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KOHIMA, May 3 – Both the ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) and the Opposition Congress, locked in keen contest for the lone Parliamentary seat, have tried their level best to capitalise on the vexed Naga political problem during the month-long campaign for the May 5 Lok Sabha poll, reports PTI. The election machineries as well as the political parties are expecting a peaceful polling for the first time in the recent years as underground militant organisations resolved neither to boycott nor indulge in the election process in the State.

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SHILLONG, May 3 – Night curfew has been clamped within five-km range of the entire international border that Meghalaya shares with Bangladesh to pre-empt movement of arms and ultras. This was done following intelligence reports of an impending danger along the porous 425-km stretch of border that the State shares with the neighbouring country.

Earlier, curfew had been imposed along the stretch of border in the East Khasi Hills district only in the wake of reports of arms being ferried into India from Bangladesh. “Informations were received that arms are being smuggled into India from...

IMPHAL, May 3 – After registering a record in the Guinnesss Book of World Records by Moiranthem Okendra by planting the tallest “topiary plant (duranta)” it is now the turn of doctors serving in a private hospital to claim a similar record by performing a record operation in this tiny State. A team of doctors from Shija Hospital and Research Institute, a high-tech private hospital located at the foothill of Langol Hill Range near Imphal, added another feather in the State’s cap in this competitive world by removing the largest neck tumour (1.2 kg) from a 12-day-old infant.

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DHAKA, May 3 – A meeting of border forces of India and Bangladesh ended here today in disagreement over existence of terrorist camps in each other’s territory, even as the Indian side handed over a list of 195 camps of North East insurgents based in the neighbouring country, reports PTI. Although a joint statement of discussions was signed by BSF Director General Ajai Raj Sharma and his Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) counterpart Maj Gen Jehangir Alam Chowdhury agreeing to stop illegal cross-overs, the two sides engaged in allegations and counter-allegations over the issue of terrorist camps.

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Nagaon/Silchar, May 2: Delhi’s truce with the militant Dima Halam Daoga (DHD) in Assam’s North Cachar Hills and Karbi Anglong districts has run into rough weather with Dispur indicating it will petition the Union home ministry to rein in the group, much as it denies any ceasefire violation.

Sources said the officials of the two troubled districts informed the Tarun Gogoi government that it was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain law and order in the absence of a mechanism to check violation of the ceasefire. A senior official in the North Cachar Hills said: “We cannot be strong with...