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Imphal, June 03: The crackdown by the Assam Rifles on the villages located in the vicinity of Liplen Kuki village, where 11 AR men were killed in an ambush last Monday, is still continuing without any intervention from the state authorities, according to reports reaching here. Apart from the AR troops posted at the Sanakeithel post, troops from Assam Rifles posts at Kachai in Ukhrul and Kangpokpi have descended on the area since May 28 afternoon. Reports said atrocities by the AR personnel against civilians have continued over the last week in various villages in the area. Eleven villagers of...

AGARTALA, June 2? A joint core group between businessmen of India and Bangladesh would be formed at regional level to enhance border trade and other bi-lateral relations, reports PTI. The Chambers of Commerces of Agartala and Dhaka would form the core group to explore avenues leading to enhance foreign trade, tourism, communication, towards enhancing trade trend and sign a memorandum of understanding in August in Dhaka, State Industries Minister Pabitra Kar said on Saturday. The decision was taken at the Indo-Bangla talks that ended here on Friday. Kar said business groups of two sides would...

ITANAGAR, June 2 ? Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet has expressed serious concern over the ineffective functioning of the various State Government undertakings and co-operations. Arunachal Pradesh Industrial Development and Financial Corporations, Arunachal Pradesh Forest Corporations and Arunachal Pradesh Mineral Development and Trading Corporations, with huge liabilities of Rs 58.74 lakh, Rs 911 lakh and 14000 are the three corporations, which are running under loss. ?Despite having funds, some of the State government undertakings are under huge liabilities with a large amount of negative balance...

GUWAHATI, June 2 : A team of Assam Forest Protection Force and forest staff led by South Guwahati Range Officer Dilip Kalita arrested a timber smuggler Md Chiraj Ali and seized two elephants while they were being engaged in pulling smuggled logs at Kayempathar area along Assam-Meghalaya border on May 31. A mahout and a mohori too have been nabbed along with the elephants. It may be mentioned that Md Chiraj Ali had been using the two elephants to bring smuggled logs from Assam to Meghalaya, taking advantage of the pre-occupation of the forest staff in eviction works since May 7. The elephants...

GUWAHATI, June 2 ? The indigenous people of Tripura have been totally outnumbered by outsiders and if unabated infiltration is allowed to continue, Assam will face the same fate in the years to come, said the leaders of the Tripura Students? Federation (TSF). Talking to newsmen here today, Sri Prasanta Deb Barma and Sri Subodh Deb Barma, the president and vice-president respectively of the TSF, said that as per the last census, Tripuras? population was 37 lakh, out of which only eight lakh were indigenous people. They said that the indigenous people of Tripura have lost their political and...