The DCCI meeting was attended by 31 members of the council from different parts of the country including representatives from Assam, Manipur and Tripura depicting the immense growth of the sport in the North-East states of the country.
The Assam Police arrested a person involved in carrying explosives items and recovered a large quantity of explosives from the passenger bus in Assam's Goalpara district on Sunday.
The three assailants, who were arrested after shooting dead gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj, confessed to their crime on Sunday, adding that they did it to "become popular".
A day after gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead in Prayagraj in full media glare, the mother of one of the assailants, Lovelesh Tiwari, on Sunday said her son had a religious side to him.
The three assailants, who were arrested after shooting dead gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj, will be presented before the magistrate today.
After gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead in Prayagraj in full media glare on Saturday night, the father of one of the assailants on Sunday said his son was jobless and a drug addict.
"Based on confirmed input regarding the movement of active cadres of NSCN (IM) astride Mokokchung - Mariani Road, threatening local civilians were carrying out extortion activities, an operation was launched and Mobile Vehicle Check Post was established to apprehend these cadres," it added.
In a major breakthrough in the rhino poaching case at Bagori in Assam's Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve on March 26, Special Task Force (STF), Assam, and Nagaon Police recovered the rhino horn, which is suspected to have been poached during the incident.
The investigation led to the arrest of Baltej Singh, who is a nephew of Satwant Singh who along with a fellow bodyguard Beant Singh had assassinated former Indian PM Indira Gandhi in October 1984, according to sources.
Delhi's Rohini District court has discharged a gangster and four other accused in connection with an attempt to murder case, noting that the intention of the assailants was not fatal but to threaten the complainant.