Six held for former insurgent leader's killing IMPHAL, JUNE 30 (IANS): Manipur Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of six persons on charge of involvement in the killing of Ningombam Nabachandra, a former People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) chairman and his driver. Nabachandra and his driver Leishangthem Sanjit were killed on April 21 night within the camp of 7 Manipur Rifles at Khabeishoi in Imphal East district. Red army, the military wing of PREPAK, an outlawed underground organisation, had claimed responsibility for the crime. Manipur's Director General of Police L. M. Khoute said said: "A person staying within the complex was picked up and he spilled the beans on the crime, leading to the arrest of five more persons." Khoute said the accused belong to Kangleipak Communist Party (Malem Nganba group). Another rhino killed in Assam Guwahati, June 30 (IANS): A one-horned female rhino has been killed in the Orang National Park in Assam. The suspected poachers took away its horn, forest officials said on Thursday. "The carcass of a female rhino was recovered on Thursday and the horn was missing," a forest official said. The poachers seem to have killed the rhino on June 27. The forest guards reportedly heard gunshots in the park that day. But a search operation revealed nothing then. This is the 10th one-horned rhino to be killed in Assam since January and the third after a BJP-led government took charge in the state. The poachers killed two rhinos at the Kaziranga National Park earlier this month. One rhino was killed when Forest Minister Pramila Rani Brahma was camping in the park. Although Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had personally taken up the matter, the poachers appear to be operating with impunity. Sonowal orders repair of all roads in Barak Valley GUWAHATI, June 30 (AGENCIES): Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today ordered repairing all roads of Barak Valley within next three months. “Sonowal directed the Public Works Department to fix its line of action and repair all roads of Barak Valley within three months,” an official release said. Sonowal was on a day-long visit to Barak Valley to discuss a range of issues with the DCs and SPs of Cachar, Karimganj, Hailakandi, Dima Hasao, Karbi Anglong and Hamren in Silchar. He also asked the National Highway Authority of India to complete the work of ‘mahasadak’ on priority.
