities for opening formal peace talks with the Union Government.

• January 21: ULFA distributes videos to the media showing Baruah dressed in a camouflage fatigue dancing to the tune of Bihu songs along with 100-odd armed cadres in an unknown location. The video also showed the armed cadres shouting slogans in English demanding independence. An e-mail attached with the video footage stated that the ‘slogans are the slogans of the indigenous people, which the Government of India and the so-called peace brokers should realize.’ The e-mail signed by Arundoy Dohotia, self-styled commander of the publicity wing of the outfit, said that the ULFA was formed to fight for regaining “our independence.” “The ULFA is not against political resolution of the Indo-Asom pending political conflict. We are sincere to get our birth right through political dialogue and we are ready to intensify our armed liberation struggle as well.”

• January 25: A powerful bomb planted by unidentified militants on a rail bridge explodes damaging a portion of the tracks and derailing a goods train in North Cachar Hills district.

• January 25: Cadres of KPLT attack a Manipur bound inter State bus coming from Guwahati and heading towards Imphal at Deopani, under Golagat Police Station of Karbi Anglong district. Five passengers, including the driver, identified as one Inao, a woman and a minor boy, identified as David Mate, were injured. One among them, Jisai Masai (12), is reported to be critical.

• January 25: Three MULTA militants, identified as Sabu Ali, Hashmat Ali and Hashimuddin Ali, are arrested by the Security Forces in the Malipara areas of Kamrup district.

• January 27: A senior Congress leader and President of the KJCA, Mohen Ingti, is shot dead allegedly by KPLT, in Bokajan subdivision of Karbi Anglong district.

• January 29: Police arrest six militants of a new outfit named BNPM including two women militants of a new outfit, from various locations in Dhemaji district. According to the Police, all the six have accepted their Maoists links while carrying out activities under the name of the BNPM.

• January 29: SFs arrest an AANLA cadre, identified as Sanjay Kheria, in the Borrengajuli area of Udalguri district.

• February 1: The general council meeting of the ULFA concludes at a makeshift camp of Helacha in Nalbari district. The meeting was attended by the representatives from the all four battalions of the outfit including 709, 109, 27 and 28 battalions besides the central executive body. The general council meeting presided over by chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa was attended by adviser Bhimkanta Buragohain, finance secretary Chitraban Hazarika, foreign secretary, Sasha Chaudhury, deputy commander-in-chief Raju Baruah, cultural secretary Pranati Deka, publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary, women wing chief Kaberi Kachari commander of 709 battalion Hira Sarania, commander of 109 battalion Gulit Das, second commander of 28 battalion Haren Phukan. The other leaders of the outfit who attended the general council meeting are Phanindra Medhi alias Lebu, Sarang Patowary alias Akash Thapa, Plaban Hazarika, Indrajit Medhi, Biju Deka, Mukul Pathak, Nirupam Barman, Runumi Chetia Phukan.

• February 3: One ULFA and one NDFB militant are arrested by the SFs from Zoo Road area in Guwahati and Bharalumukh, respectively.

• February 5: According to ULFA leader Sasadhar Choudhury, ULFA leaders and their cadres, now out on bail, will not participate in the upcoming Assembly elections in Assam.
• February 5: Three ULFA leaders are reportedly arrested by Bangladeshi security forces and later handed over to the Border Security Force. Those handed over include self–styled captain Antu Chaudang and two 'second lieutenants' Pradeep Chetia and Pranjit Saikia alias Saurav.

• February 6: Heavily armed militants kidnap six officials, including three women, of international conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) from the famed Manas National Park in Assam.
• February 6: ULFA militant ‘captain’ Antu Chaudang, ‘second lieutenant’ Pradeep Chetia and Pranjit Saikia - are remanded to ten days’ Police custody by the Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup.

• February 7: The hardline faction of the ULFA headed by commander-in-chief Paresh Barua makes it clear that they would not be a part of the process of talks.

• February 8: Three young women abducted by armed men on Sunday from Manas Tiger Reserve are released. The three women Srabana Goswami, Tarali Goswami, and Pallavi Chakravarty, were released around 6.15 pm at Bengtol close to the India-Bhutan border.

• February 9: ULFA ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa, along with other leaders of the outfit, meets Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi at his Kainadhara residence before leaving for New Delhi to hold talks with Government of India.

• February 10: The eight-member delegation led by chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa held the first formal round with Union Home Secretary G K Pillai and State Chief Secretary Naba Kumar Das. Home Ministry officials described the interaction as an ice-breaking meeting. The meeting decided to constitute the seven-member committee with Joint Secretary (North-east) Sambhu Singh as coordinator. The committee would comprise three representatives from ULFA, two officials each of Government of India and Government of Assam. ULFA is likely to nominate three names shortly. The coordination committee would look into the issues such as setting up of designated camps to house the ULFA cadres and thrashing out the surrender process. The Home Ministry wanted the ULFA leaders not to interfere with any operations conducted by security forces against anti-talk group headed by Paresh Barua, putting Rajkhowa’s group in a dilemma.
• February 10: Meghalaya police arrest the self-styled commander-in-chief of National Democratic Front of Bodoland, Sonitpur district, Haijeng along with five of his accomplices. Haijeng was alleged to have engineered the cold-blooded murder of 21 people in Assam’s Sonitpur district in November 2010.
• February 10: Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi confirms that a splinter group of the anti-talk faction of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) is behind the abduction of six members of World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

• February 12: Aditya Bora, Assam cadre central committee member of ULFA and two of his associates are arrested by security forces during joint combing operation in Saranda forest bordering Orissa-Jharkhand. Huge quantity of explosives, Maoist literature and posters are seized from their possesion. Reports said Bora and his associates were giving arms training to the local Maoists.

• February 13: Lachit Boro, the NDFB ‘commander of the eastern region’, his deputy ‘major’ Mathuram Brahma alias Mudoi are arrested along with three other cadres near Byrnihat, about 90 km from Shillong, in Ri Bhoi district bordering Assam. They admit their involvement in a number of killings and blasts in Assam, besides links with smaller militant groups.

• February 14: A delegation of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) calls on the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in his official residence for an informal discussion.

• February 15: The prime suspect behind some of the deadliest bombings in Assam, Mathuram Brahma alias Mudoi of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) would be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation. Mudoi, a self-styled sergeant major of the NDFB was arrested by Meghalaya police from village Rangsana in Ri-Bhoi district bordering Assam on February 10.

• February 17: Three children and a woman, from the same family, are injured when a bomb stashed inside a schoolbag in their backyard explodes in Goalpara district Thursday, police said. The schoolbag was lying in the backyard of the family's home in Goalpara town. On noticing the bag, the family tried opening it, leading to the explosion.
• February 17: Three volunteers of environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), who had been kidnapped by militants in Assam on February 6, are released from captivity.

• February 22: AASAA president Bosco Chermako is killed near Jacobpur in Kokrajhar district of Assam, bordering West Bengal. No militant group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, but police suspects it to be the handiwork of the anti-talk faction of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).

• February 28: ULFA leaders meet members of SJA at an undisclosed location to discuss the modalities for peace talks.

• March 2: The Bangladesh authorities hand over two more leaders of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to Indian border guards in Meghalaya. "'Sergeant Major' Anupam Sonowal and Robin Biswas alias Rajbhonshi of the ULFA's 28th Battalion were handed over to the Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday (Monday) morning at Dawki," the official told IANS on condition of anonymity.

• March 3: SFs arrest the ‘Foreign Secretary’ of KCP in Guwahati. The arrestee was identified as Khungbum Mayum Anada Singh.

• March 7: UNLF ‘chairman’ Sanayaima alias RK Meghen is produced before the Special Court of NIA at Guwahati.

• March 8: SFs arrest two NDFB militants in New Guwahati area. The militants are identified as Mithisen Swargiary alias Kamal Swargiary and Sanjeev Brahma.
• March 8: SFs arrest two NDFB militants in New Guwahati area. They are identified as Mithisen Swargiary alias Kamal Swargiary and Sanjeev Brahma. Ammunition and electronic detonators are recovered from the possession of the arrested militants.

• March 10: SFs arrest two militants, including Keshav Mahanta, ULFA militant, from Bamuni-maidam area in Guwahati. The other militant is identified as Tapan Kumar Das, whose further detail yet to be ascertained.
• March 10: SFs arrest a Pro-Talk ULFA militant, Arpan Saikia alias Pradan Saikia, from Guwahati on extortion charges.

• March 14: ULFA militants trigger a powerful IED blast at Rajiv Bhavan – the headquarters of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) – around 6-50 pm, injuring five persons, two of them seriously. The ULFA has claimed responsibility for the blast in an email sent to the media. The injured include APCC spokespersons Mehdi Alam Bora and Akshay Rajkhowa, both of whom have been admitted to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH).
• March 14: Eight BSF Personnel are killed and five others injured when their vehicle is ambushed by the anti-talk faction of the NDFB-ATF militants in Kokrajhar district.

