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...

Imphal, June 10: The Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) has strongly refuted the charges hurled by Kuki National Army (KNA) which was published in leading local dailies recently. A statement signed by information and publicity secretary Rocky Kuki pointed out that the Leplen ambush on AR personnel on April 27 "was in retaliation to the inhuman killings of its cadres by AR." It also accused one David Singson, "an informer of the AR" for the killings and maiming of its cadres. Commenting on the issue of KRA wresting Zaienphai village chiefship, it clarified that David Singson was never the chief of...

GUWAHATI, June 9? The Chief Minister, Sri Tarun Gogoi, today allocated the portfolios to his expanded team of Ministers by trimming the portfolio of all the senior Ministers, while giving some key portfolios like Industries and Education to several of the newly inducted Ministers. The Chief Minister has kept with himself the key departments of Home, Finance, Tourism and Culture and all other departments not specifically allocated to any other Minister. He has also trimmed the portfolios of several senior Ministers including Dr Bhumidhar Barman, Sri Sarat Barkataky, Dr Hemoprova Saikia, Sri G C...