GUWAHATI, Dec 3 ? The Congress emerged as the single largest party in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) elections, bagging 27 of the total 57 wards for which polling was held last Monday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 13 wards while the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) secured 12. Independents won three wards while the NCP and the TGP got one each. Recounting was under way for one of the wards (No 12) where the AGP has emerged victorious on the first count.

It was a day of smiles, victory marches, sloganeering, disappointment and despondency for the contesting candidates who thronged...

AGARTALA, Dec 3 ? Tripura government has decided to issue red corner notice through the Interpol to detain five top ranking insurgents of two banned outfits of the state believed to be sheltering in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Thailand, reports PTI. Director General of Police (DGP) G M Srivastav told newsmen today that efforts are on to issue red corner notice through the Interpol for five more insurgents of National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) believed to have taken shelter in the three countries.

He, however, refused to divulge the name of the...

GUWAHATI, Dec 3: Notwithstanding deployment of additional forces, marauding Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) militants gunned down three more innocent Karbi villagers besides setting fire to about 30 houses at Mansing Teron village under Manja Police outpost about 18 kilometres away from Diphu in Karbi Anglong last night.

Police sources informed that a large group of KRA ultras raided the remote village at around 8 p.m. last night and opened indiscriminate fire from sophisticated weapons killing three Karbi persons including a 12-year-old boy and a woman and injured one.

The deceased were...

AGARTALA, Dec 2: BSF Inspector General Alexander Daniel has categorically said that no town or habitat of Tripura will fall in the other side of the barbed wire fencing being erected in the Indo-Bangla international border, reports PTI. The IG was commenting on the contention of Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar that if the fencing was constructed according to present norms, at least three subdivisional towns of the State ? Kailashahar, Belonia and Sahroom ? very close to the zero line, would be on the other sine of the fence.

Talking to newsmen here on the eve of the BSF Raising Day on...

SHILLONG, Dec 2: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), which has achieved remarkable success in anti-terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir, has set-up a counter-insurgency school in Assam?s Dayapur to teach its own personnel combat operations, reports PTI. The school, set up on the pattern of Army?s counter-insurgency and jungle warfare school in Mizoram?s Vairangte, has already trained six CRPF companies during 2002, top CRPF officials said here. Already courses of counter-insurgency and anti-terrorist operations were regularly conducted at two of the paramilitary force?s Central...