• March 15: One Assam Police sub-inspector and two suspected ULFA militants are killed in an encounter at Tongona Majgaon under Kakopathar PS of Tinsukia district.
• March 15: The anti-talk faction of the NDFB claims responsibility of the attack on the BSF party on March 14 at Ultapani in Kokrajhar district. Claiming responsibility, G Bidai, commanding officer of central command of NDFB (AT) said vigorous attacks will be carried out if the security forces carrying out operations against NDFB cadres vicitmise innocent youths.

• March 16: The commander-in-chief of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), Paresh Baruah starts making all out efforts to revitalise the outfit and according to intelligence inputs, he has even “promoted” more than a hundred cadres to keep them happy. Sources revealed that around 120 to 130 members of the ULFA are in Myanmar along with Paresh Baruah.
• March 16: One NDFB militant is killed in an encounter with SFs in Khowla Centre area under Dhekiajuli Police Station along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in Sonitpur district. A US-made pistol and INR 28,000 in cash are recoverd from him.

• March 17: SFs arrest Edmond Marandi alias Prem Mardi alias Munna Murmu, one of the four accused involved in the killing of Bosco Chermaco, the president of All Adivai Students’ Association of Assam. Bosco Chermaco was killed by militants at Jakobpur near Srirampur in Kokrajhar district on February 22, 2011. The arrestee Edmond Marandi is a member of the APA which is a lesser known militant outfit led by Tarzen Mardi and is active in the Udalguri and Sonitpur districts, trying to make its presence felt in the Kokrajhar district.

• March 21: Security Forces arrest four militants from Boragaon area under Gorchuk Police Station in Guwahati. The four arrestees were identified as Bhaskar Kakati, Debojit Deka, Dilip Boro and Bishnu Ram Das. A 9 mm handmade pistol, one magazine and a round of ammunition recovered from their possession.

• March 23: Security Forces arrest four ULFA militants from Pan Bazar area in Guwahati in connection with the Rajiv Bhawan bomb blast case of March 14. Bangladeshi SIM cards, cash worth three thousand rupees, five handsets and international debit cards are recovered from their possession.

• March 27: Security Forces arreste one militant, identified as Kidnali Sagma (25), from Goalpara district and recover 10 detonators from his possession.

• March 28: Security Forces arrest three NDFB militants (anti-talks faction) from Bodopur in Kokrajhar district. The militants are identified as Dala Basumatary, Rindao Basumatary and Sankhan Mushahary.
• March 28: Security Forces kill one KPLT militant in Koilamati locality under Bokajan Police Station in Karbi Anglong district. One A. K- 56 rifle, one magazine and some live ammunition are recovered from the possession of the slain militant.

• March 29: Three hardcore ULFA cadres run away with a 2mm revolver and some rounds of loaded ammunition from the Lakwa residence of Arabinda Rajkhowa, chairman of ULFA. The ULFA members are: Rakesh Tanti of Moran, Ranjit Gogoi of Golaghat and Baba of Bezpathar, Moran. The cadres are believed to have joined the Paresh Barua faction of the ULFA.

• April 2: A 12-hour Assam bandh, called by the hardliners of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), passes off peacefully at 6 pm affecting normal life. The call for the bandh was given by the banned militant group in protest against the visit of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to the State to address election rallies.
• April 2: KPLT militants kill three CRPF personnel and injure four others in an ambush near Rongshuli village in east Guwahati. The dead are identified as Havaldar Devendra Shah, Mithu Singh and a constable Dilip Kumar, reports The Shillong Times.
• April 2: Security Forces arrest five ULFA militants in the Hahkhati area under Dhola Police Station in Tinsukia district. One of the arrested militant is identified as ‘lance corporal’ Bolin Gogoi alias Saurabh Bora (24), who is a known explosives expert in the outfit.

• April 4: Suspected anti-talk faction of NDFB kills three SSB jawan at Lalvita of Longa-Pipsu area under Kachugaon police station in Kokrajhar district. The victims are identified as Subhash Ranjit, Bhagal Kumar and Radhasyam.

• April 20: Reang militants of South Hailakandi abduct Zakir Hussain (25) at gun point from Gollacherra village in Assam-Mizoram border.

• April 21: According to a press release sent by ULFA Publicity in Charge Arunodoi Dohotiya, ULFA has decided in a meeting that all the armed wing members of the ULFA will now function under the command of the mobile headquarters and all the old formations have been dissolved. The release said that with effect from April 21, all the battalions of the ULFA have been dissolved and from now on there would be no battalion commander of the outfit. The meeting also decided to bring in more discipline in the ranks of the outfit and it also decided that the actions of the outfit would be more pro-people.

• April 21: The people of Bherbheri village near the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in Sonitpur district form a defence force on their own to tackle the militants, who swoop down from the hills in adjacent Arunachal Pradesh and indulge in rampant extortion.

• April 22: Security Forces arrest six militants with a hand-made pistol and three magazines from Bongaigaon-Chapaguri Road in front of Lower Assam Hospital in Bongaigaon district. The arrested militants were identified as Mahadev Das (20), Sanjib Dey (20), Sanath Saha (18), Goutam Mahanayak (29), Omar Ali (30) and Albus Salam (35).

• April 23: Security Forces arrest a UDLF militant, identified as Narender Reang (25), along with one German made point 22 pistol and four live rounds from Nibiachara, Karimganj district. The militant is suspected to be involved in abduction of a boy named Abdul Jalil Laskar (14) from Hailakandi district on October 18, 2010.

• April 25: According to the Superintendent of Police Hemanta Bhattacharjee, TSF militants from Tripura are sneaking into Hailakandi to carry out subversive activities like abduction for ransom and extortion.

• April 26: One civilian identified as Bordeka Kro (55) is gunned down by KPLT militants at Karuna Singnar Gaon near the New Life School in Karbi Anglong district.
• April 26: Dhanyaram Reang, the self-styled 'commander-in-chief' of UDLA, claims the responsibility of the abduction of Zakir Hussain Laskar, a small time businessman from South Hailakandi district, arguing that Zakir was involved with their rival outfit, led by slain Atabur Rahman.

• April 28: The 'commander-in-chief' of Rabha Viper Army, Sunil Rabha alias Chinese, is arrested for the third time by Security Forces in Goalpara district. Rabha, who was involved in number of killings, abductions and extortion in Goalpara and part of Kamrup districts, including abduction of a railway official from Dudhnoi in 2010 and was arrested twice within a span of two years.
• April 28: Two women militants belonging to the NDFB-ATF are arrested by Security Forces from the Indo-Bhutan border area in Kokrajhar district. • April 28: BSF jawans arrest two women cadres of the anti-talk faction of the NDFB during a combing operation along the Indo-Bhutan border at Chalakaguri near Ultapani under Kokrajhar PS.
• April 28: Suspected anti-talk NDFB militants kidnap two employees of the Department of Irrigation working in a project at Dikorai near Sijusa in the Assam-Arunachal border.

• April 29: One United Democratic Liberation Army (UDLA, a Reang militant outfit) militant is nabbed bt Lala police in Silchar. The militant is identified as Devendra Tripura.
• April 29: The bullet-riddled body of Sunil Rabha, an 'area commandant' of Rabha Viper Army, is recovered from Bongaon in Goalpara district. He was allegedly killed by his colleagues over sharing of extortion money.
• April 29: Security Forces arrest a UDLA militant, identified as Devendra Tripura (20), from Channighat in Cachar district.
• April 29: Security Forces arrest a suspected militant, identified as Anowar Hussain (32), from Gendabazar under Bijni Police Station in Chirang district.

• April 30: The Paresh Barua Faction of the ULFA lash out at former 'commander' of the outfit's 28th battalion Mrinal Hazarika for declaring that ULFA-PTF militants would make a foray into the coal business for sustenance.

• May 5: Three ULFA militants, including a senior leader, surrender before a joint team of Assam and Meghalaya police at Rongrenggri in East Garo Hills district in Meghalaya. The militants are: self-styled second lieutenant Basanta Goswami, Sarbajeet Konwar and Niranjan Roy.

