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GUWAHATI, Dec 16 ? Army personnel have been deployed all along the West Bengal-Bhutan border to prevent the militants from sneaking into the State in view of the Bhutan Army operations in the neighbouring country. Security sources in North Bengal told this correspondent that though the Army was not operating in West Bengal, Army personnel were posted all along the international boundary from the night of December 14, hours before the Bhutan Army launched the offensive against the militant outfits in the country. West Bengal has about 200 kilometres of border with Bhutan and the entire border...

GUWAHATI, Dec 16 ? A full-scale Army operation is once again looming large on the State as the State government has sounded a state-wide red alert to thwart possible infiltration bid by militants from Bhutan in the wake of the Bhutanese Army launching operations to flush out ULFA, NDFB and KLO militants from the Himalayan kingdom.

Addressing a Press conference today, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi informed that the Union government had specifically asked the State government to prevent any bid by militants who are facing offensive of the Royal Bhutan Army, to sneak into the State. Gogoi informed...

GUWAHATI, Dec 16 ? Intensifying its crackdown on Indian insurgent groups operating from its soil, Bhutanese army has captured the central command headquarters of ULFA and destroyed several camps near the border with Assam amidst reports of casualties from both sides as Indian troops kept a strict vigi to prevent fleeing ultras from entering the country, reports PTI.

A red alert has been sounded in Assam and borders with Bhutan sealed with the army moving additonal forces on the border. ?Bhutan?s Royal Army soldier have seized ULFA?s centreal command headquarters located at Phukatong in...

New Delhi/Guwahati, Dec. 15: India today lavished praise on Bhutan for launching a military offensive against Northeast militant groups operating from its territory, but senior bureaucrats remained sceptical about its ability to keep the rebels out for good.

A senior official said Bhutan?s military manpower and equipment might be inadequate to maintain control over the areas from where militants of the Ulfa and the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) were being shunted out.

He claimed the top leaders of both groups fled the Himalayan kingdom before the operation began.

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Shillong, Dec. 15: In a jolt to Meghalaya strongman P.A. Sangma, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) split in the state today. Chief minister D.D. Lapang today scored over his arch political rival, the former Lok Sabha Speaker, by first breaking up the NCP and then inducting four of its members into the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) coalition.

Led by Cyprian R. Sangma, six NCP legislators today announced their decision to break away from the NCP and form the Meghalaya Nationalist Congress Party (MNCP).

The split was announced by Speaker Martin Danggo on the first day of the winter...