Insurgency / Northeast

Imphal, January 02: Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh has stated that general secretary of NSCN (IM) Thuingaleng Muivah would not be let off if he comes to Manipur. Addressing mediapersons during a New Year's feast hosted at the Banquet Hall of the 1st MR here yesterday, the Chief Minister who also holds the Home portfolio, however, said that his Government has not yet decided upon any definite action to be initiated against the leaders of the underground outfit which has been stripped of its unlawful tag recently to clear their path for the India visit. NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chisi Swu and...

GUWAHATI, Jan 1: Militant outfit National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) today suffered a major setback as the vice-chairman of the outfit Dhiren Boro alias Sungtha was arrested by Sikkim Police in Gangtok. Dhiren Boro is the second senior leader of the NDFB to be arrested within a month as only last month the general secretary of the outfit Govinda Basumatary was arrested in Rangiya when he was on his way to North Bengal from Dimabur. Highly placed police sources in North Bengal told The Assam Tribune this evening that Dhiren Boro was arrested under the provisions of the Prevention of...

Imphal, Jan. 1: The Centre’s eagerness to make the NSCN (I-M) leadership feel at home on their return to India has been counterbalanced by the belligerence of Manipur, which today declared that it would not hesitate to arrest the outfit’s general secretary, Thuingaleng Muivah, if he visited the state. Both Nagaland and Assam have withdrawn the arrest warrants against Muivah and NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chisi Swu to facilitate their return to the country for the next round of peace talks with the Centre.

Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh has, however, refused to make any such concession...

Guwahati, Dec. 25: The diplomatic mission to convince Bhutan and Bangladesh to flush out militants of the Northeast from their territories has made substantial progress, according to the Union minister in charge of the department for development of the northeastern region, Arun Shourie.

He made the statement during an informal interaction with members of the media on the runway of Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport here. “Diplomatic initiatives are on at the appropriate level and the results will be known soon,” he said.

Shourie said he had spoken to leaders of Bangladesh —...

DHAKA, Dec 24 — Bangladesh has denied Indian charge of the existence of terrorist camps within its territory, terming it as “baseless”, according to a media report, reports PTI. “The government of Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia after a thorough and detailed investigation has intimated Delhi that there was no truth to the charge made by India,” vernacular newspaper The Daily Jugantor said today.

Quoting officials, it said “the door is open for any diplomat to verify what the government insists (that there is no terrorist camp). This is for the first time that investigations were carried out...

Guwahati, Dec. 21: The Royal Bhutan government has warned militant outfits from Assam and West Bengal that it would be left with no option but to use military force if Indian insurgents did not leave their camps in the Himalayan Kingdom peacefully.

King Jigme Singe Wangchuk, addressing the nation, said his government would soon hold talks with the militant outfits, asking them to leave the country.

?Our objective during the talks will be to ensure that the militants remove their main camp, which serves as their headquarters, from Bhutanese territory. If our efforts to resolve this problem...

SHILLONG: At least 60 HNLC rebels including many of its top brass have been arrested during this year so far, police said on Tuesday.With the security forces stepping up its counter-insurgency operations almost all the top brass of the outfit were now hiding in Bangladesh, the sources said adding besides the arrest, huge cache of arms and ammunition were seized in the raids during the period.Meanwhile, police stations in the city including mainly Lumdiengjri, Mawlai, Laban, Laitumkhrah and some outposts had been asked to be on allert after Intelligence report suggested that HNLC might attack...

NEW DELHI, Dec 1: Describing the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka as the ?nerve centre? of ISI activities, a government publication has claimed that Pakistani intelligence officials have long been engaged in networking with and coordinating activities of north-eastern insurgent groups and Islamic extremists elements in Bangladesh, reports PTI. Besides making ?extensive inroads? into Bangladeshi organisations like Jamaat-e-Islami, Harkat-ul-Jehad al-Islami and several other ?anti-Awami League organisations?, the book says ISI operatives, ?in association with Directorate General of Forces...

KOHIMA, July 15 ? NSCN(K) will enforce its own regulations to check influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh to Nagaland, reports PTI. In a statement here today, the militant outfit, currently on a ceasefire under an agreement with the Union government, said it would issue ?temporary resident permit (TRP)? to Bangladeshi migrants whom the Nagas called ?miyas?. The organisation would issue TRP through its network to ?miyas? for a year, which, however, could be renewed Such people would be restricted to 2,500 per district, the statement said. It also asked land owners not to employ more...

GAURIPUR, July 15? Though it is often praised that the Left Front government in West Bengal has substantial achievements in respect of land reforms, decentralisation of power and women?s empowerment, etc., but in practice, it is not so. After getting Zamindari Abolition Act passed in the Parliament of independent India, the government acquired surplus land in the North Bengal districts of Coachbehar, Jalpaiguri, Dinazpur and Malda from the Zamindars who belonged to Rajbongshi community. But the land thus acquired from indigenous Rajbongshi people has been distributed to the landless people who...