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Gogoi facing flak over land swap with Dhaka
The recent land swap agreement between India and Bangladesh may spill into a major controversy in Assam as no agency on the ground knows from where the 1,240 acres of land that chief minister Tarun Gogoi claims to have retrieved from Bangladesh in South Assam’s Karimganj sector will actually come.
Land swapping deal creates confusion
The coloured flags flying on a stretch of about 3 km in between Lathitilla and Dumabari divide territory of India with Bangladesh in Karimganj, a frontier district of southern Assam.
India, bangla get ready for N-E joint ops
The Border Security Forces (BSF), with its counterpart in Bangladesh — Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) — has started identifying sensitive patches along the international border to start joint-patrolli
‘Arunachal integral part of India’
Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani here on Thursday said that scams dogging the UPA government is tarnishing India’s image abroad, but the “indecisiveness” of the ruling Congress Party in taking effective steps against corruption has resulted in “misrule and price rice”.
Govt, Ulfa 2nd round talks Oct. 25
The home ministry will be holding the second round of peace-talks with the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom on October 25 in New Delhi.
PM N-E package fails to take off
The growing interest of China in the Northeast militancy and deployment of its Army along the international border has become a major area of concern for the home ministry, which is extremely worried
Naxal plan to procure Chinese arms foiled
The arrest of two PLA rebels in New Delhi has not only busted the link of Left wing Maoist groups with northeast rebels but also foiled their attempt to procure consignment of sophisticated weapons fr
Wife of AGP MLA shot dead by security officer
A personal security officer (PSO) of the Assam police on Sunday shot dead wife of AGP-MLA and then tried to kill himself by opening fire by his service machine gun.
Arunachal crisis puts aicc in a fix
In what has further complicated the problem of the Congress leadership in Arunachal Pradesh, a mega-dignity rally of two organisations of the Nyishi community — one of the largest communities in the multi-ethnic frontier state — has threatened to intensify their agitation to oust chief minister Jarbom Gamlin.
MLAs confined, allege wives
The wives of the Arunachal Pradesh Congress Legislature Party has lodged a formal complaints to governor Gen. J.J. Singh (Retd) that their husbands are kept under confinements and not allowed to visit their respective homes as