• May 7: The Sanmilita Jatiya Abhibartan (SJA), which aims at facilitating peace talks between the Centre and the banned ULFA, formally hands over the charter of demands to the ULFA leadership for consideration, which includes the demand for certain amendments in the Constitution aimed at giving the State greater control. The charter of demands, which would be the basis of the peace talks between the Centre and the outfit, would be accepted by the ULFA leadership after discussing it. The 37-page charter of demands, besides featuring the demand for certain constitutional amendments, have encompassed issues like border row, timely and adequate distribution of funds, economic incentives, right over land and natural resources, right over petroleum resources, illegal infiltration and ethnic division. Dr Gohain said that the charter demands constitutional amendments to give the State greater control over its own future through strengthening the State’s power to control the revenues generated here, the natural resources, and the planning process, and ensure a secure demographic situation as well as accelerated balanced development.
• May 7: Two suspected NDFB militants are arrested by police in Golaghat district.
• May 7: Suspected Reang (Bru) militants set free Jakir Hussain Laskar (30), a farmer from their captivity. Jakir was kidnapped by a group of 11 armed militants from his home at Gallachera village of Katlicherra block in Hailakandi district on April 20.
• May 7: Suspected Reang (Bru) militants set free Jakir Hussain Laskar (30), a farmer from their captivity. Jakir was kidnapped by a group of 11 armed militants from his home at Gallachera village of Katlicherra block in Hailakandi District on April 20.

• May 9: 200 SULFA militants of ULFA’s 709th battalion for the first time after their surrender meet the ULFA leadership which convened the meeting at Helacha village in Nalbari district. The 'commander' of the 709th battalion Hira Saraniya invited the surrendered militants for a meeting at the temporary base at Helacha for their cooperation in the peace talks with the Central Government.

• May 10: Security Forces neutralize a KPLT camp at Engjai basti in the upper Chelabor area under Dokmoka Police Station of Karbi Anglong district and arrest a militant and the wife of another militant. 300 gram of explosive materials along with many incriminating documents like extortion noted books, dresses, SIM card, battery, wire are recovered from the militants.
• May 10: Four NDFB militants, identified as Swnwkhwr Basumatary, Birdow Basumatary, Derhasat Basumatary and Chandan Basumatary, are arrested by Security Forces from Besargaon under Bijni Police Station in Chirang district.
• May 10: According to sources from the Home Ministry, the Sheikh Hasina Government is ready to give access to someone from Assam to meet Anup Chetia, the ULFA leader in protective custody in a Bangladeshi jail, reports Telegraph. The source further revealed that following the signal from Dhaka, at least one leader from among the eight engaged in peace efforts with the Centre will visit Dhaka. The purpose is to try and include Chetia, a member of ULFA's permanent standing council, in the talks.

• May 11: Security Forces arrest a NDFB militant in the Nishan village of Goalpara district. The militant is identified as John Sangma (32). One .32 revolver, ammunition and extortion notes signed by platoon commander Khorang Boro of the NDFB demanding INR one million from a businessman are recovered from him.
• May 11: Security Forces arrest four NDFB militants in Chirang district. The militants are identified as Hasad Basumtrary (22), Sankar Basumatary (28), Pratap Basumatary (21) and Swamdwn Narzary (21). One 9 mm pistol, five rounds of ammunition, one country-made pistol, one Chinese grenade, two rounds of 7.62 and five NDFB extortion notes are recovered from them.
• May 11: The Government of India agrees to set up nine rehabilitation centres in various districts in Assam for about 400 ULFA militants who have come over ground but stopped short of surrendering before or declaring ceasefire with the Government. Two rehabilitation centres each in Nalbari and Sivasagar districts and one each in Goalpara, Bongaigaon, Kamrup, Nagaon and Golaghat districts will be set up.

• May 12: Four Rabha Viper Army militants identified as Lelin Rabha (21), Bahadur Rabha (20), Mridul Rabha (22) and Chandan Rabha (30) are arrested by Security Forces in Goalpara district.
• May 12: Militants set free Jamal Uddin Laskar (23), a resident of Samarikona village near Hailakandi in Hailkandi district. Laskar, owner of a computer shop, was abducted by suspected militants from his home on May 6.
• May 12: Five leaders of the top brass of the ULFA, namely Major Bening Rabha, Major Ashanta Baghphukan, Major Jeeban Moran (Senior), Lt Nilu Chakravarty, 2nd Lt Sarat Sarania alias Abhijit Deka along with few others who were missing since the Operation All-Clear by joint operation of Indian and Bhutan Royal Army in Bhutan in 2003 are in secret custody of Bhutan Government.

• May 16: Security Forces arrest two militants in Karbi Anglong district. An Italian-made pistol along with two rounds of ammunition was recovered from them.
• May16: Haflong police and 45 Assam Rifles arrest two members of Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) from Haflong and its adjacent area. The militants are identified as Lamlun Haukip alias Lunun (30) and Mangche Hengna (28).
• May 16: Lala police arrest Nandaram Reang, the self-styled commander-in-chief and one more cadre of United Democratic Liberation Army (UDLA) from the dense forest of Kundanala in South Hailakandi. The UDLA cadre is idenftified as Jagiram Reang.
• May 16 Security Forces arrest two militants in Karbi Anglong district. An Italian-made pistol along with two rounds of ammunition recovered from them.
• May 16: Securitry Forces arrest 'commander-in-chief' of UDLA, identified as Nandaram Reang, from the dense forest of Kundanala in South Hailakandi district.

• May 17: NDFB-PTF demands a clarification from Chidambaram over why ULFA was treated with kid gloves despite being a banned outfit, while rules were different for other militant groups. NDFB 'general secretary' B. Swmkhwr said that they submitted a memorandum to the Centre and hope for a favourable response adding that the outfit was in favour of expediting the dialogue.
• May 17: The body of DHD(J) commander Maurung Dimasa is discovered at Janu Nallah near Sontilla. He was killed by unidentified murderer.

• May 19: Security Forces arrest two militants of NDFB-ATF from Baldova Part-II village in Dhurbi district. The militants are identified as Fazlu Seikh and Razaak Ali.

• May 20: Two ULFA militants identified as Haricharan Barman (25) and Dipak Das (24) are arrested by Security Forces from Borobazar under Bongaigaon Police Station in Dhubri district. The Security Forces recovered one Japan-made revolver and eight rounds of ammunition from them.
• May 20: Police Arrest two militants of Rabha Viper Army. The detained are identified as Dipak Das of Dhaligaon Borpather and Hari Chandra Barman of Mativita, Baghmara.
• May 20: At least 30 hardcore militants of ULFA's ULFA-ATF led by Paresh Baruah, under the leadership of '2nd lieutenants' Pradip Gogoi alias Aaka and Tibrajyoti Baruah and 'sergeant major' Muhim Baruah enter Sivasagar district in Assam from Myanmar through Waksing Basti of Nagaland along Assam Nagaland border of Charaideo sub-division in Sivasagar district. The 30-member group was trying to enter nearby Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Lakhimpur districts for organisational purposes and to secure shelter.

• May 22: The United Democratic People’s Front (UDPF) with support from NDFB(P) calls a 24 hr Assam bandh on May 26 in support of its demand for the creation of a separate Bodoland stateandearly solution to the NDFB problems.

• May 23: Two NDFB militants, identified as Abdus Sattar (28) and Abdul Munna (34), are arrested by Security Forces from Madhusoulmari village under Gouripur police station of Dhubri district. One pistol and one round of ammunition were recovered from them.
• May 23: AASAA vice-president Inus Tuddu was seriously injured when suspected ACMA militants fired at him at Pakriguri in Kokrajhar district.

• May 24: Police arrest Kanu Murmu, the C-in-C of Adivasi Cobra Military of Assam (AVMA) from Gossaigaon near his home in Kokrajhar district following an attack on the vice-president of AASAA.

• May 25: Security Forces arrest two militants of (ACMA, identified as Labin Baskey (20) and Samai Murmu (20), from the outfit's camp at Balajan under Gossaigon Police Station in Kokrajhar district.
• May 25: 'Chairman' of the ULFA-PTF 'Chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa publicly seeks forgiveness for the killing of 10 children and three women in a bomb blast in Dhemaji district on August 15, 2004. Rajkhowa, at a public meeting in Dhemaji town, where 'foreign secretary' Sasa Choudhury, 'political advisor' Bhimkanta Buragohain and 'cultural secretary' Pranati Deka were also present asked for forgiveness from the families of the victims and the people.
• May 25: Rangiya police arrest Francis Murmu, a hardcore Adivasi People’s Army activist hailing from Menoka tea estate near India- Bhutan border.

• May 26: Security Forces arrest a ULFA militant from Merapani area in Golaghat district. The arrestee was identified as Palashjyoti Baruah. Security Forces recover a 9mm pistol, bullets of AK-47 rifles, .22mm pistol, an IED, two mobile handsets and some incriminating documents with ULFA stamps from him.

• May 29: Two MULTA militants, identified as Robel Haque and Birhan Ali, are arrested by Security Forces from Katapur village in Dhubri district.

• May 30: A hardcore NDFB militant is killed by a joint team of Army and police in an encounter at Amlaiguri under Sefunguri PS in Kokrajhar district.

