Insurgency / Assam

NEW DELHI, Feb 3 ? In a significant move to quell tension in Manipur and Assam over the Naga issues, NSCN(I-M) has said it ?fully recognises the legitimate rights and aspirations? of all neighbouring people and offered to hold talks with them to resolve the differences, reports PTI. ?Let us end tensions that have sometimes existed between us and live as good neighbours, who respect each other?s rights and aspirations. We are convinced that there should be no differences between us that cannot be resolved through dialogue and understanding,? the major Naga insurgent group said in a statement, a...

GUWAHATI, Feb 3 ? Dima Haleng Daogah (DHD) president Joel Garalosa has warned that no one should be under illusion that the outfit has signed the ceasefire pact with the Government of India (GOI) security forces out of its ?weakness?. Inaugurating the truce-time office of the ?People?s Supreme Council of Dimaraji? at Haflong yesterday, the DHD president stated that outfit would not hesitate to go back to arms if it found that the peace efforts with the Government of India was not going to deliver in the interests of Dimasa people.

Delivering his address in presence of the civil officials of...

GUWAHATI, Feb 3 ? The State Cabinet today decided to offer two options to the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) to resolve the stalemate over reservation of seats in the proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC).

A highly-placed source informed that the State Cabinet today, in its bid to remove the stalemate vis-a-vis creation of the BTC, resolved that the BLT should accept anyone of the two options made available to them to facilitate creation of the BTC. The two options on seat reservation in the BTC being offered to the BLT are : 30 seats for tribals and 10 seats for non-tribals or 30 seats...

GANGTOK, Feb 1 ? Vice-chairman of the banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) Dhiren Boro and his three accomplices, who were arrested at Sikkim on New Year?s day, were taken to Assam for further investigation and trial. Sikkim Police DIG (Range) SD Negi said Boro, his wife Pratima and two accomplices were taken to Assam by train on Thursday by a team of Assam Police. ?The NDFB leader will be tried there and may be brought back hereto Sikkim if the court needs them,? Negi said. Boro along with the three was arrested here from a rented house by a team of Sikkim Police and booked...

GUWAHATI, Jan 31 ? The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is focusing on accident prevention, safety measures and infrastructure development despite the constant threat from the ultras in the region. Addressing mediapersons at NF Railway headquarters here today, the General Manager of the Railways Vipan Nanda informed that efforts would be geared up to reduce possibility of accidents. He informed that trial of Anti-Collision Device (ACD) was completed in NF Railway and was currently under field trial in Northern Railway. Once the field trials are over, the ACDs are likely to be introduced in the...

Guwahati, Jan. 29: In a move sure to raise the hackles of the NSCN (I-M), the Dima Halam Daoga (DHD) has launched a campaign to garner support for the inclusion of Dimapur in the separate ?Dimaraji state? demanded by the outfit.

In a message to the ?citizens of Dimaraji,? the outfit has claimed that the Sundaram Committee appointed by the Centre for ascertaining facts regarding the Assam-Nagaland border had recommended that ?Dimapur should be returned to Assam?.

To substantiate its claim that the inclusion of Dimapur in Nagaland was ?temporary,? the militant outfit claimed that the first...

GUWAHATI, Jan 28 ? Five members of a family were killed by suspected Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) militants at Duligaon village under Bogribari police station in Dhubri district last night. Police sources in Dhubri told The Assam Tribune here this evening that a BLT member Rajiv Brahma escaped from a camp of the outfit located at Basbari with weapons on the night of January 26 last. Last night, a group of armed militants raided the house of Rajiv and shot dead his father Suren Brahma, mother Rene Brahma, brothers Bikramjit Brahma and Sujit Brahma and sister Manashree Brahma. Rajiv was not at...

Guwahati, Jan. 24: Peeved over the NSCN (I-M)?s claim over a large area of Karbi Anglong in its proposed Nagalim, the Karbi Students? Association has decided to submit a representation to the Centre opposing any move to divide the hill district.

The association president Roland Kiling told The Telegraph here that the representation would be sent to the Centre after an official resolution is passed at the general conference of the students? organisation to be held at Diphu from January 29.

?Karbi Anglong is for the Karbis and there can be no question of giving even an inch of our land to others...

Rangiya, Jan. 24: A land deluged with milk and honey ? this was Bodoland viewed through the prism of wild jungles in Bhutan, where Promilla Ishwari and her militant-husband Lohit Ishwari fought a futile battle.

Nothing came out of the fight for ?freedom, equality and justice? ? ideals, which Lohit had strapped to his soul like a priest?s cross.

Lohit, with Promila in tow, today deposited the gun at a surrender ceremony involving several NDFB and Ulfa rebels, held at the Red Horns division?s base in this Kamrup sub-division.

After three years of life in jungles for the cause of Bodoland...

GUWAHATI, Jan 24 ? Even as the city police continued its city-wide raid and search operations in the run-up to the Republic Day celebrations on Sunday, it achieved a major success this evening by unearthing 55 rounds of assorted ammunition from the campus of the Assam State Zoo. Police sources said that a tip off was received about suspected ULFA cadres trying to conceal some arms and ammunition in the zoo campus. Based on that, a police team, led by DSP Nanda Singh, discovered the bullets buried in the ground in the eastern corner of the zoo. The booty included 26 rounds of AK-47 ammunition...