Landmines killed 40 in Manipur since ’01

SOBHAPATI SAMOM from The Assam Tribune
IMPHAL, May 6 – A three day convention of people affected by the ongoing slow- intensity conflict and narcotic drugs has urged both the State and non-State forces to immediately cease the trend of exploding bombs and placing landmines in inhabited areas.
According to Ginkholal Touthang, Secretary of the Association [...]

Substantial rise in infiltration: Army chief

From The Daily Excelsior
NEW DELHI, Apr 28:Infiltration of terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir, helped by Pakistani establishment, has risen substantially, with March recording the highest influx as compared to the corresponding month in the last seven years.
Army chief Gen Deepak Kapoor today said there was information about more militants preparing to infiltrate into India and [...]

Not a joke

From the editor desk, The Assam Tribune
A beleaguered LTTE has declared a unilateral truce in a bid to stem the advance of the Sri Lankan army, the last bastion of Velupillai Prabhakaran’s loyalists now being confined to just 5 sq km strip of land in the Wanni region. It is unfortunate that Sri Lanka has [...]

Maoist rebels hijack train in Jharkhand

From Deccanherald.com
Maoist rebels on Wednesday morning hijacked a train carrying over 300 passengers at the Heyagarha station in Jharkhands Latehar district, about 135 km from here. The train, bound for Mughalsarai (in Uttar Pradesh) from Barkakhana (in Jharkhand), was released about four hours later. Latehar Deputy Commissioner Sarvendu Thathagat said the train was taken over [...]

Lanka rejects LTTE’s ceasefire offer

By Chandani Kirinde from the Tribune
An offer of an immediate unilateral ceasefire in the north by the beleaguered Tamil Tigers on Sunday was rejected by the Sri Lankan Government. The Media Centre for National Security in Colombo called the ceasefire announcement a gimmick. The LTTE announcement came as the UN under Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs [...]

Maoist strike in Jharkhand, Bihar, WB, seize train

From Daily excelsior.com
LATEHAR/PATNA/KOLKATA, April 22: Striking on the second phase poll eve, Maoists today seized a train carrying nearly 700 passengers in Jharkhand’s Latehar district for over four hours and bombed a BDO’s office and shot a driver after setting ablaze trucks in Bihar.
Suspected naxalites also killed three CPI-M workers in West Bengal.
The Maoists took [...]

A concerned India sending two emissaries to Sri Lanka

From Sindhtoday.net
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) With the killings of Tamil civilians continuing in Sri Lanka, India Thursday underlined the need for “an immediate cessation of all hostilities” and announced that it will send two special emissaries to Colombo.
“We are very unhappy at the continued killing in Sri Lanka. All killing must stop. There must [...]

Top LTTE leaders ‘Daya Master’, George surrender

From Meritimes.com
IN A major setback to the Tamil Tigers, two top LTTE leaders are reported to have surrendered to the Sri Lankan forces after all escape routes seem to have been plugged for the terrorists, on Wednesday afternoon (April 22).
‘Daya Master’, who reportedly belongs to Prabhakaran’s inner circle and George, gave themselves up to the [...]

Blast kills 1 in Assam, Pranab has close shave

From the Asian age
March 31: A powerful bomb blast at an election rally site in Guwahati, where external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee was due to speak, killed one person and injured 15 others on Tuesday evening. The police suspects that Ulfa was responsible.
The improvised explosive device, fitted in a TVS motorcycle (AS 14-7924), went off [...]

Terror threat to India still high

From Deccanchronicle.com
Like in the case of most large countries, gauging India’s threat perception is a complex matrix involving military, political, economic and intelligence variables. But there are specific compulsions as well that need to be taken into account. The most pertinent of these in the Indian case is this country’s unstable neighbourhood — with Pakistan [...]