IMPHAL, April 24: At least seven army jawans of the 15 JAT Regiment were reported to be seriously wounded when a powerful bomb exploded near the foothill of Lamprai Ching along NH 39 at Khonghampat Awang Leikai under Sekmai police station around 3.45 pm today. In the follow up action, the army personnel allegedly thrashed five civilians who were grinding stones at a nearby place. The incident happened when the convoy of the 15 JAT Regiment in four vehicles were going towards Leimakhong from Imphal. The bomb which was believed to have been activated by using a remote device exploded after two...

IMPHAL, April 24: The apex body of the students' community in Manipur the All Manipur Students' Union (AMSU) alongwith the parents and guardians of over 15,000 students in eight different Catholic schools in and around Imphal called upon the authority concerned to reopen the Catholic schools on or before April 30 in the interest of the future generations. A decision has also been taken by the AMSU in this regard during a joint meeting of the executive members of the AMSU and parents or guardians of the school children studying in Catholic schools. The AMSU while asking the school authorities...

GUWAHATI, April 23: The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) today demanded that India should snap all its ties with Bangladesh as the barbarism perpetrated by the Bangladeshi security forces on the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in Mankachar sector has exposed the attitude of the Bangladeshi authorities towards India, it said. Talking to The Assam Tribune here today, after a four-day visit to the Indo-Bangla border areas in Mankachar, as a leader of an AASU team, chief organising secretary of the AASU Inamul Haque said that the barbarism committed by the Bangladeshi authorities on...

NEW DELHI, April 23: India today declared it will not take "lightly the defilement of (BSF) men in uniform" and asked Bangladesh to act against the perpetrators of such "criminal adventurism" to restore confidence and trust, reports PTI. "Criminal adventurism is a crime. India will not accept defilement of men in uniform. We will not take it lightly," External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh said winding up a day-long discussion in the Rajya Sabha on the gruesome killing of BSF personnel on the Indo-Bangladesh border. Dismissing members' charge of intelligence failure, Jaswant Singh said "the...

MANKACHAR (Indo-Bangla Border), April 23: There is visible tension in the Boraibari border outpost area, in the adverse possession of Bangladesh, though the situation on the international boundary along Assam and Meghalaya was reported to be normal today, reports PTI. This correspondent who visited the border areas and Boraibari, where 16 BSF jawans were killed and another two injured by Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday, found Boraibari village almost deserted with a few men guarding cattle. The men refused to talk or even respond and ran away when hailed. The people, who pay revenue in Dhubri...