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ITANAGAR, May 2 – A 48-hour State-wide bandh has been called by All Arunachal Pradesh Students Union (AAPSU) from May 4 to enforce its call for boycott of the May 5 polls to the two Lok Sabha seats in the State in protest against the inclusion of names of 1497 Chakma-Hajong refugees in the electoral rolls, reports PTI. The bandh, to begin from 5 am on May 4, was called following a decision taken at the AAPSU federal meeting held at Arunachal University on April 22, a press release issued by the student union president Byabang Taj said today. The meeting was held after talks between an AAPSU...

GUWAHATI, May 2—With Jehadi Islamic militancy on the rise across the globe, security agencies in the North East are worried about its spread in the region. With the region already embroiled in a large number of secessionist movements, there are fears that the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) may fire the imagination of susceptible young minds, among the Muslims here, with “ultra-fundamentalist” propaganda.

What has caused alarm in security circles here is the steady growth in the number of madrassas in the region, particularly in the states bordering Bangladesh. Among these states...

TURA, May 1 –The residents of Mahendraganj town, a booming border town of West Garo Hills facing Bangladesh, have decided to take the extreme step in airing their grievances by putting a stop to the payment of their electricity bills by May 31 unless the bleak power scenario brightens soon.

The inhabitants of Mahendraganj and its neighbouring villages have been facing several problems since the last many years. Though the town has been electrified since many years ago the voltage is extremely low during the peak evening hours. From 5 pm to 10 pm voltage is so low that it is virtually...

AGARTALA, May 1– Tripura People’s Democratic Forum, the political wing of the banned All Tripura Tiger Force, has alleged that the Tripura police were intimidating the relatives of insurgents to compel the outfit to sit for peace talks. In a press statement , a copy of which was given to PTI, the Front said it would negotiate only after three conditions were fulfilled by the government. “There was no point of joining the peace talks unless the conditions were fulfilled.”

The first condition was that those who entered Tripura after 1949 and whose names were not included in the voters’ lists...

SHILLONG, May 1 – The problem of insurgency in the north eastern region of the country is within ‘manageable’ limits of the security forces, newly appointed Director General of the Assam Rifles, Lt. Gen. Bhupinder Singh has said. “The level of insurgency is well below the threshold,” Lt. Gen. Singh, who assumed office as the new Director General of the elite para-military force at the Directorate General Assam Rifles (DGAR) Headquarters here on Friday, observed.

Lt. Gen. Singh, decorated with the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) and the Visisht Seva Medal (VSM) and a veteran of the Indian Army...