IMPHAL, June 3 ? The villagers of Sanakeithel along the Imphal-Ukhrul line are reportedly facing harassments and even physical assaults allegedly by the Assam Rifles personnel in the aftermath of the Leplen incident wherein 11 Assam Rifles personnel were killed in an underground activists attack.

Reports reaching here said the Assam Rifles personnel allegedly entered Khomunnom Kuki village and physically assaulted many persons. The seriously injured included village authority member, village church secretary, village youth club secretary and chief of the village Thangneikhup. Some of them...

VAIRENGTE (Mizoram), June 3 ? Ensconced in the thick jungles, the Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare (CIJW) School here is where Army personnel of the country and elite forces from other countries have been trained to combat terrorism, reports PTI. Brigadier Amrit Kapur, commandant of the CIJWs told PTI that the premier institution has gained more relevance in the wake of growing global menace of terrorism. ??The CIJW school functions as the Army?s nodal instruction facility for training the Indian Army in low intensity operations,?? Kapur said, adding the institution also trained personnel...

AIZAWL, June 3 ? The peace accord MNF Returnees Association, an organisation of former rebels, Friday said they would boycott the Peace Day celebrations on June 30, the anniversary day of the signing of Mizo Accord by representatives of Centre and the erstwhile underground Mizo National Front (MNF), in protest against ?continuing harassment of some of their colleagues,? reports PTI. More than 500 underground activists gave themselves up in 1986 after late MNF supremo Laldenga signed an accord with the then Rajiv Gnadhi government at Centre on June 30. Threatening to boycott the Peace Day...

GUWAHATI, June 3 ? Guwahati is growing, its population is also burgeoning, every passing day. Once a sleepy town of only a few lakh people it has now become a noisy city of about two million inhabitants. It has been robbed of the once enviable green canopy, mother nature had bequeathed to it, by the greed of the politicians and the people they patronised. Flash flood, mud, muck, smoke, dust and vehicular emission have been making this potential metropolis gasp, while incessant noise has been making it totter tensely. Its roads are not designed to stand the pressure of the vehicles that are...

GUWAHATI, May 3 ? The Union Power Ministry has moved the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to bear the security expenditure of power projects in insurgency-hit north-eastern region even as the focus has been shifted for setting up of community-owned mini, micro and small power projects in the region to light up rural households. During an interaction with distinguished persons here, Union Minister of Power, Suresh Prabhu today informed that the security cost of NE power projects used to be included in the total project cost often resulting in steep escalation of project cost in the event of...