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IMPHAL, June 2?The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs will be arriving here on June 10 to look into the prevailing law-and-order situation in the State in the wake of abduction and subsequent killing of a cloth merchant by an underground outfit. The move of the Union Home Minister?s visit to the State was relayed by the vice-president of the BJP Pyarelal Khandelwal to the State unit leaders.

The former Chief Minister and legislature wing leader of the BJP RK Dorendro while briefing the media at the MPP office said, ?The recent abduction and subsequent killing of cloth trader Manoj Kumar...

NEW DELHI, June 2 ? In a significant step aimed at checking movement of militants across the Indo-Bhutan border, Government has designated the Special Services Bureau to man the frontier, reports PTI. The step has been taken in the wake of recent reports that militants of North-East and extremists of North Bengal were using this route to infiltrate and exfiltrate, official sources said here today.

The Home Ministry is also examining a proposal to raise additional battalions of the force, created under Cabinet Secretariat in 1963 and brought under Home Ministry last year, to meet the...

TEZPUR, June 2 ? The NE region of the country is not backward. It is resourceful and has the potential to emerge as the centre of development in the country, said secretary of the North Eastern Council (NEC) PL Thanga here today. Thanga, who was inaugurating a two-day regional workshop on ?Policy Framework for Efficient Management of Water and Land Resources for Poverty Alleviation in NE region?, organised by the North Eastern Regional Institute of Water and Land Management (NERIWALM) at Dholabari here, besides inaugurating the new administrate building of the Institute, also called upon the...

NEW DELHI, June 2 ? Lt Gen (Retd) Ajai Singh, who served as the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the four Corps in 1992 and spent many years in North East, was today appointed Governor of Assam, reports PTI.

Singh succeeds Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha who was recently appointed Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. Singh?s appointment will be ?with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office,? a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said. Gen Sinha will take up his new assignment as J and K Governor on June 4.

Meanwhile, Raj Bhawan sources said here today that Lt Gen Singh will arrive in the city...

Aizawl, June 1: Alleged favouritism over allotment of seats in the Imphal Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) under the Mizoram government quota has sparked a controversy here with the names of few political bigwigs of the state being dragged into it.

The controversy started with allegations that the state government had resorted to manipulations to accommodate chosen candidates for the highly sought-after post-graduate course at RIMS, reserved only for medical practitioners working in the state-run hospitals in Mizoram.

Sources said four out of the seven reserved seats at RIMS...