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ITANAGAR, July 2 ? The police in Arunachal Pradesh has arrested Anthony Doke, mastermind of the underground organization Revolutionary Army of Arunachal Pradesh which was floated a couple of months back. Acting on a tip-off, a police team led by inspector BS Behra, officer in charge of Naharlagun police station nabbed Anthony Doke and Lijum Noshi at Gremey village of West Siang district when they were sleeping on Monday, MM Oberoi, Papum Pare District Superintendent of Police told mediapersons. Police have seized several incriminating documents of Revolutionary Army of Arunachal Pradesh from...

AIZAWL, July 2 ? The ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) party on Monday observed the 16th anniversary of the signing of peace accord between the Centre and the erstwhile underground MNF on June 30, 1986 as the ?Remna Ni? or Peace Day, reports PTI. Addressing party workers at ?Hnam Run,? the party office here, MNF chief and State Chief Minister Zoramthanga urged the people of Mizoram to jealously protect and maintain the hard-earned peace at all costs. Zoramthanga said that covert peace efforts began as early as 1971 and official peace dialogue began in New Delhi in early 1976 which resulted in...

AGARTALA, July 2 ? A tribal housewife was killed by insurgents of the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), police Tuesday. Police said a group of armed NLFT ultras raided Ramkrishna Para village in West Tripura district last night and stormed the house of one Santosh Debbarma. As the houseowner was not present, the insurgents attacked his wife Khanjani Debbarma (24) with sharp weapons before fleeing from the area and she died on the spot, police added. A search operation has been launched in the area to nab the culprits, police said.

SIVASAGAR, July 2 ? Of 3420 hectares of illegally occupied land out of 4,834 hectares of Deroi-Rangoli Reserve Forest in Sivasagar district, 1,111 hectares have been thoroughly cleared of illegal encroachers by forest-officials during the 10-day eviction drive from June 3 to 13 last. The DFO, Forests, Sivasagar informed that most of the encroachers were established businessmen grabbing forest land rampantly in guise of small tea growers. The entire Deroi-Rangoli Reserved Forest was reduced to denuded wasteland area by unscrupulous timber traders who recklessly felled valuable trees...

GUWAHATI, July 2 ? More than 143 square kilometre of land belonging to the National Parks and wild-life sanctuaries in Assam is under encroachment by doubtful citizens and so far the State Government has not taken any step to evict those people, alleged the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP). In a petition to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Sri Hitendra Nath Goswami and Sri Dilip Kumar Saikia, the chief whip and secretary of the AGP legislature party, said that encroachment of the forest land by illegal settlers reached menacing proportion. A number of doubtful citizens managed to enter Assam...