AGARTALA, Jan 19 — The All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) militants ambushed the police party escorting Industries Minister Pabitra Kar, Opposition leader in the Tripura ADC Radhacharan Debbarma and CPM MLA Monaranjan Debbarma. The incident took place at around 2 pm yesterday at Sateradhanpara in West Tripura District. No one was, however, hurt in the ensuing encounter. According to police sources, the Minister, ADC Opposition leader and MLA with some civil officers had gone to the area for a development meeting. While they were returning, the police escort personnel were waylaid by the militants...

IMPHAL, Jan 19 ? Close on the heels of "punishing" the Director of Education (Schools), two other officials of Manipur University who were allegedly involved in the 'marks tampering' scandal that rocked the State, have been meted out some treatment by the members of the ibed 'Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup' (Oken group). The two officials of Manipur University have been identified as Associate Professor of Computer science Department of the University Oinam Imocha (47) of Langthabal Kunja Awang and head of Computer centre and system Manager Moirangthem Jugeshwor (50) of Sagolband Tera Sapam Leirak...

IMPHAL, Jan 19 — Suspected militants have set ablaze the residence of former Manipur Chief Minister W Nipamacha Singh and fired at the residence of former Union Minister Th Chaoba Singh in Manipur, official sources said today, reports PTI. Armed persons barged into the living room of Nipamacha Singh’s private residence at Wangoi area in Imphal West district late last night and set it on fire after holding up the family members at gun point. However, not much damage was reported as the fire service personnel reached the spot in time, the sources said. Singh was not in the house at the time of...

GUWAHATI, Jan 19 – Participants of a seminar on man and elephant conflict in North East India, organised by the Co-ordinating Organisation of the Non-Governmental Organisations involved in Conservation of Forest, Wildlife and Environment (CONGOFORM) at the Pensioners’ Bhawan auditorium here today, called for a strong political will on the part of the State Governments of the region to protect the pachyderm. “These animals constitute a part of our heritage, they should be protected”, the participants observed. The participants also expressed their unambiguous agreement with the 10-point...

AGARTALA, Jan 18 — The Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF), a Mizoram-based outfit has said all its members would surrender to the Mizoram Government if the later concedes their demands through peaceful negotiations. Two rounds of peace talks have been held with the government and we are optimistic that it would bear fruits, A Joseph, asvisor of BNLF told PTI here. ‘All the members would surrender if the government concedes our demands,’ he said. Joseph denied a press report that BNLF has recently suffered a split on the issue of surrender. The BNLF’s main demands include rehabilitation of...