IMPHAL, April 24: Five persons have been handed over to Singhat police station in Churachandpur district of Manipur by the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, police said today. Four civilians and a People's Liberation Army (PLA) cadre were handed over to Singhat police station on Sunday night, the police said. Earlier, Manipur Human Rights Commission (MHRC) had set a deadline of 24 hours for the Manipur Director General of Police (DGP) to locate the whereabouts of four persons believed to have been arrested by BSF personnel after an encounter. The deadline expired yesterday noon, an MHRC...

NEW DELHI, April 26: Hesitation to fire at civilians led to the capture and killing of 16 BSF personnel at Boraibari on the India-Bangladesh border on April 18, official sources said here, reports PTI. Detailing the incidents which culminated in the killing of 16 BSF personnel, they said the deceased border guards were patrolling the area to prevent intrusion by BDR after 'unprovoked' attack by the Bangladeshi border guards three days earlier when three battalions of troops targeted an Indian Border Outpost (BDP) at Pyrdiwah. "The BSF patrol party came under heavy fire from BDR troops at...

NEW DELHI, April 26: A fierce tussle over leadership in the Assam Congress Party is likely to break out between the camps of State president, Tarun Gogoi and Bhubaneswar Kalita following a decision of the AICC high command not to back any State leader as a Chief Ministerial candidate. Even as the Assam Congress leadership continue to grope in the dark, clueless how to handle the growing dissident activities, the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to hit the campaign trial in the State with a meeting in Tezpur on May 30. She is slated to address a few more meetings in Sonitpur and...

GUWAHATI, April 26: Peace for development is the focus of the election manifesto of Asom Gana Parishad. The manifesto which was released by the party president, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, here this morning, pledges to carry on its efforts to bring back peace to the insurgency ravaged State if the party is voted to power in the forthcoming polls. The regional party poll manifesto identifies insurgency as the major impediment in the path of development and reiterates its commitment to provide security to lives and property of common people in the State. The AGP also highlights that the party does...

IMPHAL, April 26: Former Deputy Chief Minister L Chandramani today said that he has been trying to resolve the leadership crisis of the Manipur State Congress Party (MSCP) as the Chairman of a five member Re-unification Committee which was formed just after the fall of the then MSCP led United Front Government. Asked if there is any possibility of resolving the crisis in the party when the Election Commission has already recognized the two groups separately as MSCP(N) and MSCP(C), he said that anything can happen in politics and nothing should be read as final or definite. The time is not...