• May 31: Four Santhal Tiger Force Activists – Shew Hasda, 25, Som Hembrom, 22, Modu Hadsa, 30, and Lokon Hadsa, 35, are held by the Army from Shantipur under Chiranfg district. Arms and ammunition are seized from them.

• June 2: Four UNLF militants including a self-styled captain of the outfit are arrested by police from two different locations in Guwahati.
• June 2: Two hardcore ULFA militants – ‘lance corporal’ Abhay Gogoi and ‘sergeant’ Akon Borgohain, are injured in an encounter with security forces in Tinsukia.

• June 3: The Paresh Baruah group of ULFA issues a one-and-a-half month deadline for Shivani Oil and Gas Exploration Services Pvt Ltd to quit Assam. The militants warned armed action if the company does not oblige its dictate.
• June 3: One ULFA cadre, identified as Sonu Tanti alias Susen Tanti, surrenders before the police at Moran.
• June 3: Publicity Secretary of NDFB S. Sanjarang says that the ongoing discussions of the NDFB (Progressive) with the Government’s nominated peace interlocutor seems to bear no fruit as the interlocutor is merely bureaucrates and cannot take any political decision. Therefore NDFB demands the Government of India to involve a favorable political representative from the office of the Prime Minister of India.

• June 4: A senior ULFA leader of Paresh Baruah group is shot dead by a joint team of the Baksa police and 7 Dogra Regiment of Army at Thalkuchi under Borbori PS in Baksa district.

• June 5: Bikash Punya (13), son of Jaising Punya of Nazirating under Digboi PS is kidnapped by ULFA militants.

• June 8: The Karbi People’s Liberation Tigers (KPLT) gun down Narendra Killing, 37, an elected member of the district autonomous council and injure his three security guards at Nambar Adarshagaon in Bokajan sub-division of Karbi Anglong district. An outfit member says the media that the political leader got capital punishment for going “against the interests of the outfit” and threatened “more such incidents” in the district.
• June 8: Bikash Punya (13) of Nazirating under Digboi PS returns home safe. He was kidnapped by ULFA militants on June 5. The kidnappers had to leave the minor as the police intensified opetation in the Lakhipathar forest.

• June 9: Nehrul Islam, a suspected MULTA activist, is arrested by the 3 (NH) Assam Rifles from Chengelimari village under Dhekiajuli revenue circle. Islam is later handed over to police at Borsola police outpost.

• June 11: Akon Sonowal, a hardcore ULFA militant, is killed in an encounter with police in Tinsukia district.
• June 11: Five KLNLF rebels are detained and handed over to police by local people while the rebels attacked and injured seriously a doctor at Bakalighat Primary Health Centre in Howraghat. The rebels are identified as Reang Teron (29), Thedong Kro (35), Thilu Hanse (29), Tharbe Timung (27), and driver Manoj Teron (30) and Kong Rongpi (30).

• June 13: The anti-talk faction of the ULFA threatens to target Indian citizens from various parts of the country residing in Assam if “killing of innocent indigenous people of Assam by Indian occupational forces are not stopped”.

• June 15: Suspected NDFB militants abduct Abdul Gapur Mullah, a junior engineer of the public works department is kidnapped from Gosaigaon sub-division in Kokrajhar district.
• June 15: A six member team of Adivasi National Liberation Army kidnaps Bireswar Saikia, 55, from his residence at Balipathar under Bokajan sub-division in Karbi Anglong district. Saikia serves as the institutional head at Dilaujan Middle English School.

• June 20: Pranab Roy, a Kamatapur Liberation Organization militant from Kamarpara village under Basugaon of Chirang district is arrested by the police.

• June 21: Three NDFB militants are shot dead by a joint team of the army and the Assam Police at Gosaigaon in Kokrajhar district.

• June 27: Two NDFB militants are apprehended by Security Forces at Sialmari area under Salbari sub division in Baksa district. The militants are identified as Rabi Basumatary alias Rangabhija (30) and Udhyachal Daimary (23).

• June 28: The army apprehends a rebel of UDLF (B) identified as Dasharam Tripura (28) of Telkata village under Katlicherra PS of Hailakandi district.

• July 6: Army nabs Isaram Reang, a militant working for Bru Liberation Army.

• July 12: The pro-talk faction of the ULFA declares unilateral and indefinite cease-fire with the Government. The outfit’s chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa said that in the interest of creating a congenial atmosphere for talks, ULFA has declared a unilateral ceasefire. He said that the ceasefire was in accordance with the resolution adopted in the 5th General Council of the ULFA held on February 22, 2011.

• July 13: The ‘area commander’ of the pro-talk NDFB Haila Boro is hacked to death at Nagrijuli Borbali under Tamulpur subdivision in Baksa district.

• July 14: The Army recovers huge number of arms and ammunitation from Sohanpunji, under Ratabari constituency in Karimganj district.

• July 17: A self-styled vice president of Adivasi People’s Army (APA), Silva Orang is arrested by 7 Dogra Regiment and Rongia Police at village Uttarpar near Baganpara under Barbari Police Station in Nalbari district. Silva Orang was directly involved in the bomb explosion on railway track in Rangia. Two other ultras of APA, Stephen Murmu and Sagar Lakra were also arrested by Dogra Regiment jawans assisted by Kumarikata Police at Angarkata near Kumarikata.

• July 17: One NDFB cadre is arrested by the police with the help of local people at Chatrang Baligaon under Gohpur PS.

• July 19: Security forces arrest a NDFB linkman from Rajapara of Kokrajhar district. A handmade single shot AK-47 rifle, ammunition, NDFB leaflets and extortion notes are recovered from the possession of the arrested linkman. • July 19: Security forces arrest a militant of the NDFB Ranjan Daimary faction at Itakhola under Sootea Police Station in Sonitpur district.

• July 20: One militant of the Ranjan Daimary faction NDFB is arrested by security forces from Ambagaon area of Udalguri district.

• July 21: Two All Assam Adivasi National Liberation Army (AANLA) militants are arrested from Daflagarh in Sonitpur district.

• July 23: Four NDFB cadres and an NSCN-K cadre are arrested by the Assam Rifles from the Namtola area along the Assam-Nagaland border in Sivasagar district. • July 24: One cadre of the anti-talk faction of ULFA is arrested from Samdung Tea Estate under Panikhowa Division in Tinsukia district.

• July 26: The Ranjan Daimary faction of the NDFB announces an indefinite ceasefire from August 1 to pave the way for talks with the Centre. In a press release, B. Khwlw Khwlw, the information and publicity secretary of the NDFB’s Daimary faction, said the general meeting of the outfit held on July 25 at its headquarters, unanimously decided to cease all hostilities indefinitely to find a sustainable political solution through dialogue with effect from August 1.

• July 26: NDFB pro-talk faction calls for a 24-hour Assam bandh (General Strike) on July 28 and a 48-hour National Highway and Railway bandh on August 1 in demand for the creation of a separate state of Bodoland.

• July 26: A hardcore ULFA cadre of Paresh Baruah faction, Rittik Hazarika alias Rajib Lahon is apprehended in a joint operation by 44 Assam Rifles and Sonitpur Police at Gingia near Behali under Gingia Police outpost of Biswanath subdivision in Sonitpur district. He was in charge of political wing of ULFA for the North bank.

• July 26: One cadre of the NDFB Ranjan Daimary faction is arrested by security forces from Ratanpur area under Tangla Police Station in Udalguri district.

• July 27: One ULFA militant and a linkman are arrested by security forces in Tinsukia district.

• July 29: Two NDFB militants are arrested from Koilamoila Agrong area under Bijni Police Station in Chirang district. One pistol, one grenade, 10 live ammunition and 3 NDFB demand notes were recovered from them.
• July 29: Security forces arrest two MULTA militants from Rangamati area of Dhubri district.

• July 30: NIA court in Guwahati rejects the bail petition of jailed DHD-J 'chairman' Jewel Garlosa and 'commander-in-chief’ Niranjan Hojai, in connection with the alleged misappropriation of money from the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council in 2009.

• July 30: A ULFA militant is arrested in a joint operation by Police and the Army from Sakadol village under Mushalpur Police Station in Baksa district.

• July 31: A central delegates’ meet of the pro-talk ULFA is held at the designated camp of the outfit’s 709 battalion at Moiradanga village in Nalbari district in order to expedite the much-awaited talk process between the ULFA and the Central Government. The delegates’ meeting, presided over by ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, decided to send a delegation by August 10 to mount pressure on the Central Government for the talk. The delegates’ meet further approved of the charter of demands prepared by the Sanmilita Jatiya Abhibartan and those approved by the central executive of the ULFA.

• August 2: The 48 hour highway-railway bandh given by the pro-talk faction of the NDFB on August 1-2 passes away peacefully with no reports of any violence from anywhere. The bandh was called to press the government for the creation of a separate Bodoland and an early solution to the peace process.

