IMPHAL, June 6 ? Manipur government has extended the disturbed area status of the state under Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, for one more year from Sunday, a government notification said, reports PTI. The notification, issued Saturday, said the disturbed area status had been extended under the act to enable the armed forces aid the civil administration in tackling insurgents in the state.

Official sources said Manipur cabinet had on May 24 decided to extend the disturbed area status for one more year in view of increasing insurgency-related violence and incidents. The sources said...

AGARTALA, June 5 ? In the largest-ever surrender ceremony in the recent past 71 militants belonging to prescribed NLFT (Biswamohan group) and Borok National Council of Tripura, a fringe outfit, laid down arms before the IG CRPF Sukhjinder Singh Thursday. Thirty militants out of total 71 were hardcore extremists belonging to NLFT. Others from the BNCT used to work as local collaborators of the NLFT under the banner of BNCT. As many as 74 militants had earlier come overground at the initiatives of the CRPF battalions deployed in the state during the last three months on separate occasions. But...

IMPHAL, June 5 ? In a major breakthrough, a combined force of state police Wednesday gunned down Chief of Army Staff of the banned Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) who was involved in the kidnapping of many officials including a German national during an exchange of fire in Maphou dam area under Lamlai police station in Imphal east district.

Another leader identified as Thangkhomang Lupheng (28), a resident of Maphou dam area of the outfit was also arrested during an operation conducted at Games Village in Langol in Imphal West district in the wee hours of Wednesday. The additional director...

SHILLONG, June 6 ? ?We want to start the project for mining uranium in Domiasiat, West Khasi Hills district only with people?s cooperation,? Chairman, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL), Dr R Gupta declared on Thursday. ?Although the exploration for uranium deposits in Domiasiat was completed in 1992, mining has not been taken up till date due to the apprehensions in the minds of the people of the area and in the State of Meghalaya as a whole,? Gupta told reporters on the sidelines of a national seminar on ?Environmental and Sociological Implications of Mining of Minerals and Oil...

GUWAHATI, June 5? Monsoon has hit the eastern region on June 5 at 22 degree north and 920 east, said D. Sinha, Director meteorological centre, Guwahati. Talking to this correspondent the Director informed that the delayed monsoon has hit Silchar, Tezpur and has advanced upto Manipur, Nagaland and at eastern parts of Mizoram, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, he said. The delay in the onset of monsoon was due to the cyclonic winds in the month of May. The cyclonic wind has disturbed the normal pattern of monsoon, but with monsoon on rainfall is likely to occur in many places, in the North East, he...