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NEW DELHI, July 10 ? A simultaneous crackdown on North East-based militants operating along with the Indo-Myanmar border and growing incidence of drug trafficking in the region were the focus of the Eighth National Level Meeting between the two countries that got underway here today. By persuading the military regime to mount crackdown on the North-east militants, mostly those belonging to Manipur including the NSCN(K) faction, India hopes to take the fight to the insurgents? doorstep. The massive crackdown on one NSCN(K) faction by the Myanmar Army in which the outfit?s headquarters was...

UDALGURI, July 10 ? At a time, when the State Police department has been observing ?Operation Green Earth Project? throughout the State with the help of other government and non-governmental social and nature organisations, conscious citizens of Udalguri area expected that the illegal felling of valuable logs by antisocial elements would come to a (temporary) end, but ignoring all such government efforts to check the deforestration process, the felling of valuable trees in and around Indo-Bhutan foothills and Assam - Arunachal foothills has been going on unabated and it is feared that the...

Imphal, July 10: Drama gripped the proceedings of the House today when L Lala of the Congress was elected unopposed as Deputy Speaker of the Assembly amidst a walk out staged by the Opposition in the morning sitting of the ongoing Monsoon session today. The Opposition staged the walk out alleging that procedures for electing the Deputy Speaker were flouted by the ruling Front. Lala was elected from Khundrakparn constituency on a Samata Party ticket and was among the three Samata Party MLAs to switch side to the Congress from the Opposition bloc, DPA recently. The sign of things to come...

GUWAHATI, July 9 ? More than 2.26 lakh people of seven districts of the State have so far been affected in the first wave of floods this year, which started on June 21, an official release said. The release said that as many as 269 villages of the districts of Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Darrang, Goalpara, Nalbari and Kamrup have been attached by the floods so far this year. The total area affected is 15,618 hectares, of which 13,449 hectares are crop land. The worst hit Dhemaji district remained cut off from the rest of the State for the seventh day today. The road link to Dhemaji was snapped on July...

GUWAHATI, July 9 ? The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) have started relocating their training camps fearing a joint military operation in the southern part of Bhutan. Highly-placed official sources today disclosed that the leadership of the militant outfits have stepped up vigilance in the southern part of the Himalayan Kingdom to avoid causality during operations.

?According to reports, the militant groups have jointly set up monitoring cell in Samdrup Jongkhar to keep a watch on the movement of security personnel along the border...