Militants have 26 camps in Bangladesh: Sarkar

Thursday, December 28, 2006, 10:06 [IST]

Agartala, Dec 28: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar allegedly said that the militants of various banned outfits of the state have 26 camps inside Bangladesh.

While addressing a BSF official and jawans of 135 battalion at Silachari BOP, Mr Sarkar yesterday said the militants were hampering the development in the state. .

Mr Sarkar, in a hectic tour, went to remote parts of south Tripura bordering Chittagong hill tracts in Bangladesh.

He said, ''Militants were getting support of ISI. But after completion of 660 kms long fencing work, the overall situation will improvement in the Tripura.''

UNI

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K'taka: Bahubali's Mahamastakabhisheka on Feb 2

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Jammu, Dec 28: The Budget session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council will start on January 8, 2007 with the Governor's address, according to a Council notification. Discussion on motion of thanks to the Governor's address will be taken up on January 10, 12 and 15, it added. The annual financial and supplementary statements of expenditure for the year 2007-08 will presented on 17th followed by a general discussion on the Budget.....

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Cathedral; body to be flown to Michigan on Tuesday.

Thursday, December 28, 2006,10:06 [IST]

PALM DESERT, Calif., Dec 28 (Reuters) A week of public tributes to former President Gerald Ford will stretch from the California desert to the nation's capital and back to his boyhood home of Grand Rapids, Michigan, for burial, organizers said on Wednesday. A private funeral service for family and close friends of the 38th U S president is scheduled for Friday afternoon at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Palm Desert, California, which Ford and his.....

China Prez calls for powerful, combat-ready navy

Thursday, December 28, 2006,10:07 [IST]

Beijing, Dec 28: Chinese president and commander-in-chief Hu Jintao urged the building of a powerful navy that is prepared ''at any time'' for military struggle, state media reported today. At a meeting of delegates to a Communist Party meeting of the navy on Wednesday, Hu said China, whose military build-up has been a source of friction with the United States, was a major maritime country whose naval capability must be improved. ''We should.....

Mendes returning to Brazil stage for New Year's

Thursday, December 28, 2006,10:07 [IST]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Dec 28 (Reuters) After a 28-year absence from the Brazilian stage, bossa nova legend Sergio Mendes will play on Rio de Janeiro's famed Ipanema beach on New Year's Eve with hip-hop band Black Eyed Peas. Rio prides itself for hosting what it calls the world's two biggest parties -- its dazzling Carnival jamboree and the New Year's Eve bash. More than two million revelers cram the Copacabana and Ipanema beaches and the.....