NDFB(S) ultra killed in encounter in Assam
Guwahati: An NDFB(Songbijit) militant was killed in an encounter with police in lower Assam’s Udalguri district on Tuesday. The insurgent was killed in an exchange of fire with a joint police team from Udalguri and neighbouring Sonitpur district at Khubumguri village, IGP (police) L R Bishnoi told PTI. A pistol and one high explosive grenade were recovered from the slain ultra, he said adding the man was involved in the March two ambush in Udalguri in which four Assam Rifles personnel were injured. (PTI)
BJP demands EC probe into voting ‘manipulation’ in Arunachal
Itanagar: BJP has demanded the Election Commission to probe the alleged “manipulation” in voting through postal ballots during the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls held simultaneously in Arunachal Pradesh on April 9. The “gross manipulation” had denied a large number of state government employees engaged in poll duty of their constitutional right, BJP spokesman Techi Necha said in a statement. While pointing out that many employees on election duty could not exercise their franchise due to non-issue of postal ballots, the party sought to know the reason behind such a “major lapse”. It alleged that the election process was “suppressed” by the Congress government in the state with the help of officials who acted as agents of the party. “We have raised many issues of corrupt practices and violation of Model Code of Conduct by the ruling Congress before the Commission through the state’s chief electoral officer (CEO), but hardly a few were attended,” he said. (PTI)
Tribal woman raped in Tripura
Udaipur: A tribal woman was raped allegedly by a BSF man at Noyabari village in Tripura’s Gomati district, police said on Tuesday. The woman was returning home after dropping her child in school on April 22 when the BSF man, Jatandra Tripura, allegedly raped her, said SP S Sambandham. She informed her husband, an Assam Rifles jawan posted in Manipur, who returned home yesterday. An FIR was filed subsequently, he said adding the accused was absconding. (PTI)
Union RD Ministry organising Seminar on MNREGA in Nagaland
Kohima: A Convergence Seminar and Training on MGNREGA, organised by the Ministry of Rural Development (RD), Government of India will be held from May 7 to 10, next at the Conference Hall of the Directorate of Rural Development in Kohima. According to a press release issued by Metsubo Jamir, Convener and Director of Nagaland Rural Development today stated that it is compulsory for all Project Directors, Block Development Officers and Programme Officers of the Department of Rural Development to attend the seminar & training. The release also informed the Head of Departments of the Agriculture, Irrigation & Flood Control, Roads & Bridges, Education, Forest, Land Resources, Horticulture, Cooperation, Sericulture, Soil & Water Conservation, PHED, Food & Civil Supplies, SIRD, Labour and National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) Departments, along with their Convergence Officer in-charge to ensure attendance at the seminar and training, the release said. (UNI)