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GUWAHATI, Dec 1: At least eight persons including one Army Major were killed and 10 others were injured in a clash between Armymen and villagers at Biharikota village near Kolitakuchi area under Hajo police station this afternoon. According to agency reports, nine persons were killed in the incident. The Inspector General of Police (Special Branch) Sri Khagen Sarma, said that it was a case of mistaken identity as the villagers mistook the Armymen as United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants and attacked them, and the Army platoon was forced to open fire in retaliation. Sri Sarma said...

KARIMGANJ, Dec 1: They are Indian citizens who remain cut off from India for twelve hours a day. It may sound surprising but this is the plight of the people of eight villages of Karimganj district bordering Bangladesh as their villages are located outside the border fencing. This correspondent recently witnessed the plight of these people during a visit to the Indo-Bangla border areas and it is unfortunate that till date the Government has not taken any concrete step to reduce the sufferings of these people. Eight villages of Karimganj district remained outside the border fencing, which was...

NEW DELHI, Dec 1: Mounting uncertainties arising from nonchalant attitude of the Central and State government, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and fresh logjam over additional subsidy obligation has put a question mark over implementation of the multi-crore gas cracker project. Opinion over the gravity of the latest crisis to hit the gas cracker project may differ, but everybody agrees that the project today stands at a critical juncture gasping for life. If the crisis that looms large over the project is again allowed to be mired into bureaucratic...

NEW DELHI, Dec 1: Describing the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka as the ?nerve centre? of ISI activities, a government publication has claimed that Pakistani intelligence officials have long been engaged in networking with and coordinating activities of north-eastern insurgent groups and Islamic extremists elements in Bangladesh, reports PTI. Besides making ?extensive inroads? into Bangladeshi organisations like Jamaat-e-Islami, Harkat-ul-Jehad al-Islami and several other ?anti-Awami League organisations?, the book says ISI operatives, ?in association with Directorate General of Forces...

IMPHAL, Dec 1: Security and police forces would be deployed at all vulnerable areas both in towns and rural areas of Manipur following stepped-up activities by unlawful organisations, official sources said on Sunday, reports PTI. The decision was taken at a high-level security meeting, presided over by Chief MInister Okram Ibobi Singh, which reviewed the law-and-order situation in the state, the sources said. The meeting, held on Saturday, and attended by high civil and security officials, also discussed the random checking of passers-by at many suspected places both in the hills and...