• August 3: According to reports from PTI, ULFA leader Anup Chetia may be soon deported to India from Bangladesh, ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Dhaka in early September.
• August 3: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram says that the Centre has opened back channel communication with the Ranjan Daimary faction of the NDFB and is in the process of fixing the pre-condition for starting dialogue.
• August 3: The breakaway anti-talk faction of the DHD - Dimasa National Democratic Front (DNDF), lays down arms in a surrender ceremony at Haflong in Dima Hasao district. Of the 27 members of the outfit, only 19 participated in the surrender ceremony, while the remaining eight had allegedly gone out of the district to chalk out a post-surrender “strategy”. The surrendered cadres include, its chairman, Layung Dimasa and commander-in-chief Camera Dimasa. The team laid down 17 different types of arms and ammunition, including AK-series rifles, 1400 live ammunition and 11 grenades.
• August 3: According to officials of Manas Tiger Reserve, suspected militants of the NDFB-Ranjan Daimary faction are preventing the relocation of people from the Panbari area of the reserve, thus creating a spanner in the Centre’s plans to clear the core area of human habitation.
• August 3: Security force arrest a suspected NDFB militant from Godajuli village under Dhekiajuli police station in Sonitpur district. Another NFDB cadre was arrested from Chaitanpur under Salbari police station in Baksa district.

• August 4: A seven-member delegation of the ULFA, led by its chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, leaves for New Delhi to present the initial draft of their charter of demands to the Union Government.
• August 4: One ULFA cadre is arrested by security forces from Jengraimukh in Majuli in Jorhat district.
• August 4: One militant of DHD-Nunisa faction is apprehended by the security forces while extorting money from bamboo cutters at Ainachens under Joypur police station in Cachar district.

• August 5: ULFA hands over its charter of demands to Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram and Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi in New Delhi. The charter, which they called ‘Framework of Charter for Negotiations to Resolve the Issues between Assam and India’, was submitted by a seven-member delegation of ULFA, led by its chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa. The 12 broad groupings under which negotiations are proposed to start are: • Grounds for ULFA’s struggle and their genuineness. • Status report on missing ULFA leaders and cadres • Constitutional and Political arrangements and Reforms-including protection of the identity and material resources of the local indigenous population of Assam. • Financial and Economic Arrangements, including settlement of all royalties on mines/minerals including oil on a retrospective compensatory basis and rights of independent use for a sustainable economic development in future. • Illegal migration - its effect/impact and required remedies including sealing of international borders, river patrolling, development of a native force to man the borders. • Ethnic issues - problems and constitutional restructuring including settlement of border disputes and removal of encroachment. • Education and Health-reforms as required to preserve the identity of the people of Assam and benefits. • Agricultural and Rural Development. • Land and Natural resources - including right of natives to the land, flood control and management. • Industrial Growth - Development of infrastructure, removal of transport bottleneck, development of entrepreneurial skill and efficiency in labour, availability of credit, infusion of capital-leading to industrial take off and right to engage in specific relationship with foreign countries for promotion of mutual trade, commerce and cultural relationship. • Restoration, protection, preservation and spread of indigenous culture of Assam in all its variety. • Amnesty, re-integration and rehabilitation of ULFA members and affected people.

• August 6: The anti-talk faction of the ULFA, headed by Paresh Barua, rejects the charter of demands placed before the Government of India by the leaders of the pro-talk faction of the outfit on August 5, 2011. The outfit’s publicity wing in-charge, Aronodoi Dohotiya, said that the charter of demands was against the aims and objectives if the ULFA. The outfit also vowed to continue its fight for sovereignty of Assam.
• August 6: The pro-talk faction of the ULFA is likely to start the process of meeting leaders of all major national political parties soon.

• August 7: The pro-talk faction of the ULFA, in a statement, says that Paresh Barua alone cannot determine the future of the ULFA and his words alone so not reflect the constitution of the organization. The statement further said that the decision to hold talks with the government of India was taken as per the provisions of the constitution of the ULFA and the formal talks started with the ULFA submitting its charter of demands. Opposition to the talks by Paresh Barua would not affect the peace process, the statement further said.
• August 7: Personnel of the 8 Maratha Regiment of the Army and Rangiya police, in a joint operation, apprehends four ULFA linkmen from Rangiya in connection with an extortion case.

• August 8: According to sources in Minsitry of Home Affairs, no leader of the pro-talk faction of the ULFA will be allowed to carry weapons and those having security threat will be provided PSOs for their protection. They also said that the pro-talk faction would have to surrender weapons immediately after the signing of the agreement of suspension of operations.

• August 9: ULFA Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa denies of a split in the outfit and claims that commander-in-chief of ULFA, Paresh Barua, also wanted a solution to the 32-year-old conflict. He says that Paresh Baruah, as the ‘commander-in-chief’ of the organization, may want a military solution and he as the head of the organization wants a political solution but both of them want a solution to the conflict. He also said that he went to Pakistan when Operation Bajrang was launched in Assam in 1990 but denied the group was backed by Islamic fundamentalists of that country.

• August 10: In an e-mail to the media, commader-in-chief of the ULFA, Paresh Barua says that media reports quoting ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa that his outfit procured weapons and taken the help of the Pakistan government and the ISI were not true. He claimed the allegation to be completely baseless and said such reports have been made with a purpose.
• August 10: The BSF recovers two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and six rounds of revolver cartridges, a .9mm pistol, a loaded magazine and seven rounds of ammunition from a bus on the NH-31 at Alomganj under Gossaigaon police station in Dhubri district. The bus was going to Goalpara from Dhubri.

• August 11: 12 militant outfits of the Northeast region jointly give a call to boycott the Independence Day celebrations. The outfits which gave the call for Independence Day boycott are—HNLC, KLO, KYKL, KCP, NLFT, PREPAK, PREPAK (pro), RPF, TPDF, anti-talk faction of the ULFA, UNLF and UPPK.

• August 11: ULFA general secretary Anup Chetia alias Golap Baruah, presently in Bangladesh’s custody, is likely to be handed over to India after August 15, said intelligence sources. The handing over of Chetia will take place at a secret location along the India-Bangladesh border.
• August 11: A less known militant outfit – Indo-Mongolian Bodoland Democratic Front (IMBDF) – claims that the arms and explosives that were recovered by the BSF from a bus at Alomganj in Dhubri district on August 10 belonged to them. The outfit said it was transporting the materials to Guwahati.

• August 12: Security forces recover a powerful IED weighing almost 5 kgs from a person from from Chirang district at Pancharatna railway station when he was travelling by 15648 Guwahati-bound Kamakhya -Puri express train. The accused is suspected to be a NDFB (anti-talk) cadre and the IED was to be delivered at Bongaigoan to a pro-talk ULFA militant.
• August 12: A powerful IED weighing around 3 kg is recovered from the house of Dhula Ram Rabha (42) at Hatimura village under Dudhnoi police station in a joint operation by security personnel. The security personnel apprehended the main accused Dhula Ram Rabha and according to the police sources, initial interrogation revealed that the accused is suspected to have links with Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) and Rabha Viper Army (RVA).
• August 12: The Gauhati High Court grants conditional interim bail for a period of four months to DHD (J) chairperson Jewel Garlosa and its ‘commander-in-chief’ Niranjan Hojai in connection with two National Investigation Agency (NIA) cases relating to diversion of public funds for militant activities and abetting waging of war against the Union Government. August 12: Two ULFA cadres are arrested by the security forces from Jorhat and Sivsagar district.

• August 13: One person is killed and 11 others injured when suspected KPLT militants fire at vehicles plying along the NH-37 at Panbari near Kaziranga National Park.

• August 19: Seven United Democratic Liberation Army (UDLA) militants are gunned down and an Army Major is seriously injured in an encounter in remote Gutguti in the Ratabari police station area in Karimganj district.

• August 23: According to security sources, the hard line faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), headed by Paresh Baruah manages to procure a huge consignment of arms and explosives. As per intelligence inputs, the ULFA faction recently procured at least 400 weapons including AK series rifles, small arms including M-20 pistols and explosives including remote controlled improvised explosive devices.
• August 23: According to an estimate of the Home Ministry, there are 79 insurgent groups including splinter factions, which are active across six northastern States. A detailed list of the militant outfits furnished by Minister of State for Home Affairs M Ramachandran in the Lok Sabha reveals that Manipur has the highest number of 50 active militant outfits in the region including 22 valley-based and 27 hill-based outfits. One militant outfit, Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) has 12 factions, while Kuki National Front has four factions. While Assam has five active militant outfits including ULFA, NDFB, DHD, UPDS and KLO, neighbouring Meghalaya has nine insurgent outfits. In Arunachal Pradesh, apart from the two factions of NSCN, another militant outfit, National Liberation Front of Arunachal has reared its head in the State. Barring Sikkim, rest of all the northeastern States are now affected by militancy. Mizoram now has three militant groups including Hmar Peoples Convention (HPC D), Hmar National Liberation Front (HNLF) and Kamatapur Liberation Organization (KLO). Nagaland and Tripura have six and three militant outfits respectively.
• August 23: In a written answer to a question in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran says that top leaders of some insurgent groups of the Northeast have a nexus with neighbouring countries like China and Myanmar. According to government sources, while Chinese intelligence agencies liase with insurgent leaders, the Chinese government may actually be in the dark. The involvement of China and Myanmar with Northeast insurgents has been put on record following fresh reports of meetings between Chinese intelligence agencies and top leaders of the Manipur-based People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and United National Liberation Front (UNLF).

