The NDFB(S) group that is suspected to have carried out the deadly attack in Assam’s Kokrajhar district on Friday has strong links with ISI, says former DGP Assam Ghanashyam Murari Srivastava. GMS said that the militant group was mentored by the Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence to carry out terror strikes in Assam in a…
Read moreMaoist chief Prachanda was elected by lawmakers as Nepal’s Prime Minister for a second time. The 61-year-old leader promised to lead the nation toward economic development and work as a bridge between communities following deadly protests over a divisive new Constitution. Though Pushpa Kamal Dahal — better known by his nom de guerre ‘Prachanda’ —…
Read moreNepal’s former Maoist rebel chief Prachanda looked set to become prime minister after no other candidate emerged on Tuesday, raising hopes that his government, the 24th in 26 years, would be more stable than its predecessors. The election of a new prime minister, due in parliament on Wednesday, became necessary after K.P. Oli resigned last…
Read moreSUBHAMOY BHATTACHARJEE CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, August 1, 2016: Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) units of the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) – the wildlife rescue, care and rehabilitation facility jointly run by Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), Assam Forest Department (AFD) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) – have attended 107 wildlife rescue…
Read moreSUBIR BHAUMIK India wants to get ULFA leader Paresh Baruah to the table to expedite the Assam peace process after having brought into the peace process most of the rebel top guns including Anup Chetia. Sri Sri Ravishankar was recently involved in an effort to bring Baruah to the table and there was optimism among…
Read moreTripura entered the broad gauge railway map of the country today with Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagging off the Agartala-New Delhi Tripura Sundari Express. The foundation stone for the much awaited railway track to link Agartala to Akhaura in Bangladesh was jointly laid at the programme by Prabhu and his Bangladeshi counterpart Md Mujibul Haque. Tripura Sundari Express…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT Schools unable to run busses for students have been forced to suspend classes in various schools in state capital Agartala as Tripura loom into its worst ever fuel crisis over the last two months. Most private schools provide bus to pick up students. The school management say it has become impossible for them…
Read moreThe plenary meeting of Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) being held in Mai Ja Yang, Kachin State, will be extended for one more day because a number of issues remain to be deliberated. Meeting organising committee spokesman Padoh Kwe Htoo Win told, “We plan to extend [the meeting] tentatively for one more day. There are many…
Read moreEminent author and social activist Mahasweta Devi, whose writings focused on the marginalised communities in the country and served as the voice of the oppressed, died here today after a multi-organ failure. She was 91. She was suffering from multi-organ failure and died at Kolkata’s premier nursing home Belle Vue. She suffered a cardiac arrest following…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT Bangladesh police have killed nine suspected Islamist extremists in a gun battle after storming a militant hideout in the capital Dhaka, officials say Police says they were ‘most likely’ members of Jamaat ul Mujahideen (JMB) that staged the massive July 1 attack on Gulshan cafe and later at Sholokia Eid grounds in Kishoreganj….
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Election Commission of India has decided to deploy at least 480 companies of Central Forces in various troubled parts of West Bengal from March 1
