HAILAKANDI, July 17 - A fear psychosis has gripped the people of the three districts of Barak Valley due to the spurt in the activities of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the area. People fear that the ISI agents may strike in the valley in any time. The district administration of Karimganj has tightened vigil along the border with a view to stop the entry of ISI-supported infiltrators from Bangladesh. The district administration was alerted by intelligence agencies that ISI agents and supporters were active in the area. Infiltrators from Bangladesh have been changing the...

New Delhi, July 16: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has set a deadline of August 9 to complete the process of forming State units in all the North Eastern States. The NCP's agenda for the NE is all set and a draft manifesto for the region is under preparation which will be discussed at a crucial meeting of the Core Committee on July 24 at Guwahati, the NCP's observer and in-charge for NE, BB Dutta told The Assam Tribune here today, on his return from the region. The Core Committee, which is the supreme decision-making body of the party in the region, has been formed with former Assam...

Guwahati, July 16: The state Janata Dal (JD) on Friday expressed its willingness to work jointly with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) without any condition. Disclosing this, NCP spokesman for NE region Advocate Dilip Kumar Hazarika said that the state JD's move came in the wake of JD's central leaders Madhu Dandavate and Bapu Kaldate's move to work jointly with the NCP in Maharashtra recently. Meanwhile, State Lok Shakti has also expressed its willingness to merge with the NCP. However, as the NCP is yet to form its State Committee, the NCP has asked the State Lok Shakti president...

Agartala, July 15: The Tripura Pradesh Congress general secretary Ratan Lal Nath, MLA, has been expelled from the party for six years for questioning the credentials of party president Sonia Gandhi as a Prime Ministerial candidate. The TPCC spokesman Tapan Das said that the decision was conveyed to the state unit by the AICC on Thursday. Nath was not available for comment.

Guwahati, July 17: The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has drawn up an exhaustive plan for launching major offensives, including bomb blasts, during the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections in Assam even as it conspires to sabotage troop movement from here to Kargil. Official sources said here on Saturday quoted the ULFA western unit women's wing leader Minati Sutradhar alias Nizara Medhi as stating that the militants were undergoing intensive training on detonation of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and were instructed to remain prepared for any situation during the hustings...