Politics / Northeast

New Delhi, July 12: The Supreme Court on Monday gave six weeks time to the Centre and the governments of West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura to file affidavits on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking repatriation of over one crore Bangladeshi migrants illegally staying in India. A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice AS Anand, justice M Jagannadha Rao and justice Santosh N Hedge, while giving the time, observed that matter was of serious nature and the States and the Centre should not delay it further. The PIL filed by All India Lawyers Forum for Civil Liberties...

Agartala, July 11: An ambitious Rs 1045.75-crore project is being implemented to construct border roads and barbed wire fencing along the India-Bangladesh border which extends to a length of 4095 km. Senior state government and Union home ministry officials told UNI here on Sunday that strict vigil is being maintained along the Indo-Bangla border in view of the ongoing Kargil conflict. Special measures have been taken to foil possible ISI activities in all the bordering states, specially the North Eastern States. As the entire Indo-Bangladesh border had been prone to large-scale illegal...