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...

SHILLONG, May 1– Cadres of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) are hiding in the jungles of the Garo Hills in Meghalaya, Assam and Meghalaya Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Ajai Singh has said. “We are aware that ULFA cadres, on the run following counter-insurgency operations in Bhutan have sneaked into the Garo Hills from Assam and have been hiding there,” Lt. Gen. Singh said during a brief interaction with the media after being sworn in as the Governor of Meghalaya at the Raj Bhavan in Shillong on Saturday.

Governor Singh would be in charge of Meghalaya for a period of one month as...

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...

GUWAHATI, May 1 – Growing presence of terrorist outfits including the Al Qaeda in the neighbouring country Bangladesh poses a serious security threat not only to the North Eastern region of India but also to the entire country and the recent arms haul in Chittagong port has sent shock waves among the security agencies as it is believed that the arms were on their way to India. Highly placed security sources told The Assam Tribune that the arms recovered recently in Bangladesh included AK series rifles, Uzi sub machine guns, rocket propelled grenades, 1.84 crore rounds of ammunition, etc and...