• August 25: Dilip Nunisa, chairman of the DHD, says that the Centre has referred the outfit to the state government to get its issues resolved. The Nunisa-led team of DHD had talks with interlocutor P.C. Haldar in New Delhi on August 20 and had met joint secretary Shambhu Singh on August 23. The Centre, however, ruled out the demand of DHD of a separate state.

• August 27: The signing of the formal ceasefire agreement with the pro-talk faction of the ULFA is scheduled to be held on September 3 in New Delhi. According to Home Ministry sources, the ULFA leaders have been invited for tripartite talks to New Delhi. The finalization of the ground rules would see signing of the formal suspension of operation with the outfit.
• August 27: An ULFA linkman is arrested when he illegally entered from Bangladesh after crossing over the border at Gopinathkilla in Meghalaya.

• August 28: The Paresh Barua faction of the ULFA claims through an e-mail that it had killed two Army jawans and injured many others near the Daisa Army camp at Doomdooma on August 26.
• August 28: According to highly placed sources, security forces will neither lower guard nor suspend operations against the Ranjan Daimary faction of the NDFB despite the outfit declaring an indefinite unilateral ceasefire from August 1, 2011. The source also informed that before sitting for talks with the government, the outfit will have to show its sincerity by giving up the path of violence, place its demand within the framework of the constitution and sort out its differences with the pro-talk faction of the NDFB.

• August 29: Sessions court in Guwahati frames charges against 14 accused in the October 30, 2008 serial blasts, including NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary.

• August 30: The All Adivasi National Liberation Army (AANLA) declares unilateral ceasefire with effect from September 1, 2011.

• August 31: According to highly placed official sources in New Delhi, the Maoist rebel groups have started eyeing the Northeast region yet again after managing to regain their bases in Jangalmahal area of West Bengal and senior Maoist leader Kishenji has already made efforts to establish links with the anti-talk faction of the ULFA. Sources said that according to information available, some "modules" of the Maoist groups have started working in the Northeast region, particularly in Assam.
• August 31: The hard line faction of the ULFA, headed by Paresh Baruah, opposes the proposed government move to exchange land between India and Bangladesh to resolve the boundary dispute between the two countries.

• September 1: The pro-talk faction of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) sends a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, through the Deputy Commissioners of Chirang and Bongaigaon districts after staging a sit-in demonstration at Kajalgaon stadium field in Kokrajhar district. The memorandum stated various issues concerning Bodoland.
• September 1: An ULFA team comprising its ‘foreign secretary’ Sasadhar Choudhury, ‘deputy commander-in-chief’ Raju Baruah and ‘finance secretary’ Chitraban Hazarika leaves for New Delhi to hold the second round of talks with the Centre.
• September 1: Two cinnamon businessmen are shot dead by suspected militants at Chir Engti village under Samelangso police station in Karbi Anglong district. The police suspect involvement of the Karbi People’s Liberation Tiger (KPLT) in the carnage.

• September 3: A tripartite agreement for suspension of operations (SoO) is signed between the central government, Assam government and the ULFA in New Delhi. The Government of India was represented by the Joint Secretary (North-East), Ministry of Home Affairs, Shambhu Singh, while Government of Assam was represented by the Home Commissioner Jishnu Barua and Addl. Director General of Police Khagen Sharma. ULFA was represented by Shashadhar Chaudhuri, Chitraban Hazarika and Raju Barua. The period for ceasefire has not been specified and the SoO would continue. ULFA has agreed to confine their cadres to the designated camps but they requested the Centre to re-christen them as ‘Naba Nirman Kendras’. The ground rules also talk about banning on collection of taxes and extortion.
• September 3: Talks with Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) remains inconclusive, as the Centre failed to break the logjam over the militant outfit’s demand for a separate State. The talks centered on the charter of demands submitted by the KLNLF, which includes the demand of creation of a separate State. Though the militant outfit expressed its willingness to support creation of an autonomous State, the Centre offered an autonomous council.
• September 3: Security forces arrest one cadre of Manipur-based militant outfit PLA in Guwahati.

• September 4: According to intelligence sources, ULFA’s Paresh Barua faction has recently received a huge cache of arms from China and there are serious apprehensions in the intelligence and security establishments that the outfit may sell these weapons to the Maoists.
• September 4: Security forces arrest one cadre of Manipur-based militant outfit PLA from Birubari area in Guwahati.

• September 5: One cadre of the ant-talk faction of the ULF is apprehended in a joint operation by 8 Garhwal Rifles and Kakopathar police at Dirak in the area of Hunjan gate in Tinsukia district.

• September 7: In an email sent to media houses, the anti-talk faction of the ULFA claimed that Myanmar security forces, with the assistance of Indian security forces, attacked the camps where its cadres and other ‘friendly rebel groups’ of the Northeast were taking shelter.

• September 8: In a press release, the anti-talk faction of the ULFA says that the Government of India paid substantial amounts of money to the neighbouring countries to launch attack on the ULFA’s bases. The release said that the Government of India gave financial assistance of Rs 20,000 crore to Myanmar along with weapons to take action against the “revolutionary groups”. The Government of India also promised Rs 100 crore more if Paresh Baruah can be killed within September, the ULFA alleged.
• September 8: The Myanmar Army has launched an operation in the Taga area where most of the militant groups of Northeast including the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)’s anti talk faction have their bases.

• September 9: The commander-in-chief of the anti-talk faction of the ULFA, Paresh Barua is said to have been injured during an attack on one of the ULFA camps in Myanmar by the Myanmarese security forces.

• September 10: Ten militants of the Ranjan Daimary faction of the NDFB surrenders along with arms and ammunitions at Sonitpur.

• September 11: Media reports that commander-in-chief of the ULFA, Paresh Baruah was injured in a military offensive by the Myanmarese junta have been denied by the Indian intelligence agencies.

• September 12: NSCN-Khaplang faction says that anti-talk ULFA commander-in-chief, Paresh Barua is in Yunnan province of China and not in Myanmar, as it was said in some media reports.
• September 12: The Karbi militant outfit, United Peoples Democratic Solidarity (UPDS), is likely to sign an agreement with the Centre at the Karbi Anglong district headquarters of Diphu this month.

• September 14: An 18 member ULFA team led by its chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa made a courtesy visit to GPRN/NSCN camp near Dimapur and met the top leaders of the Naga outfit as a gesture towards building better understanding between the people of the two neighbouring state. The ULFA team expressed solidarity to the Naga people for exhibiting great courage in undertaking the Naga re-conciliation process, a joint statement issued by the two organisations said after the meeting at Khehoi camp of NSCN led by Khole Konyak and N Kitovi Zhimomi.

• September 15: The Paresh Barua faction of the ULFA has recruited 105 new cadres from various parts of Assam and they are undergoing training in Myanmar since July 2011. This was disclosed by an anti-talk ULFA cadre who joined the pro-talk faction of the outfit on September 3.

• September 16: Two cadres of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of Manipur are arrested by the security forces from Six mile and Lachit nagar areas of Guwahati.

• September 17: A patrolling party of the Border Security Force (BSF) arrests two ULFA militants along with four linkmen near Kachuadogari in West Garo Hills in Meghalaya when they were trying to sneak into India from Bangladesh.

• September 23: Dimasa militant outfit, Dima Halam Daogah, decides to climb down from its demand for an autonomous state and settle for a territorial council instead. This was informed by DHD chief Dilip Nunisa, who also said that the outfit is preparing its design for the proposed territorial council that it wishes to present at the final round of talks in New Delhi by the second week of October.

• September 25: According to media reports, quoting intelligence sources, the anti-talk ULFA chief Paresh Baruah invested millions of US dollars in several Bangladeshi companies having interests in real estate, shipping, textile, power and medical care. In a classified report, security agencies also said he receives USD 1.5 million every quarter as remittances from these businesses and an additional USD 5,00,000 every quarter through Western Money changer from other sources.
• September 25: Police and CRPF jawans arrests two AANLA cadres in a joint operation from Japaubari village under Bishwanath Chariali police station.
• September 25: Two NDFB cadres are caught by members of the public when they came to extort money from one person of Barsimuhuguri village in Barama.
• September 25: One ULFA cadre and a linkman is arrested by Sivasagar police from Mathurapur area of Sivasagar district and recovered two high power explosive devices from their possession.

