With Bangladesh continuing its crackdown against militants active in northeast India, 10 more terrorists, including four women, have fled from that country and surrendered to Indian authorities this week, officials said here Saturday.
Four All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) guerrillas fled from their camps in Khagrachari in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in southeast Bangladesh and surrendered [...]
Kolkata, Dec 26 (IANS) Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists Saturday started a relay hunger strike at four places in Darjeeling district in West Bengal in an apparent attempt to keep up the pressure for creation of a separate Gorkhaland state.
‘This relay hunger strike will continue till our demand for Gorkhaland is met,’ GJM general secretary [...]
Agartala, Dec 26 (IANS) Paramilitary troopers have apprehended eight heavily armed tribal guerrillas including a young woman in Tripura, officials said Saturday.
‘During a counter-insurgency operation, Assam Rifles troopers Friday night detained eight dreaded terrorists of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) in north Tripura’s Kanchanpur area,’ said Assam Rifles spokesman Dinesh Thakur.
A large cache [...]
Darjeeling (West Bengal), Dec 21 (IANS) There was no consensus on the issue of a Gorkhaland state but discussions to find a solution to the problem would continue, union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said here Monday after meeting representatives of the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) and the state government.
‘We had detailed discussions with the [...]
Kolkata, Dec 20 (IANS) Cautioning the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) leadership that the situation may turn ‘critical’ if it maintained a rigid stance on the Gorkhaland issue, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Sunday said dialogue was the best possible way to solve the matter.
Speaking to mediapersons a day ahead of the tripartite talks scheduled to [...]
Agartala, Dec 17 (IANS) Seven more tribal separatists from the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have surrendered to security forces after fleeing their camps in Bangladesh, police said Thursday.
‘The Bangladesh-trained tribal guerrillas led by their self-styled captain Ramsai Reang, 34, surrendered before senior officers of the Tripura State Rifles (TSR) and Assam Rifles [...]
Siliguri, Dec 12 (IANS) Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) president Bimal Gurung said Saturday they would continue to push for a separate Gorkhaland state until the central government conceded their demand.
Meanwhile, GJM activists continued their protest rallies and fast-unto-death protests in different parts of the hills areas in northern West Bengal.
‘The Gorkhaland demand is 102-years old [...]
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Darjeeling MP Jaswant Singh Friday said the demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland was ‘valid’ and added that if ‘legitimate demands’ were met, then violence would not be an option.
‘If legitimate and valid demands are met in time, then there is no need for protests or violent protests for [...]
Agartala, Dec 3 (IANS) Bangladesh has been taking action against terrorists from India’s northeast, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here Thursday, a day after top ULFA leader Ababinda Rajkhowa was reported to have been taken into custody there.
‘Setting their base in Bangladesh, the outlawed guerrillas continue to carry out violent attacks in northeastern India. [...]
Agartala, Dec 1 (IANS) The Tripura government has asked the central intelligence agencies to confirm media reports from Dhaka about the arrest of a wanted northeast India terrorist leader in Bangladesh, police said here Tuesday.
‘We have asked the RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) and IB (Intelligence Bureau) to verify the media reports about the detention [...]
Agartala, Nov 30 (ANI): The Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF), an orgaisation of the Bru tribal refugees, has demanded immediate intervention of the Central Government to resolve the problem of the displaced Bru people.
The Bru refugees leaders have sought Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s intervention to solve the 12-year-old ethnic crisis in Mizoram, bordering [...]
Imphal, Nov 25 (ANI): At least five paramilitary troopers, including an army major and a captain of the 43 Assam Rifles were reportedly killed in an ambush near Somtal village in Chandel district of Manipur.
The ambush was believed to have been laid by the cadres of the outlawed United National Liberation Front (UNLF).
According to [...]
Pusparampara (Tripura), Nov 24(ANI): Members of the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) recently raided Pusparampara village in North Tripura district and kidnapped eight tribals, including four women, at gunpoint and shot them in a nearby jungle. [...]
Imphal, Nov 23 (IANS) Five paramilitary troopers, including a major and a captain, were killed in an ambush by separatists Monday in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, officials said.
