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GUWAHATI, Dec 3: Notwithstanding deployment of additional forces, marauding Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) militants gunned down three more innocent Karbi villagers besides setting fire to about 30 houses at Mansing Teron village under Manja Police outpost about 18 kilometres away from Diphu in Karbi Anglong last night.

Police sources informed that a large group of KRA ultras raided the remote village at around 8 p.m. last night and opened indiscriminate fire from sophisticated weapons killing three Karbi persons including a 12-year-old boy and a woman and injured one.

The deceased were...

GUWAHATI, Dec 3 ? The Congress emerged as the single largest party in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) elections, bagging 27 of the total 57 wards for which polling was held last Monday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 13 wards while the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) secured 12. Independents won three wards while the NCP and the TGP got one each. Recounting was under way for one of the wards (No 12) where the AGP has emerged victorious on the first count.

It was a day of smiles, victory marches, sloganeering, disappointment and despondency for the contesting candidates who thronged...

GUWAHATI, Dec 3 ? The ruling Congress virtually swept the civic polls Assam by capturing power in 34 Municipal bodies out of 55 where elections were held on December 1. The main opposition party Assom Gana Parishad (AGP) managed to win majority in only six civic bodies, while the BJP gained majority in seven. The overall winning percentage of the Congress is 53.32 and that of the AGP is 20.12 and BJP 14.99 in the civic bodies excluding the Guwahati Municipal Corporation.

The election results proved that the Congress managed to retain the hold it had gained in the last assembly polls while...

Nagaon, Dec. 2: The Karbi Anglong and N.C. Hills People?s Resistance (KNPR), the armed wing of the anti-talks faction of the United People?s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS), today threatened to purge the district of all Kukis. Declaring open war against the Kuki outfit, the UPDS said its operation would end only after the last Kuki village was uprooted from the twin districts of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hiils. The UPDS claimed that Kukis had migrated to the two districts from neighbouring Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram.

The outfit?s warning came even as suspected UPDS militants torched five...

AGARTALA, Dec 2: BSF Inspector General Alexander Daniel has categorically said that no town or habitat of Tripura will fall in the other side of the barbed wire fencing being erected in the Indo-Bangla international border, reports PTI. The IG was commenting on the contention of Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar that if the fencing was constructed according to present norms, at least three subdivisional towns of the State ? Kailashahar, Belonia and Sahroom ? very close to the zero line, would be on the other sine of the fence.

Talking to newsmen here on the eve of the BSF Raising Day on...