NALBARI, Dec 21? Police today produced ULFA publicity secretary Mithinga Daimari and the five other militants handed over to it by the Army authorities last evening, before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalbari. They were remanded to five days police custody by the Court. Mithinga was captured by the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) at Sixth Mile on the northern part of Samdrup Jongkjhar town on December 16 where he was taking shelter in a solitary house. His two body guards were not around when the RBA raided the house. The RBA also seized Mithinga?s M-20 pistol.

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GUWAHATI, Dec 21 ? The Bhutanese Government is attaching priority to the safety of the unarmed women and children living in the Indian militants? camps in Bhutan. The Royal Government of the Himalayan kingdom is taking all the care to provide food and shelter to these inmates of the militant camps, said Director of Bhutanese Foreign Ministry Yeshey Dorji yesterday. He was talking to this correspondent at the regional Revenue and Customs Directorate of the kingdom?s Samdrup Jongkhar district yesterday.

When the Bhutanese official was talking to this correspondent at Samdrup Jongkhar, the...

Guwahati, Dec. 21: Cornered by Bhutanese troops but apparently more angry with the Indian army, a frustrated Ulfa today said the armed forces on this side of the Indo-Bhutan border had launched a propaganda war to ?demoralise? its ranks. Ulfa commander-in-chief Paresh Barua said in an interview to an Internet news portal that the army had wrongly announced the capture of a couple of its top leaders.

?Major Bening Rabha and Captain Biju Deka are very much present in Bhutan and leading the fightback. The news of their surrender and arrest has been spread by the Indian army to break the morale of...

GUWAHATI, Dec 21 ? The 48-hour Assam, Bodoland and Kamatapur bandh, the call for which was given jointly by ULFA, NDFB and KLO in protest against the Bhutan Government offensive against them, continued to evoke mixed response for the second day today. No untoward bandh related incident was reported from any part of Assam till the time of filing of this report. In Guwahati, the bandh continued to evoke mixed response as private vehicles continued to ply on the roads, while a few auto rickshaws also plied on the city roads. However, only a few city buses plied on the roads. The train and air...

GUWAHATI, Dec 21 ? The Royal Bhutan Army, in the operation against the militants, recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, which speaks volumes of the arms and ammunition available with the militant groups. Highly placed security sources revealed that as per the list of weapons recovered from the militant camps, which was handed over to the Government of India by the Bhutan Government, more than 700 weapons have so far been recovered from the militant camps. Sources said that the list submitted included 500 AK-47 rifles, about a hundred pistols and other sophisticated weapons like anti...