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IMPHAL, June 21 –Top officials of the Indian Army have been visiting this border State since the past couple of weeks after they occupied the so-called “liberated zone” Sajik Tampak in the southern Chandel district bordering Myanmar. Army sources here said that the top officials of the Army have been visiting the State to take stock of the ongoing situation in this insurgency -prone region.

Sajik Tampak, more than 100 km south of Imphal, located in a hilly terrain of southern Chandel district of Manipur had been the stronghold of major underground outfits like Revolutionary People’s Front...

TEZPUR, June 22 – The banned ULFA and NDFB which suffered a major setback after Operation Flush-out launched by the Royal Government of Bhutan in the tiny Himalayan Kingdom in December last year have started recruiting new cadres for the outfits and also started serving extortion notes on the business communities of northern Assam despite the heavy presence of security forces.

Highly-placed official sources told this correspondent that both the outfits have served extortion notice to the business community living at Rangapara, Dhekiajuli, Chariduar, Sengalimari in Sonitpur district and to the...

KOLKATA, June 22 – India is likely to take up with Bangladesh the issues of infiltration and reported ultra training camps on its soil at a ministerial-level meeting, the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Prakash Jaiswal, said here today, reports PTI.

“If required, we will consider holding bilateral talks with Dhaka at the ministerial level to resolve the sensitive issues like the infiltration of the Bangladeshis into India and the reported training camps of anti-Indian ultras in that country,” Jaiswal told reporters here after his review meeting with senior CRPF officials at its...

Agartala, June 22: The banned Biswamohan faction of the National Liberation Front of Tripura has demanded a ransom of Rs 60 lakh for releasing 24 hostages. Twenty-three small traders were abducted on June 14 from Quairi area under Vangmun police station in Kanchanpur subdivision of north Tripura.

A group of 25 heavily-armed NLFT militants had stopped two vehicles carrying 60 passengers at 6.30 am on that day. The vehicles were going towards Kawanpui on the occasion of market day at the trijunction of Tripura, Bangladesh and Mizoram.

The militants had selected 24 non-tribals, including the...

Dibrugarh, June 21: The “brain” of the Ulfa’s dreaded 28th battalion is back in action, sending security forces into a tizzy with a string of attacks in the twin districts of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia over the past few days. High-level police sources said quoting intelligence that the quartet of Prasanta Moran, Mridul Borpatragohain, Dibakar Moran and Antu Chowdang — known as master strategists — are back in the thick of action after the setback in Bhutan during the later part of last year.

“When these four leaders from the outfit’s 28th battalion get to work, it’s a bad omen,” a senior police...