AGARTALA, May 6 – The breakaway Biswamohan faction of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) today surrendered before the Tripura Governor DN Sahaya. A total of 72 militants including 22 women cadres laid down their firearms in a formal surrender ceremony held at Arundhutinagar Police-line. The group was led by six top commanders of NLFT Biswamohyan faction – self -styled vice-president Kamini Debbarma, general secretary Mantu Koloy, finance secretary Bishnuprasad Jamatia, assistant finance secretary Dhanu Koloy, chief of army staff Benoy Debbarma and deputy army chief of the...

SAIK TAMPAK (Manipur), May 6 : The Army is not ready to take up any Bhutan type operation along the Indo-Myanmar border to flush out insurgents. In the recent past Indian forces had teamed up with their Bhutan counterparts to flush out the United Liberation Front of Assam (ulfa) as well as some other outfits which had camps along the Indo-Bhutan border.

Similarly based on the intelligence inputs, army authorities after identifying the movements of the ultras, recently launched an unnamed flushing out operation since mid-April this year on the ground that many of the banned underground...

GUWAHATI, May 6 – Different tea tribe organisations and the Congress today lambasted the AGP and the AASU over the AGP’s poll slogan at Dibrugarh urging the voters to “elect Sarbananda Sonowal if they were Assamese,” and gave the two an ultimatum to clarify as to who were the Assamese by May 10.

“The AGP and the AASU, by their shameless act to further their narrow political interests, have struck at the very core of the composite Assamese society. The tea tribe people have been living here for over 150 years, assimilating totally with the Assamese culture. And now all of a sudden, they are...

KOHIMA, May 6 – NSCN (IM) today refuted allegations that the outfit was involved in the election process in Nagaland but admitted that its cadre might take part in the electioneering at their individual capacity to support or oppose any contending candidate, reports PTI. Large-scale proxy voting, intimidation of voters marked Wednesday’s Lok Sabha polling in the State recording voters turnout at 80 to 85 per cent with Opposition Congress alleging that NSCN (IM) activists were threatening villagers to vote for ruling alliance candidate in the run up to the poll and the polling day.

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AIZAWL, May 6 – The Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF) and the underground Bru National Liberation Front have refuted allegations by Mizoram Opposition parties that the BNLF leaders forcibly collected 3,620 postal ballot papers, reports PTI. A press release issued by the MBDPF, faxed to media here from Kanchanpur in North Tripura, said free and fair polls to Mizoram’s lone Lok Sabha seat was conducted in the relief camps in Tripura on April 20.

“The postal ballot papers, after each voter exercised their franchise, were placed inside envelopes which were sealed and were collected by...