Politics / Northeast

Shillong, Dec. 19: The BJP today said the party, as in other states, would take support from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (rss) for electoral gains in Meghalaya.

BJP national vice-president Pyeralal Khandelwal today said his party was not averse to seeking co-operation from all concerned, including the RSS.

?What is wrong with the RSS?? he asked, reacting to statements made by the Congress in the state on the BJP?s ?hidden agenda?. He was supported by senior party leaders from the region and the state, who said that the BJP would extend support to the RSS as long as the organisation...

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 16 — The Election Commission will not be able to set up new polling booths in the disputed Assam-Nagaland border during the forthcoming Nagaland Assembly polls, as the Supreme Court today ordered status quo following protest by Assam Government. The EC has now to confine polling to the 36 booths in the disputed Assam-Nagaland border as its plea for setting additional booths were rejected by the apex Court. The Commission had filed an application before the Court seeking directions to Assam to allow it to set up new booths in the area.

A two-member Bench comprising Chief Justice...

Guwahati, Dec. 16: Christian missionaries in the Northeast have once again come under severe criticism from a Sangh outfit. The nascent North East India Janajati Faith and Culture Protection Forum, a front organisation of the Sangh Parivar, today accused the Church of having a nexus with insurgent outfits.

Forum president B.B. Jamatia at a press conference here today justified its claim, saying the missionary-run schools were functioning normally in the insurgency-affected areas where even government schools were unable to function.

He was specifically referring to the threat to non...

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...

KARIMGANJ, Dec 1: They are Indian citizens who remain cut off from India for twelve hours a day. It may sound surprising but this is the plight of the people of eight villages of Karimganj district bordering Bangladesh as their villages are located outside the border fencing. This correspondent recently witnessed the plight of these people during a visit to the Indo-Bangla border areas and it is unfortunate that till date the Government has not taken any concrete step to reduce the sufferings of these people. Eight villages of Karimganj district remained outside the border fencing, which was...

NEW DELHI, July 10 ? A simultaneous crackdown on North East-based militants operating along with the Indo-Myanmar border and growing incidence of drug trafficking in the region were the focus of the Eighth National Level Meeting between the two countries that got underway here today. By persuading the military regime to mount crackdown on the North-east militants, mostly those belonging to Manipur including the NSCN(K) faction, India hopes to take the fight to the insurgents? doorstep. The massive crackdown on one NSCN(K) faction by the Myanmar Army in which the outfit?s headquarters was...

GUWAHATI, July 9 ? The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) have started relocating their training camps fearing a joint military operation in the southern part of Bhutan. Highly-placed official sources today disclosed that the leadership of the militant outfits have stepped up vigilance in the southern part of the Himalayan Kingdom to avoid causality during operations.

?According to reports, the militant groups have jointly set up monitoring cell in Samdrup Jongkhar to keep a watch on the movement of security personnel along the border...

NEW DELHI, July 7 ?? Bhutan has decided to carry the war into the enemy?s camp by asking outlawed ULFA to shut down its headquarters. At a final round of joint meeting with the outfit?s chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa and commander-in-chief, Paresh Baruah they are likely to be given the marching orders. In an apparent shift of strategy, the Royal Government of Bhutan instead of targeting individual camps and hounding out ULFA cadres operating out of the country, has decided to start from the top by asking the outfit to close down its main headquarters. It now appears that the Royal Government...

Imphal, July 03: To meet the threat posed on the Indian border by neighboring countries and to strengthen the vigilance on the border area, a Ministerial group has charted out a policy christened 'One border, one force.' Under this policy Assam Rifles personnel will be given the responsibility to keep vigil over the 1200 km long Indo-Myanmar border. The Pakistan and Bangladesh border are manned by BSF, SSB Nepal border, China border is under the vigil of the ITBP and the Line of Control is watched by the Indian Army. Disclosing this during an informal chat with media persons, Assam Rifles DIG...