CHURACHANDPUR, April 22: Personnel of the 32nd Bn Border Security Force, BSF posted at Bungmual, Churachandpur have been charged of attempted kidnapping and beating up of a Churachandpur businessman following a row over soft drink price. On the evening of April 13 at about 8.45 pm seven personnel of the BSF came to Sagar Maljain's shop along the Tiddim road to buy some bottles of soft drinks and there was haggling over prices. Eyewitnesses said the BSF personnel threatened Sagar Maljain with dire consequences and took him in their custody by force after blindfolding him. However on the...

IMPHAL, April 22: The All Manipur Students' Union (AMSU) has called upon the authorities who run catholic schools in and around Imphal to reopen their schools on or before April 30 in the interest of the students. A joint meeting of the executive members of the AMSU and parents of over 15,000 students studying in the seven catholic schools was also held at the hall of Dhanamanjuri College of Arts here this morning. One Nilakomol, a guardian of a student of Little Flower School, was the chief guest and secretary general of AMSU headquarters, Premananda Yumnam presided over the gathering. The...

IMPHAL, April 22: Consequent upon the attack carried out by underground cadres on a BSF convoy at Kwakta yesterday that claimed the life of a jawan, a combined force of security forces allegedly released their ire on the villagers of Liklai village and set seven houses aflame. Liklai village is in Churachandpur district and is located about 7 kms from Kwakta. Villagers who had to bear the brunt of the security personnel's ire and angst said the combined force came to their village at about 5 pm and fired four 2-inch mortar towards the village. Terrified villagers fled the scene thereafter. The...

NEW DELHI, April 21: India today lodged a strong protest with Bangladesh over the "inhuman treatment" of BSF personnel killed in Boraibari and demanded immediate return of two injured soldiers in Bangladeshi custody, reports PTI. As a shocked nation woke up to a photograph of the body of a BSF jawan being carried like an animal and watched gruesome pictures of the mutilated bodies of the soldiers on TV channels, Foreign Secretary Chokila Iyer summoned Bangladesh High Commissioner Mostafa Farooque Mohammed to the Foreign Office and conveyed New Delhi's concern over the brutality inflicted on...

NEW DELHI, April 21: Former Chief Minister, Syeda Anwara Taimur, Hemaprabha Saikia, wife of the late Hiteshwar Saikia and several former ministers of Assam figure in the list of 122-Congress candidates for state Assembly polls released by the AICC today, reports PTI. Releasing the list at the AICC headquarters here, party spokesman S Jaipal Reddy told reporters the party would be contesting all the 126 Assembly seats in the state "on its own" and that the remaining five names would be declared tomorrow. The last date for filing nomination in Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and...