A 16-member Assam Police team, following directions from Google Maps, strayed into Nagaland during a raid when they were attacked and captured by local residents who mistook them for criminals.

Only three of Assam's 35 districts—Tinsukia, Sivasagar and Chariadeo districts, now remain as "disturbed areas" under the AFSPA as the banned ULFA-I has its bases in neighbouring Mynamar and is ...