Arabinda Rajkhowa, chairman of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), and its publicity secretary Apurba Baruah have been arrested in Bangladesh, informed sources said on Wednesday. The two leaders are believed to have been arrested by the Special Branch of the Bangladesh Police from downtown Dhaka. Rajkhowa, 56, was in Bangladesh .. more »

GUWAHATI: Arabinda Rajkhowa, chairman of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), and its publicity secretary Apurba Baruah have been arrested in Bangladesh, informed sources said Wednesday. The two leaders are believed to have been arrested by the Special Branch of the Bangladesh Police from downtown Dhaka. Rajkhowa, 56, was in .. more »

The big arrest comes after Bangladesh decided to crackdown on Indian insurgent groups operating on its soil. ULFA is under tremendous pressure as its leadership is split, as key leaders are in prison. Recently, two top ULFA leaders surrendered to the Indian security forces. Two other ULFA leaders, Chitrabon Hazarika and Sasha Chowdhury, were .. more »

The two leaders are believed to have been arrested by the Special Branch of the Bangladesh Police from downtown Dhaka. Rajkhowa, 56, was in Bangladesh for close to two decades, operating out of bases in that country to order hit-and-run strikes in Assam. He founded the ULFA in 1979 along with five other leaders, including the outfit's .. more »

Guwahati/New Delhi: The chairman of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), Arabinda Rajkhowa has been detained in Bangladesh and efforts were on to get him deported to India, intelligence sources said on Wednesday. Rajkhowa, 53, was picked up in Dhaka on Monday and was likely to be handed over to the Indian authorities along the .. more »

The arrest, which is said to have been carried out last week, comes after Bangladesh decided to crackdown on Indian insurgent groups operating on its soil. Rajkhowa, whose real name is Rajib Rajkonwar, was among top four leaders who founded the separatist outfit way back in April 7, 1979. Earlier on November 5, two other ULFA leaders Chitrabon .. more »

New Delhi, Dec.2 (ANI) India on Wednesday hailed the U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to increase troops in Afghanistan. Addressing reporters on the sidelines of an event in the national capital, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said that continued military pressure on insurgents is an important security component .. more »

"I make this decision because I am convinced that our security is at stake in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is the epicenter of the violent extremism practiced by al-Qaida. It is from here that we were attacked on 9/11 and it is from here that new attacks are being plotted as I speak," the President said last night in a speech at the US .. more »

WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) US President Barack Obama plans to talk to Chinese President Hu Jintao and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, among other leaders, as he prepares to unveil his new strategy for Afghanistan, the White House said today. Obama briefed Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in an Oval Office meeting and was on the phone with .. more »

"There are those who suggest that Afghanistan is another Vietnam. They argue that it cannot be stabilized, and we are better off cutting our losses and rapidly withdrawing. Yet this argument depends upon a false reading of history," Obama said while announcing his new Af-Pak policy at the West Point Military Academy in New York. .. more »

"The president has developed a credible strategy designed to achieve success... The president's strategy is entirely consistent with the approach that Australia is taking in Afghanistan," Rudd said in a statement. Rudd was quoted in the media as saying that Australia remained committed to its role in the war-torn nation. "We are .. more »

Kabul has long called for the deployment of more than the 112,000 NATO and US troops currently in Afghanistan to crush a Taliban insurgency at its deadliest and most widespread since US-led troops ousted their regime in 2001. President Hamid Karzai has made taking responsibility for the country's security quagmire a major objective of his .. more »

Kabul: The Afghan government today welcomed US president Barack Obama's new strategy ordering an extra 30,000 troops into the war-torn country in a bid to forge a quick end to the war, a spokesman said. Kabul has long called for the deployment of more than the 112,000 NATO and US troops currently in Afghanistan to crush a Taliban insurgency at .. more »

New York, Dec.2 (ANI): Former US President George W. Bush can no longer be held responsible for the bloody war in Afghanistan, for his successor-President Obama has decided to take that burden into his shoulders, an analysis appearing in CBS says. According to the analysis, Obama might just have committed what could be the biggest political blunder .. more »

Washington, Dec.2 (ANI):Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalizad has said that by announcing the deployment of an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama has probably indulged in the time-old practice of giving with one hand and taking with the other. "If you put in a timeline you encourage the enemy to .. more »