A defence spokesperson said heavily armed militants of the outlawed United National Liberation Front (UNLF) attacked a convoy of the paramilitary Assam Rifles near Samtol village in [...]
Agartala, Nov 18 (IANS) A Tripura State Rifles (TSR) trooper was killed and another shot at and injured during a gunfight with separatists from the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) Wednesday, police here said.
‘During a counter-insurgency operation, the outlawed NLFT militants started firing at the security forces, who immediately retaliated. In the ensuing gunbattle, [...]
Agartala, Nov 11 (IANS) Life was paralysed in parts of northern Tripura Wednesday following a strike called by political parties to protest a terror attack on the families of surrendered militants that claimed eight lives.
The attack came even as peace had begun to prevail in the state. Police say the attackers may have come from [...]
Agartala, Nov 10 (IANS) In the first major terror attack in Tripura this year, at least eight tribal villagers – among them four women – were killed and another woman was injured by insurgents, police said Tuesday.
Two more villagers were still missing following the midnight militant attack.
‘Heavily armed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants [...]
Tripura, Nov 10 (ANI): In retaliation to the surrender of seven of their underground members, banned militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) gunned down eight of their relatives at Pusparampara in North Tripura district here today.
Militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) raided the village, about 70 km from [...]
Agartala, Nov 10 (IANS) At least eight tribal villagers including four women were killed and another injured by separatists in Tripura, police said Tuesday.
Police spokesperson Nepal Das said: ‘Heavily armed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants attacked Pushparampara village in northern Tripura Monday midnight and abducted eight villagers before gunning them down in a [...]
Agartala, Nov 9 (IANS) Six tribal separatists from the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have surrendered to security forces after fleeing their camps in Bangladesh, police said here Monday.
‘The Bangladesh-trained militants led by their self-styled captain Bhidhanjoy Reang, 28, surrendered before senior officers of the Tripura State Rifles (TSR) and Assam Rifles late [...]
Aizawl, Nov 3 (IANS) Officials of the Mizoram government and union home ministry will meet tribal leaders here Wednesday to resolve the longstanding deadlock on the repatriation of 35,000 Reang refugees from Tripura to Mizoram.
The tripartite meeting will see representatives try and hammer out a solution to the repatriation issue that has been hanging fire [...]
Agartala, Oct 16 (IANS) Six more tribal separatists have surrendered to security forces in Tripura after fleeing from their bases in Bangladesh, officials said here Friday.
‘The Bangladesh-trained militants led by their self-styled captain Makhanrai Reang, surrendered before senior officers of the Border Security Force (BSF) and Assam Rifles late Thursday,’ a senior police official said.
The [...]
RK Nagar (Tripura West district), Oct 16 (ANI): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has claimed that insurgent groups operating in the northeastern Indian states have camps in Bangladesh.
“The main camps of insurgent forces of northeast India is in Bangladesh. Earlier, they had their camps [...]
Agartala, Oct 2 (IANS) Militants from the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) are demanding a ransom of Rs.56,000 for three tribals they had abducted two days ago, police said here Friday.
The separatist guerrillas had Wednesday kidnapped six people from Raishabari village in Dhalai district, 180 km from here, but subsequently released three of [...]
Agartala, Sep.21 (ANI): With the security situation improving and insurgency showing signs of abating, the Tripura Government has scrapped the convoy escort system along the 70 kilometre stretch of the Assam-Agartala National Highway 44.
Since 1993, vehicles have not been [...]
Agartala, Sep.21 (ANI): With the security situation improving and insurgency showing signs of abating, the Tripura Government has scrapped the convoy escort system along the 70 kilometre stretch of the Assam-Agartala National Highway 44.
Since 1993, vehicles have not been [...]
Bagdogra (West Bengal), Sept 16 (ANI): Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh has said that his support to the creation of a separate Gorkhaland state remains unchanged despite his ouster from the party.
Speaking to reporters at the airport, he said that not only he, even his former party BJP is committed to [...]
Guwahati, Sep 16 (IANS) Separatist leaders from various groups Wednesday warned that cadres in ceasefire mode in Assam were getting restive and threatening to go underground again as New Delhi was taking no steps to further the peace process after entering into a truce.
At least eight influential rebel groups in Assam are operating ceasefires with [...]
