ULFAI makes Facebook entry as political party

GUWAHATI: Amid a crackdown by police following lynching of two youths last week in Karbi Anglong, the banned United Liberation Front of Asom-independent (ULFA-I) made its Facebook debut on Friday. In the page named as ULFA Swadhin (Independent), the banned outfit claims to be a political party. The page contains a video of ULFA-I cadres dressed in olive green and carrying automatic assault rifles. There’s a photo of a briefing by self-styled Major Arunudoy Asom, one of the wanted cadres of the outfit responsible for attacks on security forces. It is yet to be confirmed whether the page has indeed been opened by ULFA-I.

the Pune police probing the January 1 Bhima Koregaon violence, had arrested five people, including Sen, for allegedly having Maoist links. Vice-chancellor of the university, Dr S P Kane said: “Sen was suspended based on information from Pune police that she has been detained under various sections of the IPC.” SRINAGAR: Thousands of friends and admirers on Friday joined the funeral procession of veteran journalist Shujaat Bukhari, who was laid to rest in his ancestral village in Kreeri a day after he was shot dead outside his office in Srinagar.

The 50-year-old journalist and two of his personal security officers were killed on Thursday evening in a drive-by shooting by suspected terrorists that sparked outrage in the troubled Valley and condemnation by political leaders across the party divide.

The body of the senior journalist, who championed peace in the Valley torn by almost three decades of separatist violence, was taken at 11am to the funeral ground where journalists, politicians, social activists and local villagers were among the thousands in attendance.

The procession traversed the one-kilometre distance from his ancestral home in Kreeri, 37 kilometres from Srinagar in Baramulla, to the graveyard where his body was laid to rest as young men chanted religious slogans.

Senior ministers in the state government Abdul Rehman Veeri, Altaf Bukhari and Naem Akthar, several legislators, and leaders of mainstream political parties attended the funeral. National Conference vice president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah also participated.

“It’s a very sad incident. The