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Guwahati, March 29: The Assam government today said it would move the defence ministry if the one-man inquiry into the recent killing of a hog deer in Kokrajhar district establishes the alleged involvement of the army.

State forest minister Pradyut Bordoloi informed the Assembly that conservator of forests (western range) has been asked to conduct a probe into the incident and the army authorities have been requested to co-operate.

The minister made the statement when Bodoland Demand Legislature Party member Hemendra Nath Brahma drew the attention of the minister of state for home, Rockybul...

Imphal, March 29: The Kuki Liberation Army (KLA), abductor of Bonn-based social worker Heinrich Wolfgang, is keeping its doors open for negotiation despite its announcement yesterday that the aid worker would remain in captivity till such time as the integrity of his NGO, Evangelicher Entwicklungs Dienst, was established.

A team of NGOs continued negotiations for Wolfgang’s safe release for the fifth day today at an undisclosed place. No breakthrough could be made during the fourth round of talks yesterday. The team left the state capital early in the morning today to resume negotiations.

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Agartala, March 29: Tripura is heading for a major power crisis, with the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (Neepco) threatening to cut off electricity supply as the state government has not cleared its dues.

Till February 28, the state power department owed Neepco Rs 92 crore. In a statement, Neepco general manager P.K. Ghosh said despite repeated reminders, the Tripura government has failed to clear its dues. As a result, Neepco has not been able to pay suppliers of natural gas for its thermal plants.

“Besides, with such a huge amount in unpaid arrears, it is not possible on the...

DIBRUGARH, March 28 – A Subedar of the 28 Punjab Regiment, one Sukhwinder Singh, has brought a bad name to his unit as well as the Army as a whole. On Wednesday night, he allegedly tried to molest a lady from Calcutta who was staying at the city’s posh Little Palace Hotel. The lady, an engineer with a prominent steel making company, is these days in the city alongwith her husband. Last night, an Army team searched the hotel rooms, supposedly looking out for ULFA militants. This was around 8-45 pm.

About an hour later, the said Subedar (a Subedar is a junior commissioned officer, or JCO) again...

Imphal, March 28: The Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) today owned up to the abduction of Bonn-based social worker Heinrich Wolfgang and said his fate depended on the outcome of a “weeklong investigation” by its cadre into the motive behind German funding of development projects in Manipur.

A spokesman for the militant outfit said Wolfgang would remain in captivity till such time the integrity of his NGO, Evangelicher Entwicklungs Dienst, was established.

The statement was issued even as a team of representatives of local NGOs and the Church was preparing to resume negotiations with the abductors...