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Font size: Agencies Agartala, November 21 (Agencies): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram met Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in New Delhi Saturday and discussed ways to resolve the 12-year-old deadlock on the repatriation of 35,000 Reang refugees to Mizoram following the recent ethnic violence in the northeastern state, officials said. “Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram held an urgent meeting with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and talked about the possible steps to be taken to solve the stalemate over the repatriation of tribal refugees from Tripura to Mizoram,” a senior official told newspersons in Agartala.  The official said: “During the meeting, the Tripura chief ... Read Full Story

Font size: PTI Guwahati, November 21 (PTI): At least nine top ULFA militants have sneaked into Assam for conducting subversive activities targetting oil refineries and other vital installations on November 27 which the ultras observe as 'Black Day'. A posting in the Assam police website said the nine ultras recently sneaked into the state from Myanmar, Bhutan and Nagaland to carry out blasts in protest against the first army operation against the outfit on that date in 1991. Their main targets were oil refineries and other vital installations, it said. The nine ULFA militants are Bosa Singh, Pinku Phukan, Upen Borgohain, Bimal Kalita, Sadin ... Read Full Story

More than 30,000 refugees from ethnic clashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo have crossed the border into the Republic of Congo, aid agencies said on Friday. "Today, the figure is 30,600" refugees, said Rufin Mafouta, head of the office of Medecins d'Afrique (MDA - Doctors of Africa) carrying out relief work in cooperation with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). "There's been a massive influx in the past few days because the fighting has become far more intense" in the DR Congo's Equateur province, where two tribes are fighting for control of a lake rich in fish, Mafouta said. Last week, the ... Read Full Story

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram met Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in New Delhi Saturday and discussed ways to resolve the 12-year-old deadlock on the repatriation of 35,000 Reang refugees to Mizoram following the recent ethnic violence in the northeastern state, officials said. Read Full Story

Suspected separatists blew up a fuel-laden train in India's restive northeast, causing a giant inferno that took 12 hours to control, police said Tuesday. A police spokesperson said the train of 48 wagons travelling from the Numaligarh Refinery caught fire late Monday in the state of Assam about 270 kilometres (167 miles) from state capital Guwahati. "It was initially thought the fire broke out after the train jumped rails. But now we believe it was due to a powerful explosion on the rail track as we managed to recover wires and other materials used in triggering blasts from the site," a senior Assam police ... Read Full Story