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Huge cache of arms seized from DHD in Assam A huge cache of arms, including 28 AK-47 rifles, belonging to insurgent outfit DHD(J) was unearthed in central Assam's North Cachar Hills district, police said today. A joint team of police and Army recovered 48 assorted weapons buried in a jungle...

Gun-runner held in Manipur The troopers of 31 Assam Rifles have handed over a gun-runner, Hemkhopao Taothang, to the police on Tuesday along with a van and a huge assortment of bullets. He has been charged with being a member of the gang of the international gun-runners active along the border...

Militants blast railway tracks, Garibrath Express derails At least seven persons, including the train driver, were injured when five bogies and engine of the Kolkata-bound Garibrath Express derailed in the wee hours today after NDFP militants blasted railway track in Assam's Kokrajhar district...

Assam ultra leader's arrest in Nepal a mystery Kathmandu: Mystery shrouds the reported arrest of an Indian militant leader in Nepal with the Nepali authorities denying any knowledge of it. Nepal's home ministry Monday denied having any information about the arrest of Niranjan Hojai, leader of...

Top ULFA leaders to surrender soon: Pillai Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai says a number of top commanders and leaders of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) based in Bangladesh and Myanmar are expected to surrender shortly and join the peace process. "Some of them are senior...

Five militants killed in Manipur encounter Imphal, May 14, PTI: At least five militants were killed in an encounter with Assam Rifles in Chandel district of Manipur, police said here on Friday. The heavy exchange of fire between unknown militants and Assam Rifles personnel of 21st battalion...

Top HNLC insurgent caught on Indo-Bangla border Shillong, May 8 (PTI) A top leader of banned Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC), involved in a number of extortion and killing cases, has been apprehended by the BSF. Self-styled sergeant major Pariston Pakyntein was arrested near...

It's a betrayal by Bangladesh: Militant outfits Militant outfits in the northeast — the Manipur People's Liberation Front (MPLF), the National Liberation Front of Twipra (NLFT), the Tripura People's Democratic Front (TPDF), and the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB anti-talk faction)...

BDR hands over NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary to BSF Ranjan Daimary alias D R Nabla, chief of the anti-talks faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and wanted in the 2008 serial bomb blasts in Assam, was on Saturday handed over to BSF by BDR, official sources said. Daimary, who...