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Agencies Agartala, Jan 6 - A two-day business summit on north-east India will begin in Kolkata Friday to attract investment to the region, Tripura Industry and Commerce Minister Jitendra Choudhury said here Wednesday. The ministry of development of north-eastern region (DoNER) and the Indian Chamber of Commerce are jointly organising the summit, where investors from Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia are expected to participate. 'Investors and businessmen from different parts of India and abroad want to harness the region's untapped resources,' Choudhury told reporters. Related posts: India-Myanmar gas pipeline in few years Krishna heads to Myanmar for BIMSTEC meet Thursday Northeast ... Read Full Story

The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) Wednesday threatened to attack security forces and vital installations in Assam ahead of India's Republic Day. "We are going to step up our offensive and target security forces and other vital installations," self-styled ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah said in an e-mailed statement. Titled 'new guidelines and instructions', the rebel statement also warned of action against Assam Police personnel and informers. "We are not going to spare those who act as informers to pass on inputs to the security forces," the ULFA leader said. The rebel statement also threatened action against "intellectuals" who are anti-ULFA. "We shall ... Read Full Story

Agencies Guwahati, Jan 6 - The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) Wednesday threatened to attack security forces and vital installations in Assam ahead of India's Republic Day. 'We are going to step up our offensive and target security forces and other vital installations,' self-styled ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah said in an e-mailed statement. Titled 'new guidelines and instructions', the rebel statement also warned of action against Assam Police personnel and informers. Related posts: Security forces vacate Lalgarh school building Security alert in Assam fearing ULFA backlash Talks collapse, Rajkhowa, other ULFA leaders arrested Read Full Story

Youssuf Abdullahi Mohammud was just 16 when he arrived in Nepal in 2007, the victim of a people trafficker who had promised to take him to Europe from his native Somalia. Mohammud, the eldest of five children whose father was killed by Somali militia, had paid the trafficker 4,000 dollars to take him to England, where he hoped to earn money to send home to his family. Instead he was taken to one of the world's poorest countries, itself still reeling from a bloody 10-year civil war, where he has remained ever since along with dozens of other Somalis who came to Nepal in ... Read Full Story

Bangladesh's plans to repatriate 9,000 Myanmar Muslim refugees to their homeland hit trouble on Wednesday when a leader of the minority said they would refuse to leave. Bangladesh's top foreign ministry official, Mirajul Quayes, said Tuesday that neighbouring Myanmar had agreed to take back 9,000 Rohingya refugees in what was seen as a breakthrough in a decade-long problem. Quayes, the foreign secretary, said during talks with Myanmar deputy foreign minister Maung Myint in Dhaka that the military regime had agreed to accept nearly one-third of the officially recognised refugees now in Bangladesh. Jalal Uddin, who is the secretary of the UN-recognised Kutupalong camp, said ... Read Full Story