• September 29: The Guwahati city police arrests two PLA cadres of Manipur from the Dispur area of the city and recovers a hand grenade from their possession.

• October 7: One ULFA cadre is arrested from Jalukbari in Guwahati where he had gone to deliver an extortion note.

• October 8: One AANLA cadre is apprehended by the 315 Field Regiment at Tankibasti in Udalguri district.

• October 9: One Rabha Viper Army (RVA) cadre is arrested by security forces from Goalpara district.

• October 13: Centre holds discussion with DHD (N) faction on the charter of demands submitted by the outfit. The meeting was chaired by Joint Secretary (Northeast) Shambhu Singh.
• October 13: Senior Dimasa militant leader James Dimasa, leader of DHD (James faction), is gunned down by suspected militants at Haflong in Dima Hasao district.
• October 13: Unknown miscreant burn down several houses in Jebra village in Haflong in Dima Hasao district. The village is inhabited by people of Dimasa community.

• October 14: The Centre refuses general amnesty to Jewel Garlosa and Niranjan Hojai of DHD-J. Centre also asked the Nunisa and Jewel faction of the DHD to sort out their differences.

• October 15: In a statement, the ant-talk faction of the ULFA says that if the ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa signs any accord with the Government of India by going against the principles of the outfit, they would not accept the same.
• October 15: A huge cache of explosives are recovered by 44 Assam Rifles at 10th mile on Balipara-Tawang road in Sonitpur district. The recovered explosives include 10 Kg of RDX, 200 grams gunpowder, 500 grams other explosives, 45 detonators, 14 fuses and 18 metre wire.

• October 16: Miscreants burn down at least 16 houses of Gaijen village under Haflong police station and killed one person besides injuring three other persons of the village. Hill Tiger Force (HTF), a local militant outfit, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
• October 16: One ULFA cadre is apprehended by the personnel of 8 Maratha Light Infantry and Gohpur police from Tetonpukhuri village under Gohpur police station.

• October 19: In a joint operation by CRPF and Guwahati City police, a cache of sophisticated arms and ammunition are recovered near Sonapur area in Kamrup district from a Tata Sumo coming from Karbi Anglong towards Guwahati. Three persons have been arrested in this connection.

• October 20: According to the police, members of NSCN-IM are directly involved in the recent clashes in Dima Hasao district. Police also said that the NSCN-IM helped the formation of newly created militant outfit, Hill Tiger Force (HTF) and also provided them with weapons and training.
• October 20: One top leader of the ULFA, Akash Thapa alias Sarango Patowary is apprehended by the BSF at Berangpara on the Indo-Bangladesh border.
• October 20: Three ULFA cadres are apprehended by the BSF near Chandaboi while they were entering India illegally from Bangladesh.

• October 21: The proposed signing of the accord between UPDS and the Centre hits a wall, with the Centre declining to set up a neutral interim administration after dismantling the existing autonomous council, as is demanded by UPDS.

• October 23: Police recovers two consignments of arms and ammunitions and arrests six persons including a Bodoland People’s Progressive Front (BPPF) woman leader, in this connection. The first haul was made in the Bagori area of Kaziranga National Park while the other consignment was seized on the Kaliabhomora Bridge in Tezpur in Sonitpur district. The arms were allegedly meant for the Ranjan Daimary faction of the NDFB.
• October 23: Two NDFB and one MULTA cadre are arrested in a joint operation by the Army and police from I Love You bazaar under Serfanguri police station in Kokrajhar district.
• October 23: One AANLA and one NDFB cadre are apprehended by the Army from Santipur under Harisinga police station in Udalguri district.

• October 25: Formal round of political dialogue between ULFA and the government takes place in New Delhi. Tripartite talks were held between ULFA, the central government and the government of Assam on the basis of the charter of demands submitted by the outfit. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Union Home Secretary RK Singh. After the talks, the Home Ministry in a formal communication stated that the Government of India representative has been requested to hold meetings with the Chief Secretary, Assam and ULFA leaders on their demands regularly. ULFA leaders told that this round of talk was limited on fixing the agenda for the political dialogue with the Government of India.
• October 25: One NDFB cadre is arrested by the Government Railway Police from the Dn Kamrup Express in Guwahati Railway station.
• October 25: One cadre of the anti-talk ULFA faction surrenders at the headquarters of 25 Sector Assam Rifles at Lekhapani in Tinsukia district.

• October 26: Two Rabha Viper Army (RVA) cadres are apprehended by the security forces from Borjuli village under Agia police station in Goalpara district.

• October 28: Three Karbi Peopl’s Liberation Tiger (KPLT) cadres are apprehended by state police and 3rd Jammu and Kashmir Rifles from three separate places in Karbi Anglong district.

• October 31: Governor of Assam, J.B. Patnaik says during the Governor’s Conference convened by the President in New Delhi on October 29-30, that there is a nexus between the Paresh Barua faction of the ULFA and the Naxals and there is a possibility that the Paresh Barua group may help the Naxals with weapons.
• October 31: During the Governor’s Conference convened by the President in New Delhi on October 29-30, it was reported that the Paresh Baruah faction of ULFA have acquired a large number of sophisticated weapons like T-81, Heckler and Kolts, Chinese bottle grenades and RCIED. The report also said that Paresh Baruah has set up his camp at a place called Tagugumsa on China-Myanmar Border in Yunan Province. The Ranjan Daimary group of NDFB has set up their hideouts in Myanmar in collusion with NSCN(K) and some Meitei militant groups. NDFB (Ranjan) has also developed considerable clout across the entire State borders along Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya. The Governors Conference was reported to have discussed these new developments. It was also reported that there have been hectic efforts on the part of the Adivasi leadership of all the outfits like Birsa Commando Force, Adivasi Cobra, Santhal Tiger Force and Adivasi People’s Army to unite into one platform to counter Bodo unification drives undertaken under the auspices of Bodo National Convention. One Karbi extremist group based in Nongpoh, Meghalaya is spreading wings in the name of United Karbi Peoples’ Front.
• October 31: Paresh Barua, commander-in-chief of the anti-talk faction of the ULFA, says in statement that any discussion with the Government without sovereignty as the core issue would not solve any problem.
• October 31: UPDS holds a round of discussion with Joint Secretary (Northeast) Shambhu Singh and interlocutor P.C. Haldar in New Delhi. After the meeting, UPDS chief, Haren Singh Bey says that their demands have been met and they are now ready to sign the peace accord.
• October 31: Two ULFA cadres are apprehended in a joint search operation by the Army and the police in Goalpara district.

• November 1: The hard line faction of the ULFA headed by Paresh Baruah has threatened to target political leaders and others who have been working against the interests of the people of Assam. In a statement released to the media, ULFA called upon the people of Assam to maintain distance from the security forces, vehicles and residences of the forces, members of colonial political parties who have been creating division among the greater Assamese society, corrupt persons, black marketers and the companies from outside who have been looting Assam for years as those can be possible targets of the ULFA.

• November 2: Two NDFB cadres are arrested by Udalguri police and Assam Rifles personnel from Rowta Chariali in Udalguri district.

• November 3: The security forces of Bangladesh start raiding the places used as hideouts by the leaders and cadres of ULFA looking for weapons.

• November 4: NDFB Ranjan Daimay faction’s ‘education secretary' B. Naijab states that the peace talk between the NDFB and the Government could not be accelerated without the release of NDFB leader Ranjan Daimari.
• November 4: Kuki Liberation Organization / Kuki Liberation Army (KLO/KLA) declares unilateral ceasefire within Assam.

• November 5: Suspected ULFA militants kill a businessman at Bamunbari in Dibrugarh district.

• November 8: Security forces recover three IEDs on railway tracks between Mahur and Paiding stations in Dima Hasao district. Hill Tiger Force (HTF) claims responsibility for planting the bombs.

• November 9: One KPLT militant is killed in an encounter in Mohen Egti village of Shinghason hill track in Karbi Anglong district.

• November 11: Police arrests one anti-talk ULFA cadre from Lachit Nagar area in Guwahati.

• November 12: Highly-placed sources in the Ministry of Home Affairs say that the Indian government has received concrete evidence of presence of Paresh Barua, commander-in-chief of ULFA, in the Yunan province of China.

