GUWAHATI, Jan 27 – Two policemen, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Headquarters), Kamrup District, Sri Devajit Pathak, and the driver of his vehicle Sri Digbijoy Dutta, were killed, while 21 others were injured, six of them seriously, in three separate incidents of extremist bomb blasts in the State today. According to police sources, suspected ULFA militants activated an improvised explosive device on the Boko-Nalapara Road around 1.30 pm today blowing off the vehicle in which Sri Devajit Pathak, along with his four personal security officers (PSOs) was travelling. The police party was...

IMPHAL, Jan 24 — After five days of ceasework strike against the attack on the life of deputy superintendent of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Dr P Bedikumar, the doctors and employees of the institute decided to resume normal service by opening the emergency service and morgue of the hospital from Wednesday. The Joint Action Committee (JAC) against shooting incident in RIMS hospital in a meeting held on Tuesday, also decided to suspend its ceasework strike agitation from January 25. The convenor of the JAC while talking to the newsmen, said that the decision to call off the...

GUWAHATI, Jan 25 – Jatinga, a tiny hamlet in Assam’s North Cachar Hills district, acquired fame for its ‘suicidal birds but environmentalists now contend that the birds do not die on their own but are killed by the local villagers. The pictureseque village, surrounded by the Barail hills, the Dholong river in South-West and Jatinga river in the West, has been a matter of interest for tourists and nature lovers alike for the curious phenomenon of birds killing themselves by jumping into fire during the month of September and October. Several theories have been propounded regarding the suicidal...

Imphal, January 25: The Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, has released its election manifesto today, which lays stress on reconciliation among the people of the state, sustainable economic development, conflict resolutions, human rights, women?s empowerment, genuine state autonomy, a new education policy, bringing HIV/AIDS under control and the environment. Elaborating on the promises made in the manifesto, the party president Khaidem Mani told media persons that if the opportunity to form the government, the DPP would abolish all artificial barriers that have come up between people in Manipur...

TURA, Jan 24 — Unidentified gunmen shot dead Gandhi Teron, vice-chairman of the United Peoples Democratic Society (UPDS) at his residence at Monitilla village in Karbi Anglong district on Wednesday around 8.15 pm, according to reports available here. Teron was one of the UPDS leaders in favour of talks with the Government and it is suspected that he was killed at the behest of those opposing dialogue. Police recovered empty cartriogdes of AK-47 rifles from the site of the incident. Vigorous investigation was on, police said.