One more IED found in Assam
Dhubri: A powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was recovered and an explosive-supplier arrested along the Assam-north Bengal border in Boxirhat on Thursday, police said.
On a tip off, an army intelligence group raided the residence of Ali Asgar Sheikh in Boxirhat along the border in Dhubri district, where from an IED was recovered, they said. Sheikh, who was arrested, is believed to be an expert in making IEDs and supplying explosives, arms and ammunition to ULFA and other extremists groups in the area, they said.
He has been handed over by the army to the police in Bongaigaon for interrogation. On Wednesday a major tragedy was averted when two powerful IEDs were recovered and later defused from a bus in Dhubri. This was planned for explosion in the capital Guwahati city in the run-up to the Independence day celebrations, they said. (PTI)
Two arrested, rifles seized
Aizawl: The Mizoram police and the 14th battalion Assam Rifles officials arrested two persons for possessing AK-56 assault rifles in the Mizoram-Myanmar bordering Champhai town, police said here today. The three rifles and three magazines were seized from the residence of Thangkhanmung and the two accused were arrested and booked under relevant sections of the IPC and the Arms Act.
The accused Khaikhalian and Suiliam were reportedly residents of Khawmawi hamlet of Myanmar, police said. (PTI)
20 injured in bus mishap
Rangiya: Alteast twenty bus passengers were injured, four of them seriously, when the vehicle in which they were travelling collided head on with a truck in lower Assam’s Kamrup (rural) district on Thursday.
Official sources said the passenger bus travelling from Goalpara to Guwahati had a head on collision with the truck on national highway 47 at Kenduguri at 12 pm.
All the twenty passengers in the bus were injured and admitted to the Boko civil hospital. The four seriously hurt ones are being shifted to the Gauhati Medical College hospital. (PTI)
Seminar on NE trade potentials
Guwahati: A day-long seminar will be held here on Fridayto discuss the trade potential of the North Eastern states.
The Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics (DGCIS), in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Kolkata, has organised the seminar on ‘Trade Performance & Potential of North Eastern States and the role of DGCIS’.
The seminar will have presentation of the export performance of North Eastern States, border trade and its potential, multilateral trading arrangement and its relevance in today’s context followed by an interactive session, panel discussion with the stakeholders, a release informed here on Thursday. It will also focus on the policy initiatives that may be necessary to adopt for enhancement of the export potential of the NE states. (PTI)