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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...

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...

Dimapur, April 30: Only a year ago, he was in the Congress, singing S.C. Jamir’s praises. But when he joined the ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) last year, little did ex-Congressman W. Wangyuh Konyak realise that those very paeans would land him in trouble.

The Congress recently released a video footage showing Nagaland People’s Front (NPF) candidate Konyak, fiercely defending Jamir’s leadership qualities and aggressively criticising his own party. The footage was part of a Congress campaign, highlighting various achievements of the party and its candidate Asungba Sangtam before...

Dimapur, April 30: The election scene in Arunachal Pradesh turned murkier with the militant National Liberation Front of Arunachal backing the All Arunachal Pradesh Students Union (AAPSU)’s call for a boycott of the Lok Sabha poll to protest the inclusion of Chakma and Hajong refugees in the electoral rolls.

In a statement today, the militant group’s chairman, K.H. Tara, appealed to the people of the state to support the AAPSU. “Time has come to teach the Indian government a lesson,” he said.

The group’s show of solidarity with the student organisation is perceived to be a move to garner...

SHILLONG, April 30— The Government of Meghalaya has ordered immediate closure of at least eleven saw mills in the state which were found to be working in gross violation of the Supreme Court order banning timber movement. The apex court, on January 15, 1998 had issued an order banning timber movement based on public interest litigation (PIL) lodged in 1995 seeking the court’s intervention to check depletion of forest cover in the country in general and the north eastern region in particular.

Sources in the Forest Department said that on inquiry that the eleven saw mills, located in parts of...