GUWAHATI, June 10 ? The Minority Department of the Assam Pradesh Congress (I) Committee (APCC-I) is critical about the procedure followed by the State?s forest department in evicting the encroachers from forest lands. Addressing a press conference here today chairman of the APCC-I Minority Department A F Golam Osmani said that at its meeting on June 8, the Minority Department had decided to move both the Government in the State and at the Centre with the plea that they should submit a plan on the eviction procedure before the Supreme Court in connection with the case leading with the Apex...

GUWAHATI, June 10 ? Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar, a former judge of Rajasthan High Court, was today sworn in as Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court. State Governor Lt Gen (retd) SK Sinha administered the oath of office to Naolekar at a simple function at the Darbar Hall of the Rajbhavan here. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Chief Secretary Pramab Kumar Bora and Director General of Police HK Deka were present at the function.

GUWAHATI, June 10 ? The Assam Police and the BSF today decided to establish a monitoring system for joint cooperation along the international border, reports PTI. In a meeting between top Assam policemen and BSF officials here, it was decided to jointly work on detection work with coordination with other law-enforcing agencies, official sources said here. All the watch posts required to check infiltration across the border would be geared up and emphasis would be given for maintaining better records in the concerned watch posts. The meeting decided to give top priority to check infiltration...

Imphal, June 10: The 2nd death anniversary of renowned personality Arambam Samarendra was held all over the State today. Founder general secretary and chairman of the UNLF, Samarendra was shot .dead on this day two years back long after he came overground and was leading a retired life. Various organizations came together and organized functions at different places to remember the man who was assassinated two years back. A symposium on the life and works of Samarendra was held at MU Centenary Hall jointly organized by Uniline and Research Club, Manipur University. MU VC Professor Hijam Tombi...

Imphal, June 10: The underground People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, PREPAK has rejected the claim by the Zomi Revolutionary Army, ZRA, that the six PREPAK members slain in the June 1 encounter had opened fire first on the cadres of the ZRA and that they had been killed without any knowledge of their identities. The PREPAK, in a statement issued here, reiterated that the six slain cadres had been shot at close range, and their bodies bore evidence that they had been beaten up before being shot. It said the PREPAK’s version of events had been verified from a spot enquiry and from the...