Insurgency / Tripura

AGARTALA, August 9: The Union home ministry has asked the Tripura government to make all-out efforts to locate the four Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) activists who were kidnapped by the National Liberation Front of Twipra (NLFT) rebels from Dhalai district on August 6. Official sources said here that the Union home secretary Kamal Pande had telephoned the state chief secretary V Tulsidas and inquired about the latest developments. The Union minister of state for communication, Kabindra Purakayastha, also had a telephonic talk with the chief minister, Manik Sarkar, who apprised Purakayastha...

AGARTALA, August 6: Four senior Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) leaders were today kidnapped by militants of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Twipra (NLFT) in Dhalai district, the police said. Two armed militants stormed a school run by the RSS nearly 82 miles away from the district headquarters and kidnapped the leaders at gun-point when they were inspecting the school without their securitymen.

NEW DELHI, August 5: The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the Tripura People's Democratic Front (TPDF) have said there will be no change in their previous collective decisions together with the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), Revolutionary People's Front (RPF), People's Revolutionary Party og Kangleipak (PREPAK) and National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) over the boycott of India's Independence Day celebrations "in our entire region". A statement issued by ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and TPDF president Ranjit Deb Barma appealed to the people of the Northeast to...

AGARTALA, July 29: Six paramilitary personnel were killed and an equal number of securitymen were wounded in landmine explosions in two different incidents in Tripura this months. Explosives are a new element in the operations and this change has caused serious concern to authorities. Sources claim that two outlawed organisations -National Liberation Front of Twipra (NLFT) and All-Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) have acquired an alarming stock of explosives from foreign soil. It was not immediately known whether the explosives included the dreaded RDX. Indian intelligence agencies have definite...

Agartala, July 13: The director-general of Tripura police K T D Singh has ordered an enquiry into arson and alleged assault on villagers at Takumbari and adjoining areas immediately after the killing of five Tripura State Rifles (TSR) jawans by insurgents there on July 10. Five TSR jawans and the driver of the vehicle were killed at Takumbari in South Tripura district on July 10 in an insurgent attack. After the incident, about 40 armed youths attacked three villages adjoining Takumbari and burnt at least 100 houses and physically assaulted the villagers, including women and children.

Agartala, July 12: Ten militants of the Tripura Tribal Youth Force (TTYF) laid down arms before Assam Rifles personnel at Ambassa on Saturday, Assam Rifles sources said on Sunday. The militants led by its self-styled 'zonal commander' Gajendra Tripura surrendered their guns before the Assam Rifles camp in Dhalai district.

Agartala, July 12: Maximum alert has been sounded in Tripura to deter Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (IS) agents and insurgents being trained in Bangladesh from entering the state through the porous border, according to the director-general of police (DGP) K T D Singh. Singh said that Tripura police suspected the hand of ISI and Bangladesh outfit Harkat-ul-Zihad in using landmines for the first time in an ambush by militants at Takumbari in South Tripura on July 10. Six persons, including five Tripura State Rifles (TSR) jawans, were killed in the ambush. The DGP, who visited the spot...