Paresh Baruah

Time is ripe to lift AFSPA from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh

ULFA (Independent) neither possesses the firepower which characterised its ‘revolutionary’ innards at one point in time, nor does it have the support of the people of Assam

Strategic encirclement of India's North East: Time to get out of the straitjacket

North East India’s fortunes are inextricably intertwined with that of Myanmar

Whither dialogue with ULFA: Why government must be careful while holding talks with insurgent outfit

Dialogue with ULFA must be a comprehensive affair. Dialogue in the absence of Paresh Barua, who continues to maintain an anti-talk stance, is not going to be all-inclusive

Manipur ambush: How Dragon’s shadow over Northeast changes rules of engagement and turns insurgency more ominous

Belligerent insurgent groups are coming together in the Northeast to carry out anti-India operations with Chinese characters

ULFA in disarray after Myanmar Army's crackdown: Has endgame begun for the separatist outfit?

As such, ULFA would always be able to attract new cadres which has been evidenced from time to time in the past couple of decades. But the situation could be very different this time around with the odds stacked heavily against all the separatist outfits based in Myanmar

ULFA's second coming in Assam: Engineers, doctors swell ranks as militant outfit witnesses surge in recruits

Many youth (in one case, a class 9 girl) from across Assam may have left for the jungles where Paresh Baruah leads hundreds of his armed fighters, who operate from training camps.

Assam’s teenage female kickboxer abandons study, career dreams to join ULFA as militant group spreads its tentacles in state

The young recruit has been identified as Karishma Mech hailing from Phaneng village coming under the Lekhapani police station limits of Tinsukia district.

Perpetrators behind Assam's Tinsukia massacre yet to be nabbed amid reports of militants fleeing to Myanmar

A combined team of the police from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, army as well as the CoBRA team from the CRPF has been pressed into action in the Tengapani Reserve Forest a day after the massacre was orchestrated at Dholla.

Can't dub Masood Azhar global terrorist, says China after India seeks UN designation for LeT chief yet again

At a meet between Rajnath Singh and Chinese home minister Zhao Kezhi, India urged China to back its pending UN application to list Masood Azhar as an international terrorist.

Rajnath Singh discusses security with Chinese counterpart, asks Beijing to support plea in UN on Masood Azhar

After two rounds of meetings, restricted talks between Rajnath Singh and Zhao Kezhi followed by delegation-level parleys, the home ministry said in a statement that the two sides discussed issues of mutual interest.