Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Tariq Ahmed Karim has indicated that Anup Chetia, general secretary of the banned ULFA, under detention in his country after serving a jail term, would be handed over to India soon.
Two militants were killed in an encounter with police at Kamoching area in Manipur, officials said on Saturday.
A man allegedly burned his wife then set himself on fire. The couple left behind two minor children
The IAF on Thursday indicated that the ageing fleet of its fighter planes was a matter of concern and hoped that the massive deal for purchase of 126 multi-role combat aircraft would come through.
A Shillong-Dhaka air service will be among a host of issues likely to be taken up by Chief Minister D D Lapang when he meets Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi on Monday.
Mizoram will soon take back around 35,000 Reang tribal refugees who have been staying in Tripura since 1997 after fleeing their state due to ethnic violence, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said on Wednesday.
Contingents of the India Reserve Battalion (IRB) in Mizoram are being relocated to two districts in Assam to help state authorities maintain law and order, a senior police officer said today.
Less than a year after he scripted a dramatic jailbreak, the ghost of slain gangster Fullmoon Dhar has returned to embarrass the Congress in Meghalaya. And this time, it’s the turn of a Lok Sabha member to be uneasy.
The banned Assam-based militant outfit ULFA today rejected Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's offer for peace talks echoing their chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa's stand "no peace talks with ULFA leaders in jail".
BSF jawans fired in the air and detained a BDR personnel who along with two others tried to intrude into the Indian territory in Meghalaya this morning.
An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale shook parts of the North East today, the second in two days, officials said here. The quake which occurred at 15.28 pm has its epicentre somewhere in Bhutan, about 183 km North West from here and occurred at a depth of 7 km below the earth’s surface.
Former Orissa Chief Minister and veteran Congress leader Janaki Ballabh Patnaik was on Saturday appointed the governor of Assam while Dr Kamla has been transferred to Gujarat from Tripura, reports HT Correspondent.
BSF today said top ULFA leader Arabinda Rajkhowa, another key militant and their families surrendered at the Dawki border outpost in Meghalaya early this morning.
The much-awaited process of repatriation of 35,000 Reang tribal refugees from Tripura to Mizoram hangs in the balance despite pressure from the Centre, the Tripura government and rights bodies on the Mizoram government to resolve the 12-year-old ethnic crisis.
Security has been tightened across Darjeeling in view of the fourth round of tripartite talks to be held on the Gorkhaland issue on December 21, even as some organisations today called for a bandh on the day.