Live
- BJP releases ‘charge sheet’ against BJD govt
- District Nodal Officer Venkataramana announced the intermediate results
- She team that stopped child marriages
- Medical devices sector needs separate rules, says industry body AiMeD
- Andhra Paper declares lockout
- Opposition INDIA bloc working on 'one year, one PM' formula: PM Modi
- Delhi HC quashes FIR for outraging woman's modesty, orders man to assist Traffic Police for a month as settlement
- 'Apologise to families of farmers who committed suicide in Vidarbha', Amit Shah dares Sharad Pawar
- SC Collegium recommends appointment of a permanent judge in Chhattisgarh HC, extension of term of two judges
- U20 Men's football nationals: Telangana, Sikkim earn full points with easy win
Assam: Two NDFB(S) militants killed, abducted trader rescued
Two hardcore militants of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Sangbijit) were killed in gun battle with security forces in Assam\'s Chirang district along Bhutan border on Sunday, police said.
Guwahati: Two hardcore militants of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Sangbijit) were killed in gun battle with security forces in Assam's Chirang district along Bhutan border on Sunday, police said.
Security forces rescued an abducted trader in cluster from the militant.
Following a tip-off, a joint team of army and police had launched operation at Chirang reserve forest area along the Bhutan border where a militant group was hiding.
"When the troops reached the remote area the militants started firing and bullets were exchanged in which two militants killed, " Assam police IGP Dr LR Bisnoi said.
Security forces rescued an abducted trader Sushil Deb during the operation.
The slain militants have yet to be identified.
Security forces had recovered one M-16 rifle, one AK series rifle, one insas rifle, two pistols, several rounds live ammunition in possession from the slain militants.
Assam police on Saturday said that, a combing operation will be launched by the specially trained commandos of army, CRPF, BSF, SSB and Assam police against the NDFB militants in bordering areas of Bhutan.
By: Hemanta Kumar Nath
