BSF picks up ISI moles from border
The BSF on Friday picked up six suspected ISI moles from Kinnarkhal village on the Indo-Bangladesh border in Cachar district. The six hail from Pulandsahar district of Uttar Pradesh.
Highly-placed official sources said the persons, who were handed over to police this afternoon, were detained for further interrogation on Saturday by a joint intelligence team to be drawn from the sleuths of Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB), special branch of the police, RAW and army. The detained have been identified as Promode Kumar, Mohmmad Zamil, Abbas Ali, Basil Ali, Kasid Ali and Sakhil Ahmed.
ONGC has proposed to invest around Rs 3,300 crore in Assam for revival and revamping its assets in the state. This was conveyed to chief minister Tarun Gogoi by a delegation of the oil giant led by its director (onshore) Ajit Kumar Hazarika. The delegation called on Gogoi on Friday evening at his office. The ONGC delegation also expressed concern over the security of its assets and sought state government’s help in their protection. A battalion of the 2nd Indian Reserve Force from Mizoram will soon replace the 9th battalion of the Naga Armed Police in the trouble-torn state of Chhattisgarh to counter the People’s War Group of Maoist Communist Centre. The Centre had asked the Mizoram government recently to send the battalion. The battalion is currently undergoing training at Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairengte. Police arrested two NSCN(I-M) cadres at Khuzama checkgate in Kohima district and seized two M-20 pistols from them on Thursday. The cadres were arrested during routine frisking, the police said. Militants ambushed a patrol party of the BSF in Churachandpur district in Manipur at 7 pm on Thursday night, killing one jawan and injuring another. The jawan, who was killed on the spot, was identified as head constable Seityabal, 38, of Haryana while the injured jawan was identified as Oinam Ribanta of the same district. The army arrested one corporal of the 28 battalion of the Ulfa recently from Tribal Colony at Tezu in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. A book of quotable quotes by prominent personalities of the world, translated into the Mizo language by C.H. Thangkhuma, was released on Thursday at Zonet Studio in Aizawl. The Media and Communication Study Centre of Entrepreneurship Development Cell, Cotton College, will release Amar Mot (lab journal) on Saturday on the college premises. The Press Information Campaign on Bharat Nirman Programme organised by the Press Information Bureau which was supposed to be held at Ganesh Mandir Udyan in Guwahati from August 8-12 has now been shifted to Harendra Nath Talukdar Memorial Auditorium at Uparhali in Mirza, about 35 km away from Guwahati. Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya, Guwahati, has planned a massive drive on school eye screening in a few districts of Assam. As many as 358 teachers from 179 schools of six selected blocks of Nagaon and Dibrugarh districts will be trained to screen over 45,000 schoolchildren.  |
To Hiren Chandra Kalita, writer and social activist of Guwahati, for being selected for Baba Saheb Ambedkar Fellowship Award, 2006, by Bharatiya Dalit Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, for his social and literary contributions
