NEW DELHI, April 2 – Security agencies here have gone into a tizzy following reports that at least 10 truckloads of sophisticated weapons were seized in Bangladesh. The huge consignment was reportedly on its way to the North-East. According to sources here, acting on a tip off, security agencies in the neighbouring country today consficated a big huge cache of AK-47 assault rifles and other small arms in a pre-dawn raid at Chittagong. The weapons carefully sealed in large wooden boxes and jute bags were in the process of being loaded in two country boats on the banks of the River Karnafuly...

IMPHAL, April 2— Nine including two lady candidates are likely to fight for the Scheduled Tribe reserved seat in Manipur on April 20 next. Manipur will go to the polls on April 20 and April 26 for two parliamentary seats—the Outer and the Inner. Outer seat is reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidates.

Till the last date of filing nomination altogether eight candidates have filed their nomination papers for the Outer Manipur parliamentary constituency for the ensuing 14th Lok Sabha elections on Wednesday afternoon. Former minister Morung Makunga who filed his nomination as an independent...

GUWAHATI, April 2 – The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has nominated Sailen Hanse, a retired Senior BDO and a resident of Diphu as its candidate for the Autonomous District Lok Sabha constituency. Earlier, the AGP was supposed to extend support to the Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC) for the Lok Sabha seat. But following the role of the ASDC’s two legislators in the recent elections to the two Rajya Sabha (RS) seats for the State, the AGP has decided to field its own candidate for the seat, said AGP general secretary Dilip Kumar Saikia here this evening. The ASDC legislators had cast their...

JORHAT, April 2 – The Auniati Satra Satradhikar, Dr Pitambar Deva Goswami, formally announced institution of a ‘Srimanta Sankardeva Research Fellowship Trust’ with a capital investment of Rs 1 lakh. He made the revealation as above while presiding over the open session of the ‘Sant Samaroh’ at the Sammannay Sadhan Kshetra of Teok Kaliapani, to the east of the city here on Sunday.

“Instituted in hallowed memory of 16th Century saint reformer Srimanta Sankardeva, an annual grant will henceforth be offered to a deserving research scholar pursuing a theological topic,”, he said. “The thesis will...

SHILLONG, April 2— Meghalaya is going to receive Rs 80 crore (1.96 billion yen) from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) for renovation and modernisation of Umiam Stage II Hydro Power Station, Meghalaya State Electricity Board (MeSEB) sources have revealed. Meghalaya is one of the recipients of the Official Development Assistance (ODA), routed through JBIC, a Japanese Government's official agency extending ODA loan assistance to developing countries, amongst eight mega projects involving the States of Delhi, West Bengal, Uttaranchal, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and...