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SIVASAGAR, June 13 ? Arpan Saikia alias Niranjan Borthakur alias Keshav Mahanta, ULFA?s commander in-charge of Rongpur Anchalik Parishad was arrested by Dibrugarh district police and Army personnel at Pathalibam under Moran police station yesterday. Army walaid him as he was proceeding to a woman ULFA member?s house, Sivasagar police superientendent K V Sing Dev said today. According to police sources, Arpan Saikia joined ULFA in 1992 and was in Myanmar-based camp for most of the time. He was involved in atleast 20 different cases in Sivasagar. He is being interrogated jointly by...

AIZAWL, June 13 ? Mizoram Government has constituted an inquiry committee headed by Secretary for Relief Rehabilitation to look into allegations of misappropriation on payment of rehabilitation and resettlement to former underground Mizo National Front (MNF) activists, reports PTI. Replying to a query from KL Lianchia of the Mizoram People?s Conference and R Lalzirliana of Congress, Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Aichhinga informed the State Assembly today that the committee was enquiring into payment of rehabilitation to all 581 former MNF personnel. Aichhinga said that while State...

Imphal, June 13: Security personnel, believed to be Assam Rifles troops, seriously beat up several civilians, including a woman, during search operations in the early hours today at Thangmeiband Khoyathong Thingen Maru. According to local sources, several security personnel in combat fatigues forced their way into the house of one Naorem Andrin, 30, at Thangmeiband Polem Liekai and made a thorough search of the house. They also thrashed Andrin, and demanded that he produce the hidden UGs. The same security personnel later entered the house of one Sagolshem Inaocha Singh of the same locality...

Imphal, June 13: Though the Indo-Myanmar free trade agreement signed between the two countries has resulted in an import of Rs 5 lakhs items from Myanmar per day, the quantity and the category of trade items being exported from India to Myanmar still remains a big question. Following the agreement, the Myanmarese Government had constructed a massive market complex at Namphalong on the Myanmar side and selling numerous items thereby generating a big income to the Government. Above this, Myanmarese traders even descend on Moreh in the Indian territory for selling vegetables, fruits etc earning...

SHILLONG, June 12 ? Five years since the 100 per cent Centrally funded special scheme for modernisation of police forces in the North-eastern states was launched, the Union Home Ministry has made the admission that the condition of the police forces in the North East is ?quite poor?. It is an accepted fact that most of the militant outfits are better armed and equipped than the State police forces. The financial bankruptcy of the State governments in the region also hampered providing of modern arms and equipments to the police. The dismal situation led the Centre to formulate the special...