DIPHU, July 20: The Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC) convention held here today took major decisions on restructuring the party and reallocating responsibilities of Chief Executive Member and executive members. All these decisions were taken amid walk-out by members belonging to Holiram Terang and Jotson Bey group both in the Standing Committee meeting and Central Committee meetings of the party. As per decision Jayanta Rongpi has been replaced by Chandra Kanta Terang as the President of ASDC while Holiram Terang has been replaced by Hem Sing Tisso as the General Secretary of the ASDC...

CALCUTTA, July 20: Five suspected ULFA militants were arrested and several documents and more than Rs 4 lakh recovered from them here yesterday. Police said the ultras were held from a house of the posh Park Street area in Central Calcutta when they were planning some subversive activities. Besides documents and mobile phones, cash amount of Rs 4,61,900 were recovered from them. The arrested persons were Nagen Chaliha, Bitupon Deora, Sanjib Goswami, Diganta Phukan and Dhrubajyoti Gogoi. All five were remanded to police custody till August 3.

JORHAT, July 20: The four Williamson Magor Group officials, who were remanded to judicial custody yesterday for links with the banned ULFA, were today interrogated by the police from 6 am to 4 pm. The quartet, including Mohbandha Tea Estate Manager Aswini Sarma and Gajen Gogoi and the two employees namely mechanic Haren Saikia and driver Gajen Bhuyan had allegedly provided help to an ULFA man, one Ratul Dutta who died of malaria last week. Ratul had arrived at the tea estate on July 13 after having contacted the disease at a camp of the outfit inside Nagaland The sub-divisional magistrate here...

IMPHAL, July 20: In the second of a series of reviews of the state situation by high-powered teams from the Centre, another 7-member task force on boundary management landed in a special BSF aircraft and held meetings with state authorities today. The team is led by the former Union home minister, Madhav Godbole as chairman. The other members of the team are: ML Mehta, T Ananthachari, Vice Admiral (retd.) AR Tandon, DVLN Ramakrishna Rao, Chinmoy Chakravorty and Lt. Gen (retd. VK Sood). They were accompanied by a number of officials, including IG(R) BSF, VN Rai; coordinator NSCS, Cabinet...

IMPHAL, July 20: In the aftermath of Tuesday morning's ambush on a CRPF patrol party near Lamdan village under Loktak police station, in which four jawans were killed, several residents of Lamdan were tortured and a housewife was raped by CRPF personnel intent on revenge yesterday, the village authorities have allleged. Apart from the rape, two women of the village, a mother and a daughter, were also badly molested, they charged. According to a press statement issued by the chairman of the Lamdan village authority, yesterday evening at around 5:30 pm a group of CRPF personnel, led by assistant...