IMPHAL, June 21– Even as the army authority deployed in the State has denied to disclose their activities in flushing out of the Manipur-based insurgents along the Indo-Myanmar border, a high-level meeting of Indian and Myanmarese armies was held at Army headquarter at Rangapahar in Dimapur (Nagaland).

According to the reports received here, a 14-member delegation of Myanmar Army led by Lt Gen Ye Myint and their Indian counterparts held a discussion at length the overall security scenario along the international border. Although the meeting was believed to have chalked out strategies to...

DIBRUGARH, June 21 – Claiming that the recent flush-out operations against militants in Bhutan was a major successful venture of the Bhutanese Army, the GOC of the Tezpur-based Four Corps, Lt Gen AS Jamwal on Monday stressed on improved relations with the masses of efficient information gathering. He said that the Army is aware of the reports of fresh recruitments and extortion drives by the banned ULFA, and added that information gathering is a major way to check militancy.

“Our efforts to restore peace continues, and I am sure that attempts by the militants to bring disorder to society will...

GUWAHATI, June 21– The Government of Assam is yet to start the process of holding the polls to the Bodoland Autonomous Council (BTC). As per the accord signed between the Central and State Governments and the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT), the election should have been held within six months from the day the interim council assumes office and already the stipulated time frame is over and it is not known when the polls to the Council will be held.

The spokesman of the BTC, Khampa Borgoyari, who is an executive member of the interim council, told The Assam Tribune that the interim council has...

AZARA, June 21 – In a tragic incident, three wild elephants were run over by a train near Rani last night on the Kamakhya-Jogighopa route. Talking to The Assam Tribune, Jahur Ali, Range Officer of the Rani Forest Range said that a herd of about twenty wild elephants had come down from Chakradow hill last night. The elephants were searching for food by the side of the railway track near Chakradow-Mikirpara under Rani Forest Range.

According to sources in the forest department, at around 11.30 pm the DN BG BBMN Coal goods train with 41 wagons collided with some members of the herd. The impact...

New Delhi, June 20: Mizoram’s historical Aizawl Club will soon give way to a prototype of Delhi’s glitzy India Habitat Centre, which is the hub of socio-cultural activities in the capital. The building, estimated to cost Rs 12.37 crore, is being constructed by the state-owned National Buildings Construction Corporation Ltd (NBCCL) with finance from the Union urban development ministry. It is one of the many projects the PSU has undertaken in the Northeast with a combined budget of Rs 900 crore.

“The centre will be the first of its kind in the region. Like the one in Delhi, it will be the...