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GUWAHATI, June 24 ? Five persons were killed and seven others critically injured when suspected Dima Halong Daogah (DHD) militants ambushed a party of ONGC and CISF personnel near Dhansiri railway station in Karbi Anglong district around 3.30 pm today, police sources here said. A convoy of seven vehicles carrying personnel of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was returning from Dhansiri area to Diphu town when the DHD militants opened indiscriminate fire on the party. Engineer RC Kakati, Joyram Timung, an employee and driver CR Hanse of ONGC...

Imphal, June 24: For the moment Chief Minister O Ibobi and his men can rest in peace as the 'post merger crisis' that had threatened to rock the boat of the Secular Progressive Front Government has blown over with the Steering Committee of the Front accepting the merger of the 11 MLAs with the Congress after a marathon meeting today. The Steering Committee meeting started at 3 pm and stretched on till 7.30 in the evening and was presided by MSCP president and co-chairman of the Steering Committee Th Chaoba. Along with granting cognizance to the merger of the 11 MLAs the meeting resolved to...

Imphal, June 24: The outbreak of suspected malarial fever, typhoid fever and viral fever in Moreh area seems not to have been contained totally as the inflow of patients at the Moreh CHC is still continuing. Doctors and staffers in the CHC are on red alert round the clock to treat the patients. Despite facing frequent power failure in the small border town, the doctors manage to treat the patients using candle lights. A Medical Officer of the centre told this reporter that currently, about 20 patients are being treated in the centre. Alarmed by the epidemic, specialists including...

GUWAHATI, June 23 ? Veteran freedom fighter, politician, writer and a leading jurist of the State Gaurishankar Bhattacharyya, who for his oratory skill and political acumen could command respect even from his political rivals during his heydays as a legislator, is no more. According to family sources, the end came at 6-15 pm today at the Guwahati Neurological Research Centre (GNRC) here. He was 87. Sri Bhattacharyya had an accidental fall at his Ulubari GS Road residence here on June 4. This resulted in a fracture in his left hip joint and subsequently he was shifted to the GNRC where on June...

NAGAON, June 23 : The Government of India has prepared an action plan for the North-east India to flush out the militants operating from different hideouts in the neighbouring countries. Disclosing this at a press conference here today, Union Defence Minister George Fernandes said that the action plan had been prepared with the help of the neighbouring countries with an eye on getting desired results in containing militancy. He, however, refused to divulge more on the action plan.

On supply of arms and ammunition across the Indo-Myanmar border by the militant groups in the region, Fernandes...