GUWAHATI, January 19: Chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta's initiative to end Assam's three-decade-old boundary dispute with Meghalaya has run into rough weather, with senior Autonomous State Demand Committee leader Holiram Terang vowing not to yield "even an inch of land" to the neighbouring state. The legislator from Baithalangsu constituency in Karbi Anglong today said Mahanta was playing into the hands of Meghalaya by offering to resolve the issue on a "give-and-take basis". Claiming that his views represented those of the tribal people living in the disputed area, Terang said neither...

AGARTALA, January 19: The Border Security Force on Friday launched a special anti-insurgency operation 'Operation Sakriya' (active) to flush out militants and also to establish a sense of security among the people living in the border areas, reports UNI. Stating this, BSF's Tripura, Cachar and Mizoram (TCM) Frontier Inspector General Arvind Ranjan told newsmen that the week-long special operation would be conducted along the Indo-Bangla border with Tripura and in the terrorist prone areas. Senior BSF officials and battalion commandant would supervise the operations, which would continue...

IMPHAL, January 19: Hundreds of students today staged sit in protest at all main roads of the city against the attack on AMSU president Kh Gourashyam by unidentified gunmen inside the AMHU HQ located at the campus of DM College on January 17. Gourashyam who is also the president of the Manipur University Students' Union, MUSU, is recuperating at the JN Hospital security ward. Doctors had declared him stable. Sit in protests were held near Johnstone Higher Secondary School, Chingmeirong Khongnang Ani Karak, Singjamei, Wangkhei and in front of Human Resource Development Academy, Ghari and Little...

IMPHAL, January 18: A sharp division of opinion has surfaced within the United Front Government over the issue of the 26 point Action Plan the chief minister, W Nipamacha, signed with the Union Home minister, LK Advani, according to an insider source. Some have even expressed un-happiness at the leadership of the chief minister, according to the source. They also resented the unnecessary embarrassment caused at the discovery that the government's announcement of a 12-point action plan was false and that it actually contained 26 points. Again, some ministers had goaded the chief minister to...

KAMALABARI, January 18: The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS), Bhopal, has already made documentation of the cultural heritage of the world's largest fresh water island Majuli's people and these documents will reach the other parts of the world through the internet network, said IGRMS director Sujit Som while conducting a workshop on satra material culture at the Garamur Bangshigopal Natya Mandir this evening. While emphasising that the IGRMS has a special approach towards the heritage of NE people, he said that many human being with his or her sense of possession, has been...