DIMAPUR, July 9 ? NSCN-K today said that a top brass of the NSCN-IM was involved in the July 1 border incident in which an executive magistrate of Diphu was shot dead. Both the factions of NSCN are at loggerheads with one another and a decade-old hit-and-run battle is continuing between the two aimed at crushing the other.

?It is very clear that the NSCN-IM is not involved in the recent Assam-Nagaland border incident but AZ Jami, secretary of the steering committee of the organization (NSCN-IM) has used his office and his boys in dismantling the security of Assam and killing of the Assam...

ITANAGAR, July 9 ?Tezu, the headquarter of Lohit district in Arunachal Pradesh was cut off from the rest of the country even as all the major rivers and their tributaries in the district are in spate following torrential rains for the last 10 days, official sources said here on Friday, reports PTI. Noa Dihing river was flowing 20 cm above the danger level and posing a threat to Namchai township, the sources said. Many villages under Mahadevpur circle are inundated following the swelling waters of the river Digaru and Derrang, which are also flowing above the danger mark.

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GUWAHATI, July 9 ? Several Bengali organisations of Brahmaputra Valley in Assam today threatened to launch an agitation to protest the absence of any representative of their community in the recently downsized Congress government in the State, reports PTI. ?There are three 'Hindu Bengali' MLAs in the Congress from the Brahmaputra Valley and none has found a place in the ministry with even a senior leader, Dr Ardhendu Dey, the former Agriculture minister, having been dropped,? president of Sangyukta Yuba Chatra Parishad of Assam, Sanjay Kumar Chakraborty told reporters here. The organisations...

KHETRI, July 9 ? With the opening of the North-east?s first state-of-the-art Research and Development Centre for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants set up by the North Eastern Development Finance Corporation (NEDFi) at Khetri, 25 km from the city, today, the stage is set for an ?aromatic revolution? in the State. Hailing the venture that is expected to give a big boost to commercialization of medicinal and aromatic plants that have tremendous potential in the State, scientists and experts who gathered on the occasion, felt that the centre, by way of imparting the much-needed technical guidance...

NEW DELHI, July 9 ? The threat of illegal infiltration from Bangladesh has sent alarm bells ringing in Meghalaya, with Chief Minister DD Lapang seeking urgent assistance from the Government of India in curbing infiltration. The State Government has sought issue of national identity cards and setting up of three Border Security HQs in East and West Khasi and Jayantia Hills.

"Ours is an influx-prone State,? Lapang said demanding expediting of the border-fencing project. With no end in sight to the vexed inter-State border dispute with Assam, Chief Minister Lapang has sought the intervention of...