• November 13: Haflong police and Army arrests nine members of Hill Tiger’s Force (HTF) including its commander-in-chief Benjamin Jate and finance secretary Zazoulien Khawbung along with a huge quantity of arms, ammunition and explosive materials in Arda village, 36 km from Haflong in Dima Hasao district.
• November 13: Guwahati Police arrest an ULFA cadre from Sijubari in Haigarh area of Guwahati.
• November 13: Army seizes a huge cache of ammunition from the possession of a linkman of ULFA and NSCN (IM) near Joypur under Naharkatiya police station in Dibrugarh district.

• November 14: Two militants of the Manipur-based militant group People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are arrested from Lokhra area under Garchuk police station in Guwahati.

• November 15: A joint team of Army and police apprehends a cadre of he Ranjan Daimary faction of NDFB from Saragaon village under Serfanguri police station in Kokrajhar district.
• November 15: CRPF arrests three cadres of Karbi People’s Liberation Tiger (KPLT), including its ‘foreign secretary’ from Morigaon.

• November 16: Police recovers five bottle grenades from the backyard of a resident of Laguabari village under Demow police station in Sivsagar district.
• November 16: One KPLT militant is arrested by police from Diphu in Karbi Anglong district.
• November 16: One cadre of NDFB Ranjan Daimary faction surrenders in front of Udalguri DC.

• November 17: A joint team of Arunachal Pradesh police and troops of the 26 Maratha Regiment shoot dead three ULFA cadres in an encounter in Arunachal Pradesh’s Lohit district near Namsai along Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.

• November 18: Three PLA cadres are arrested by Guwahati city police from Dispur in Guwahati.

• November 19: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says that the Assam government would oppose any arrangements that could undermine the state’s interests and that the Centre would take Assam into confidence before any move to create a supra- state body for Nagas.

• November 20: The Paresh Barua faction of the ULFA announces that a new 16-member Central committee of the outfit would be formed soon. The new body would not have an executive body but a three member permanent committee and there is possibility of expanding the same committee in a later date. The faction has decided to appoint three prominent persons, who support the demand for sovereignty of Assam, as political advisers. The faction also announces that if the ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa or any other leader returns to the outfit, due honour would be given to them.
• November 20: Police arrests two ULFA linkman and recovers 15 kg of explosives from Luthurashan village under Sonari police station in Sivasagar district.

• November 21: The pro-talk faction of the ULFA terms the decision to form a new central committee of ULFA by the Paresh Barua faction as ‘unconstitutional’.
• November 21: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says that the Karbi Anglong-based insurgent outfit UPDS would sign a peace pact with the Centre on November 25.
• November 21: Two ULFA militants are killed in an IED blast when they tried to plant the bomb in the railway track in between Bhojo and Longpotia railway stations under Sonari police station within Tinsukia Railway Division.

• November 22: A KPLT cadre is killed and two arrested in an encounter with a joint team of security forces at Kro village of Gabar hill near Anjukpani under Dokmoka police station in Karbi Anglong district.
• November 22: The Centre formally confirms that several insurgent outfits of Northeast including ULFA, NDFB and both factions of NSCN have camps in Sagaing province, Chin and Kachin state of Myanmar.

• November 23: The anti-talk faction of the ULFA announces its new 16 member central committee headed by Dr Abhijit Barman, who will be the acting chairman, while, the commander in chief Paresh Baruah will also be the acting vice chairman of the outfit. Paresh Baruah has got the additional responsibility and his rank in the outfit has been upgraded from "colonel" to "Major General". The new committee was formed in the mobile military headquarter of the outfit. As per the list, senior ULFA member Jiban Moran will be the assistant general secretary and acting finance secretary while, Drishti Rajkhowa and Bijoy Das will be the deputy commander in chief. Michael Deka Phukan and Partha Gogoi will be the assistant finance secretaries, while, Montu Saikia, Nayan Medhi, Salim and Azhar Ali will be the assistant organizing secretaries. Samiran Bhuyan, Sagar Topno and Jyotirmoy Bharali would be the assistant cultural secretaries and Arunodoi Dohotiya will be the assistant publicity secretary. Dr Pranmoy Asom will be the assistant foreign secretary of the outfit.
• November 23: Pro-talk faction of the ULFA described the move of the anti-talk faction of ULFA to from a new central committee as unconstitutional, as it went against the outfit’s basic tenets. It said that Paresh Barua cannot nominate a new committee without approval by ULFA’s general council and nor can he effect any changes in the ranks of the organization.
• November 23: Two linkmen of Manipur-based militant outfit PLA are arrested in Guwahati.

• November 25: Karbi insurgent outfit United People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) signs peace accord with the Centre and Assam Government, paving the way for restoration of peace in the troubled hill district. The Centre declared a package worth over Rs 2000 crore, while the new set-up would be rechristened as ‘Karbi Anglong Autonomous Territorial Council’ (KAATC).
• November 25: Three AANLA cadres surrender to 8 Garhwal Rifles of the Army at Rupai Army Camp in Sibasagar district. The cadres handed over three 7.65mm pistols along with seven 7.65mm rounds.
• November 25: Police recover a body, suspected to be of the abducted student Ahrar Ahmed alias Naz (19), from Monosangan village under Bhanga block in Karimganj district. Unidentified militants abducted Naz on November 19.
• November 25: Security Forces arrest one ULFA militant, identified as Phatik Hatimota, one of those convicted in the killing of Sanjoy Ghose, from Salmora area of Majuli in Jorhat district.
• November 25: Security Forces arrest a suspected ULFA militant, Kumud Das alias Ron Hazarika, from Nalbari district.
• November 25: HTF elects N Gamlien Hmar as 'Commander-in-Chief' and Nicky as 'Finance Secretary' as replacement for the arrested Commander-in chief and Finance Secretary.
• November 25: Security Forces arrest four members of a newly floated militant outfit, Assam Tribal Commando, from North Lakhimpur district when they came to collect extortion money from a local businessman. Arrested militants include the 'commander-in-chief' of the outfit identified as Pinku Daimary and three other cadres.

• November 26: Security Forces recover arms and ammunition following an encounter with Anti-Talks Faction of ULFA-ATF militants in the forests between Madhupur and Medela in Dibrugarh district.

• November 27: Three militants of ULFA-ATF, identified as 'corporal' Bhadiya Bhumij alias Bidea Gowala, 'corporal' Tankeswar Moran and 'corporal' Rocky Bordoloi, alias Bidul Sonowal, surrender at Laipuli in Tinsukia district.

• November 29: C-in-C of DHD(J) Niranjan Hojai is picked up by police after he allegedly assaulted an employee of the Directorate of Agriculture in Guwahati.

• December 1: A delegation of the United People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) meets Governor JB Patnaik at the Raj Bhawan and requests him to hold the elections to the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Territorial Council as soon as possible. The UPDS delegation told the Governor that the members of the militant outfit would formally lay down arms soon to come over ground. They also informed the Governor that members of the outfit would join the political process after formally coming over ground and contest in the elections to the Territorial Council.

• December 2: Refuting the claim by the anti-talk faction of the ULFA that an explosion triggered by it led to the fire, the Dibrugarh district administration states in a statement, after an inquiry into the incident of fire broke out in the oil tanker, said that the taker caught fire while unloading the crude oil due to sparks. “It is not an act of sabotage and there is no casualty,” the statement read.

• December 11: Three ULFA militants of the 28th battalion are arrested by the police from Baihata Chariali.

• December 14: 568 UPDS militants, including 22 women cadres, lay down arms before the Government in Karbi Anglong district. The rebels handed over an assortment of sophisticated weapons.

• December 18: Home Ministry’s Jt Sec for the Northeast Sambhu Singh says that “Talks are not progressing satisfactorily with the DHD (Nunisa) factiondue to dilly dallying on their part. On the other hand there is a considerable progress in the DHD (Jewel Garlossa) factionon all issues. If the Nunisa group continues to adopt the delaying tactics, we will go ahead and finalize the accord with the other faction in January 2012”.

• December 22: A new outfit is reportedly floated, christened as thr National Dimasa’s Protection Army (NDPA) in Dima Hasao district. The outfit has vowed to wage an “armed struggle for an “autonomous state”. NDPA’s self-styled commander-in-chief Sumit Dimasa stated, “We promise to continue the armed struggle until we get an autonomous state because in the district of Dima Hasao, the people are not safe or satisfied". According to security agencies, the outfit comprises not more that 15 cadres, mostly based in Dimapur.

• Decemmer 28: Chif Minister Tarun Gogoi says to the media that “The Krishak Muki Sangram Samiti (KMSS) is being helped by Maoists and the entire anti-dam movement is being orchestrated by the ULFA and the Maoists”.

• December 28: 100 Moran youths gathered in a remote foothill village along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border to float an armed outfit in a bid to realize their demand for ST status to the community.

• December 31: Police arrest two ANLA cadres, Anuj Ghatowar and Sanjas Kheria of Udalguri district from Borgang division of Rangagarh tea estate under Borgang PS.