IMPHAL, February 7: Some underground organisations in Manipur have started smuggling narcotic drugs, particularly heroin, after they faced problems extorting money from the people, a top police executive said, reports PTI. The Additional Director General of Police (Manipur), C Peter, told reporters quoting Intelligence reports here on Monday that a hill-based underground organisation and a powerful valley-based guerrilla organisation were now smuggling narcotic drugs from across the border and sending them out of the region. He said that the underground outfits smuggle narcotic drugs from Tamu...

TEZPUR, February 7: In order to protect the ethnic identity of the Arunachalis from the increasing infiltrators, a new rebel outfit Arunachal Dragon Force (ADF) has been formed which is being helped by the banned ULFA and the NSCN (K) in imparting arms training. Talking to The Assam Tribune, official sources said that although the Arunachal Pradesh Government is luring the unemployed youths from insurgency by encouraging them to take up plantation in the State on the other hand the growing unemployment in the State is working as a catalyst in turning the frustrated youths towards the gun as a...

GUWAHATI, February 8: Nine policemen were killed and three others received bullet injuries when they were ambushed by extremists in north Cachar hills district this morning. Though the identity of the extremists group involved in the attack is yet to be ascertained, security forces suspect the involvement of the Dima Halong Daogah (DHD) and National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) in the attack. Police sources said here this evening that the incident occurred at around 8.45 am today, when 22 personnel of the Fifth Assam Police Battalion were proceeding towards Guwahati from the battalion...

GUWAHATI, February 6: The Northeast Apartment Developers' Association (NADA) today called upon the multi-storied apartment dwellers of the city to ask their respective builders to give guarantee of safety in the event of a major earthquake so as to prevent a Gujarat-like situation. Addressing a press conference at the Guwahati Press Club here this morning, NADA president Bimal Phukan, its vice-president Jagat Prasad Barua, general secretary Amal Barua, architect Gautam Barua and soil tester L Karim, however, said that no one can guarantee whether the city apartments will collapse or not in...

GUWAHATI, February 6: There is no point in being scared that the development of ethnic languages and literatures will rob the Assamese language and its literature of the vitality, but contrary to it Assamese language and literature will gain more from such developments. It is high time the Asam Sahitya Sabha should realise it and engage itself more in the development of languages and literatures of the State's ethnic groups, said president-elect of the Asam Sahitya Sabha Homen Borgohain here today. Borgohain, an eminent litterateur-cum-journalist, who was addressing a function at the Guwahati...