The two children of arrested ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa think that their father is a businessman and they are Bangladeshis, a top BSF official said in Shillong on Friday.
The Congress in the Northeast is facing the statehood music the UPA government composed on Telangana last week.
ULFA Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and Raju Barua were handed over to the BSF by Bangladeshi security agencies at an outpost along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya early today. Rajkhowa is talking with the government over initiating peace talks.
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Who's RajkhowaThe Meghalaya police has arrested a cashier of a State Bank of India branch in Jaintia Hills district for fraudulently withdrawing over Rs. one crore from accounts of several customers.
The Dima Halem Daogah (Jewel faction) on Thursday challenged the ban imposed on it by the Centre in July saying it had joined the mainstream and has abjured violence.
The three-day conference of station commanders of Eastern Air Command on issues pertaining to operational requirements in North-East began in Shillong this morning.
The BSF will hand over a list of around 100 camps of different militant groups located in Bangladesh and seek action against them during a four-day meeting with top BDR commanders in Sylhet beginning Wednesday, official sources said.
In a setback to ULFA, Bangladeshi security agencies have launched a crackdown on their leaders there, forcing them to flee.
An Indian Air Force (IAF) power hand-glider made a 'precautionary landing' in Assam's Barpeta district on Saturday while it was flying from Hasimara in North Bengal to Guwahati.
Jai Ho-famed Oscar winner A R Rahman's team will be in Meghalaya to record the beats of the 100-drums Wangala Festival, a part of which will be included in the composition being prepared for the opening ceremony of next year's Commonwealth Games.
The controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act on Saturday came under the scanner of Meghalaya Governor RS Mooshahary and additional director of Intelligence Bureau with both maintaining that it was time to revisit the enforcement of the act in Manipur.
Calling for a consensus on the issue of uranium mining in Meghalaya, NCP leader P A Sangma has said the government should restrain itself from adopting "bulldozing tactics".
Movement of insurgents on Indo-Bangladesh border is a serious matter and without an effective fencing it is difficult to check it, newly-appointed Meghalaya Director General of Police, S B Kakati said on Tuesday.
The Khasi Students Union (KSU), a dominant student-youth body, has temporarily suspended its road blockade against uranium mining in Meghalaya after the government invited it for talks, officials said here Thursday.
If you give a 50 paise or 25 paise coin to a shopkeeper in Meghalaya, his standard response may be
yeh nehi chalta hai and if you give them matchboxes or toffees instead, they are readily accepted.