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India to erect single row fence along Bangladesh border AGARTALA, Sept 18 (IANS): India will erect single row fencing instead of double row fencing in several areas along the border with Bangladesh, officials said here Tuesday. About 80 percent of the 856-km India-Bangladesh international...

109 acres of ganja cultivation destroyed GUWAHATI, Sept 10 -- A team of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officers led by the Superintendent, Guwahati Zonal unit with the help of the State authorities, State Police, SSB and Forest officials, carried out destruction operations of illicit cannabis...

BJYM demands action against infiltrators Staff reporter GUWAHATI, Sept 10 – The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) on Monday slammed the Congress, both in the State and at the Centre, for its policy of appeasement of illegal infiltrators and demanded of the government to take strong action...

Massive rally against aliens in Lakhimpur Correspondent NORTH LAKHIMPUR, Sept 10 – A mammoth public rally was taken out in North Lakhimpur against the presence of illegal foreign nationals and continuous infiltration from across the Indo-Bangladesh border. The rally was convened by the North...

Call for sealing of Bangla border Staff reporter GUWAHATI, Sept 10 – A meeting convened by Asom Gana Sanmilan at the Pensioners' Bhawan, Guwahati, has made a strong pitch for sealing the Indo-Bangladesh border at the earliest besides detecting and deporting the illegal migrants living in the...

Tension prevails in Dhubri Staff reporter GUWAHATI, Sept 10 – Some elements are trying to create communal tension in Dhubri district by spreading rumours even as additional forces have been rushed to the district to bring the situation under control. Official sources told The Assam Tribune that...

Centre admits infiltration from Bangla Kalyan Barooah NEW DELHI, Sept 10 – Acknowledging that there was illegal infiltration from Bangladesh into the country, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday played safe, stressing a negotiated settlement of the vexed problem, while expressing...

High security in Assam after ULFA messages intercepted Guwahati, Sept 11 (IANS): Assam Police have intensified security arrangements after intelligence inputs that the anti-dialogue faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) led by Paresh Baruah alias Paresh Asom might try to attack...

14 arrested for Dhubri violence DHUBRI, Sept 9 – Altogether 14 people were today arrested for their alleged involvement in violence in Dhubri town following desecration of a place of worship, police said, reports PTI. The district administration, which had advanced the night time curfew in the...

Anti-talk ULFA owns up city blast Staff reporter GUWAHATI, Sept 9 – Police suspects the involvement of members of the hardline faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in the grenade blast in the Paltanbazar area of the city last evening, in which one CRPF man was killed and five...

Call for probe into BTAD conflicts Staff reporter GUWAHATI, Sept 9 – The United Movement for People's Right has urged the Centre to conduct a high-level inquiry into the recent Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District (BTAD) violence by a commission headed by a retired judge of the Supreme...

Future of State bleak if steps against influx not taken: Sinha R Dutta choudhury GUWAHATI, Sept 9 – If a Government, which is not friendly to India, manages to assume power in Bangladesh, the situation in Assam will be just like that of Kashmir, warned former Assam Governor, Lt Gen (Retd) SK...

Appeal for peace in Dima Hasao CORRESPONDENT HAFLONG, Sept 7 – Under the chairmanship of Dr M Ariz Ahammed, Commissioner of Hills and Barak Valley, a meeting on solidarity and integration was held at the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner, Dima Hasao, here on Thursday. Representatives...

Karbi bodies vow to fight influx CORRESPONDENT DIPHU, Sept 7 – Along with the rest of the State, the issue of influx of illegal immigrants has triggered massive protests in Karbi Anglong district too. Different student organisations and KSYC have urged the district administration to take all...

NSCN factions exchange heavy gunfire in Dimapur Correspondent DIMAPUR, Sept 7 – The expected quiet Thursday on account of the NESO bandh call was shattered in Dimapur when a fierce gun battle broke out between rival groups – NSCN (Khole-Kitovi) and NSCN (K) near Livingstone Higher Secondary...

Meghalaya detected 12,000 Bangladeshis since 2008 Raju Das SHILLONG, Sept 7 – The Union Government, which has no details about the magnitude of Bangladeshi infiltrators, could very well reach out to this Congress-run hill State of Meghalaya, which detected over 12,000 Bangladeshi infiltrators...

Manipur outfits warn migrants to leave by Dec 31 Sobhapati Samom IMPHAL, Sept 7 – Expressing serious concern over the continued influx of migrants in Manipur, the Coordination Committee of the seven Manipur based militant groups have asked the migrants to leave the State for bringing a solution...

Bhutan expels illegal Indian immigrants Kalyan Barooah NEW DELHI, Sept 7 – The Centre may be dithering over expelling illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, but neighbouring Bhutan issued expulsion orders to 31 illegal Indian immigrants last year, despite pressures from New Delhi. India could draw...

Special anti-terror Act extended in Tripura AGARTALA, Sept 8 (IANS): The Tripura government has extended for another six months the operation of a stringent law that gives sweeping powers to para-military troopers deployed in disturbed areas to curb terrorism, an official said here Saturday...

Tension in Dhubri after desecration of place of worship Dhubri, Sept 8 (PTI): Police today fired in the air to disperse a mob protesting the damage to a place of worship and theft of ornaments worth Rs two lakh from there in Assam's Dhubri district, police said. Police fired six rounds in the...