Meghalaya Police’s most wanted GNLA Commander-in-Chief Sohan D Shira has been killed in an encounter in an operation by the state police team today morning in Dobu Agalgre of East Garo Hills. Meghalaya Police input confirmed Shohan’s death and stated that Shohan’s death is the end of militancy in Meghalaya. Slain Shohan got shot in […]
Director General of Police of Meghalaya, Dr S B Singh (IPS) has denied any probability of negotiation with militant outfits of the state, and said that the counter-insurgency operation will be continued. Dr Singh also said that militant outfit GNLA is cornered by counter-insurgency operation and the outfit is now little away from their end of […]
![Indian Diplomacy Failed! – ULFA[I] reopens camp in Bangladesh](https://www.timesofassam.com/wp-content/themes/theme/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofassam.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F04%2Fnotun-jugor-hopun-huirjyudoyor-dhwoni.jpg&q=90&w=795&h=470&zc=1 "Indian Diplomacy Failed! – ULFA[I] reopens camp in Bangladesh")
Much was talked and hyped about the muscle power of recent Indian diplomacy on its neighbors such as Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan in terms of controlling militancy in India’s troubled north east. Sheikh Hasina led Bangladesh particularly had handed over key leaders of militant outfits such as ULFA, UNLF and NDFB during the reign of […]
![Deputy CS of ULFA[I] Drishti Rajkhowa had to step back from Surrender](https://www.timesofassam.com/wp-content/themes/theme/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofassam.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F06%2FDristi-Rajkhowa-alias-Manoj-Rabha.jpg&q=90&w=795&h=470&zc=1 "Deputy CS of ULFA[I] Drishti Rajkhowa had to step back from Surrender")
Times of Assam had previously reported from reliable sources that Deputy Chief-of-the-Staff of Military Wing & Commander of Western Command of ULFA[I] Colonel Drishti Rajkhowa Alias Drishti Asom alias Manoj Rabha was all set to be coming over ground, primarily because of ideological conflicts between him and Paresh Baruah alias Paresh Asom over several matters. […]
Former Meghalaya Chief Minister, MP, Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma died of a heart attack at his Delhi residence on Friday, 04, 2015. He was 68 years old at the time of death. Purno Agitok Sangma – known as P A Sangma – was born on September 01, 1947. He was a graduate of […]
While watching television, you must have come across the Incredible India campaign for the North-Eastern states. In those few seconds dedicated to one of the most neglected regions of the nation, you must have seen happy tea planters plucking the best of the tea leaves in the tea gardens of Assam, the region’s sheer beauty […]
There is uproar again in the nation. Protests are being carried out, police is asked to speed up their investigations and the common plea ‘We want Justice’ is resonating in the capital and, also, in other parts of the nation. This time it is not any anti-corruption movement or the new political drama for the […]
By- Hiranya Saikia Assam became a part of British Indian Empire in 1826 by the treaty of Yandaboo. Since 1874, colonial Assam grew with an area of 2, 55,000 sq km, comprising the Northeast except the princely states of Manipur and Tripura. Assam was governed under a Chief Commissioner with its capital located at Shillong. […]
The Indian Constitution which came into force on 26th January 1950 guaranteed the Right to Life and the Equality before Law to the people of India along with social, economic and political justice, freedom of thought and expression on which Indian democracy thrives. These pillars of democracy on which India claims to be the largest […]
By- Bibhu Prasad Routray On November 25, at least two press releases reached the media houses in the Northeast. The first one from the anti-talk Paresh Baruah faction of the ULFA criticised the divisive policies of New Delhi of creating autonomous councils in Assam under the Sixth schedule of the Constitution. The second one from […]