GUWAHATI/TURA: In a prize catch, Assam Police on Saturday arrested the self-styled chairman of United A’chik Liberation Army (UALA) Novembirth Marak from a Guwahati hospital. The chairman of UALA also known as Chiindik Marak (36) was detained by the special operation unit (SOU) of Assam Police, a senior police official said. The militant leader was admitted to the hospital on Read more
Imphal, June 10: The United Naga Council (UNC) has announced a 48-hour total bandh in Naga areas with effect from the midnight of June 16 till midnight of June 18 to protest alleged unabated communal actions and policies of the Government of Manipur and to urge the Government of India to expedite its intervention for an ‘Alternative Arrangement’. However, medical Read more
Dimapur June 10:Nine cadres of the United People’s Liberation Army, a Karbi militant outfit, were captured in Dimapur in a police operation on June 8. The cadres, suspected to be connected to the killing of Karbi-Anglong’s Hamren Police District Superintendent of Police, Nityananda Goswami on June 5, were taken into custody by the Karbi-Anglong police. Dimapur police stated that the Read more
Guwahati, June 10: Bangladesh is ‘processing’ Ulfa leader Anup Chetia’s request for voluntary repatriation to India. Chetia, the general secretary of the outlawed outfit, has been in a Bangladeshi prison since 1997. He asked to be repatriated to India in June last year. Chetia was a close aide of Ulfa supremo Paresh Baruah. Chetia alias Golap Baruah was arrested at Dhaka’s Read more
Oking, June 8 : The NSCN (IM) has once again clarified that solution to the protracted Indo-Naga political issue will be on the basis of the “Unique history and situation of the Nagas” as mutually agreed between the Government of India during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Prime Minister ship and NSCN on the 11 July 2002 which shall be honorable and Read more
R Dutta Choudhury GUWAHATI, June 8 – Talks with militant outfits should be result oriented and there is no point talking without any definite framework. This was the observation made by Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju. Talking to The Assam Tribune, Rijiju, who visited the State yesterday and reviewed the law-and-order situation at a meeting with Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and Read more
ITANAGAR, June 8 – Giving a severe blow to insurgent groups indulging in unlawful activities and creating terror in certain areas of the State, security forces have achieved a major breakthrough by arresting four hardcore cadres of National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Unification (NSCN-U) from Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh. The cadres have been identified as Ahon Honwang Josak alias Sgt Read more
New Delhi, June 6: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju said that the Centre was ready to hold talks with Northeast insurgent outfits, if they were ready to join the mainstream. In a recent interview to a news channel, he said: “We are very open to negotiation. Those factions, with whom the peace talks are ongoing, and Read more
June 5, Shillong: An intense gun battle erupted in Meghalaya’s East Garo Hills district on Thursday, and lasted for 6 hours as security forces launched a crackdown on a militant hideout, an official said. There were no reports yet if anyone was arrested or killed in the crackdown in Adugre area, about 370km from here. “The gun battle is on Read more