Assam police personnel carry out river patrolling on the River Brahmaputra in Guwahati on Sunday,24 January 2010. Security forces have intensified patrolling to thwart any subversive activity by militant outfits, which have called for a "boycott" of the Republic Day celebrations. High alert was sounded across Assam ahead of the Republic Day to thwart subversive activities, even as security forces recovered explosives suspected to be meant for triggering blasts on January 26 from Guwahati and Jorhat. In another incident train passengers of the Arunachal Express had a narrow escape on Sunday as a powerful explosion ripped apart a stretch of the railway track some 30 minutes before the train was to pass that area in Assam, officials said. Two militants were also killed in separate shootouts in the state.

Photographer: Ujjal Deb

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