IMPHAL, May 29 ? Underground Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA), which has ?close links? with NSCN (I-M), Wednesday claimed responsibility for the Monday last ambush in which 11 Assam Rifles personnel had been killed at Leplan area in Manipur?s Ukhrul district, reports PTI. A caller identified as one Rocky Kuki, information secretary of KRA, said its cadres had attacked and killed the Assam Rifles personnel. An Assam Rifles statement had earlier said they had suspected KRA and NSCN (I-M) to be behind the attack on the security forces. Meanwhile, three local organisations today strongly condemned...

GUWAHATI, May 29 ? Guwahati was today put on the global Information Technology (IT) map with the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, inaugurating the firstever international call centre of the NE region here this afternoon. The international call centre is set up by DSS-e Contact Limited in the NEDFi IT park in the heart of the city. The 300desk call centre has already recruited 600 young boys and girls from the north eastern region. Inaugurating the call centre, the Chief Minister termed it a path breaking development in the northeastern region, and announced that the Assam government would soon...

GUWAHATI, May 29 ? Foreign connections of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) are now well known facts but on the basis of interrogation reports of the militants who were arrested or surrendered in recent years, security forces have pinpointed more than 40 routes commonly used by the cadres of the outfit to visit their foreign bases. Majority of the routes identified lead to the camps of the ULFA in the neighbouring country Bhutan, but several routes used by the militants to visit their bases in Bangladesh and Myanmar have also been identified on the basis of interrogation reports...

GUWAHATI, May 29 ? Centre has decided to sanction Rs 33 crore for the North East in order to upgrade export infrastructure in the entire region. Highly placed official sources today said that the funds would be spent in the seven States of the region to upgrade the existing infrastructure and the border trade points. It may be recalled that the Centre has sanctioned over Rs 300 crore for upgrading infrastructure, of which 10 per cent will be spent specially in the North East with an eye to give a boost to exports with the neighbouring countries.

The sources further said that in spite of...

GUWAHATI, May 29 ? Authorities of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) started eviction drive to root out encroachers from the park as part of the statewide drive launched by the Forest Department in compliance with Supreme Court directive. Sources in KNP informed that the eviction drive was launched in the sixth addition of the National Park since yesterday in Maite and Keteng chaporis (riverine landmass) and so far 24 cattleshed have been evicted. The eviction drive will continue till the KNP in made free of all sorts of encroachers.