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GUWAHATI, June 10 ? The Assam Police and the BSF today decided to establish a monitoring system for joint cooperation along the international border, reports PTI. In a meeting between top Assam policemen and BSF officials here, it was decided to jointly work on detection work with coordination with other law-enforcing agencies, official sources said here. All the watch posts required to check infiltration across the border would be geared up and emphasis would be given for maintaining better records in the concerned watch posts. The meeting decided to give top priority to check infiltration...

Imphal, June 10: The 2nd death anniversary of renowned personality Arambam Samarendra was held all over the State today. Founder general secretary and chairman of the UNLF, Samarendra was shot .dead on this day two years back long after he came overground and was leading a retired life. Various organizations came together and organized functions at different places to remember the man who was assassinated two years back. A symposium on the life and works of Samarendra was held at MU Centenary Hall jointly organized by Uniline and Research Club, Manipur University. MU VC Professor Hijam Tombi...

Imphal, June 10: The underground People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, PREPAK has rejected the claim by the Zomi Revolutionary Army, ZRA, that the six PREPAK members slain in the June 1 encounter had opened fire first on the cadres of the ZRA and that they had been killed without any knowledge of their identities. The PREPAK, in a statement issued here, reiterated that the six slain cadres had been shot at close range, and their bodies bore evidence that they had been beaten up before being shot. It said the PREPAK’s version of events had been verified from a spot enquiry and from the...

Imphal, June 10: The Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) has strongly refuted the charges hurled by Kuki National Army (KNA) which was published in leading local dailies recently. A statement signed by information and publicity secretary Rocky Kuki pointed out that the Leplen ambush on AR personnel on April 27 "was in retaliation to the inhuman killings of its cadres by AR." It also accused one David Singson, "an informer of the AR" for the killings and maiming of its cadres. Commenting on the issue of KRA wresting Zaienphai village chiefship, it clarified that David Singson was never the chief of...

GUWAHATI, June 9 ? The obstruction put up by the Ri-Bhoi district administration and Meghalaya Police to the survey operations carried out by the Kamrup district administration in Pilingkata area has threatened to embitter the otherwise cordial relations between the Governments of Assam and Meghalaya.

According to Kamrup district administration sources here, one EAC from Ri-Bhoi district held pubic meetings in the localities Pilingkata and Moukhuli of Maidam village on the southern fringe of Guwahati city on June 6. The next day, when the Kamrup District Revenue officials went to the...