IMPHAL, April 23: An intelligence officer who recently returned to Imphal after serving a long time in Ukhrul was today shot down by a lone assailant at Dingko road Dewlahland in broad daylight. Deputy field officer of Special Bureau (SB) Imphal branch, BK Mishra 35 of Bihar was coming out of a privately owned telephone booth at Chingmeirong when the assailant who came in a three wheeler got down and shot him two times before leaving the scene without much ado towards Lamlong bazar. Mishra received a bullet on his head and another on his back. The incident took place at around 2:15 this...

MANKACHAR, April 22: The situation in the Mankachar subdivision of Dhubri district bordering Bangladesh is limping back to normalcy as the villagers, who fled to safer places in the face of heavy exchange of fire between the Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), have started returning to their deserted villages. Meanwhile, after visiting the affected area, Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta today demanded that security measures along the border should be strengthened by deploying more forces. As many as 16 BSF men were brutally killed by BDR men and local villagers, while...

NEW DELHI, April 22: Eight of the 15 BSF soldiers, killed by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel along the Indo-Bangla border were shot dead to point blank range after being brutally tortured while another was strangulated, Home Secretary Kamal Pande said today reports PTI. "It is a brutal act of murder," Pande told reporters after a high-level meeting presided over by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to discuss the killing of BSF soldiers at Boraibari along the Assam border and the intrusion by BDR in Pyrdiwah in Meghalaya. The meeting was attended by Home Minister LK Advani, Defence and...

TURA, April 22: The fifteen Border Security Force (BSF) jawans, tortured and killed in the hands of Bangladesh Rifles, were yesterday given full military honours in the presence of the BSF Director General (DG), Gurbachan Jagat, at Tura Praharinagar 118 Battalion of BSF. Earlier, a post-mortem was again done by government doctors at Tura. Jagat, while interacting with the jawans, called upon them to be brave and not to be deterred by what Bangladesh had done. He said that the BSF would not be cowed down by such an act perpetrated by Bangladesh. Jagat who was scheduled to leave for Delhi, the...

IMPHAL, April 22: A high yielding new variety of rice has been introduced during a function at the Moirang Thangjing Temple Complex today. Ex-deputy speaker L Ibomcha and Moirang Thanjing Phamnaiba A Amuyaima were the chief guest and president of the function. The new variety of rice named Ayang Lairembi Phou will be first cultivated at the fields of Moirang Thangjing before it is released for public cultivation. Speaking at the occasion, A Jugindro, Director Bio Research cum Extension Services said the Ayang Lairembi Phou is a variety well suited for the State. The around 100 cm tall variety...