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Representative image JORHAT: Police arrested three drug smugglers at Laharijan in Karbi Anglong district, along the Assam-Nagaland border, on Friday. The trio wuere carrying 658 grams of heroin. Bokajan sub-divisional police officer John Das said, "The arrested persons have been identified as KH Suresh Khan (35), Lourembam Shamu Singh (46) and Md Bishabauddin (32). They hail from Manipur's Bishnupur district." Das further stated, "Acting on a tip off, a naka (police checkpost) was set up at Laharijan. A bus was intercepted and on searching the vehicle 52 soap boxes containing 658 gm of heroi...

A CORRESPONDENT BOKAJAN: The Karbi Anglong police arrested a woman, the kingpin of an inter-State drug cartel based in Nagaland. Another person was also arrested, besides the seizure of 2.125 kg of fine quality heroin worth over Rs 7 crore. The police also seized a Maruti Alto car from their possession. DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta said, "The arrest and the seizure are the outcomes of a trap laid by the police. We're observing the activities of the drug cartel. When we came to know that the cartel was desperately in the search of customers, we sent out personnel with money incognito. And the...

A CORRESPONDENT BOKAJAN: In continuation with the series of intermittent drug seizures, Karbi Anglong police, in another successful operation, seized 723 grams of heroin valued at approximately Rs 5 crore from a passenger bus over NH-39 in East Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday. As reported, based on a specific information regarding the movement of drugs along the highway, the Barpathar police intercepted a passenger bus bearing registration number AS 19AC 0074 and on thoroughly checking the vehicle, the police team recovered a total of 64 soap boxes containing 723 grams of suspected heroin...

TV review by Steve Bennett It will come as little surprise to anyone who’s encountered Mark Kermode’s film criticism on the radio or in print that his TV essay on British comedy movies is incisive, informed and intelligent, yet effortlessly accessible. His celebration of the genre is impressively wide-ranging, from Chaplin to the Personal History Of David Copperfield via the likes of Ealing comedies, Carry Ons and the ‘Three Flavours Cornetto’ trilogy fronted by Simon Pegg. Breezy rom-coms like Bridget Jones’s Diary nestle alongside grittier work such as Ken Loach’s output. Mark K...

IN what now seems a lifetime ago, your correspondent used to be the film critic of this parish. Every week I would trot off to press screenings of…