Agartala | 33 minutes ago
Another ISI agent held in Tripura
Agartala, Sep 3 - An agent of Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence - has been arrested by the Border Security Force - along the India-Bangladesh border in west Tripura, police said here Friday.BSF troopers detained ISI agent Nayeem Ahmed Mamoon, 22, from Lankamura border on the outskirts of Agartala Thursday night while he was crossing the border towards Bangladesh, a police spokesman ... read more

Guwahati | 19 hours ago
Company executive kidnapped in Assam
Guwahati, Sep 2 - An executive of a cement company was kidnapped at gunpoint from near Assam's main city of Guwahati Thursday, a day after two businessman abducted over the weekend were rescued by police.A police spokesperson said Narendra Nimodia, the director of Star Cement, a local brand in Assam, was kidnapped by at least four unidentified gunmen from Jorabat on the outskirts of Guwahati aroun ... read more

Guwahati | 1 day ago
Gogoi fit, to reach Guwahati Wednesday
Guwahati, Sep 2 - Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has been declared fit, nearly a month after he underwent three critical heart surgeries in Mumbai's Asian Heart Institute. He is expected to be discharged Friday and arrive here Sep 8.An Assam government spokesperson Thursday said Gogoi would stay in Mumbai until Sunday. 'From Mumbai, the chief minister would travel to New Delhi Monday and is sche ... read more

Guwahati | 2 days ago
Two kidnapped Assam businessmen rescued after three days
Guwahati, Sep 1 - Two businessmen kidnapped at gunpoint over the weekend from Assam's main city Guwahati were rescued by security forces early Wednesday, officials said.A police spokesperson said Bishnu Kedia and Sanjay Agarwal, both abducted Sunday, were rescued from Sonapur on the outskirts of Guwahati. 'Due to intense security operations, the kidnappers probably felt the heat and abandoned the ... read more

2 days ago
Four Israelis killed in West Bank attack
Gaza, Sep 1 - Two days before the resumption of direct peace talks between Israel and Palestine in Washington, four Israelis were killed in an attack near the West Bank town of Hebron Tuesday and the armed wing of the Islamic Hamas movement claimed responsibility for the shooting.Four Israelis, including two women, one of them pregnant, were killed Tuesday night when gunmen opened fire at their ca ... read more

New Delhi | 2 days ago
Maharashtra spares cop for Gujarat riots probe
New Delhi, Aug 31 - The Supreme Court was told by the Maharashtra government Tuesday that it was making its senior Indian Police Service - officer K. Venkateshan available to the Special Investigating Team - probing the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases.The court was told that the state government has already written to the union home ministry about it. An apex court bench of Justice D.K. Jain, Justice ... read more

Kolkata | 2 days ago
Birla Corp to sign pact for Assam cement plant
Kolkata, Aug 31 - The Birla Corporation Ltd plans to sign a pact with the Assam government in September to set up a one million tonne - cement plant in that state, Birla Corp chairman Harsh V. Lodha said here Tuesday.'Everything is in place, we are just waiting for the chief minister to recover fully and resume office,' Lodha told reporters on the sidelines of an interactive session organised by I ... read more

Guwahati | 3 days ago
Spectre of further price rise angers opposition in Assam
Guwahati, Aug 31 - An apex trade body in Assam has announced that prices of all essentials would shoot up by another 10 percent with immediate effect, triggering angry criticism of the ruling Congress by the opposition parties Tuesday.The Kamrup Chamber of Commerce - said the wholesale prices of all essentials were expected to go up by another 10 percent with transportation costs shooting manifold ... read more

Agartala | 3 days ago
Assam, Tripura police to jointly probe ISI activities
Agartala, Aug 31 - The police in Assam and Tripura are jointly probing the activities of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence - agency in northeast India following the arrest of a suspected ISI agent last month, officials said here Tuesday.'A five-member police team of Assam came here Monday to take ISI agent Manir Khan alias Omar Ashraf, 30, and his Indian associates to Guwahati for further int ... read more

Guwahati | 4 days ago
Two train drivers kidnapped in Assam
Guwahati, Aug 29 - Two train drivers were kidnapped by tribal separatists Sunday from a running goods train in Assam, officials said.A police spokesperson said heavily armed militants belonging to the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland - boarded and stopped the train at gunpoint and abducted the driver and his assistant near Gamani on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. The rebels man ... read more