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Nagaon, June 29: The Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KNLF) today said it was ready to call off its indefinite blockade in the two hill districts if voluntary organisations and political parties can dissuade the rival United People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) from attacking its activists.

The KNLF, earlier known as a splinter group of the UPDS, clamped the blockade on June 21 in protest against the killing of four of its members in an encounter with security forces at Donkamokam in the last week of May.

KNLF general secretary H.S. Timung said it might call off the...

Guwahati, June 29: Amid pulls and pressures from various quarters, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi today got a breather when the influential Assam Jamiat-e-Ulema decided not to clamour for ministerial berths. Jamiat working president Badruddin Azmal, who is currently in the Saudi city of Jeddah, told The Telegraph that his organisation would not make any demand to the chief minister regarding the composition of his ministry.

In the past, the organisation had openly lobbied for plum ministerial berths for minority legislators of its choice and had also voiced its opinion on the size of...

ITANAGAR, June 29 – Arunachal Pradesh Home Minister L Wanglat informed the Assembly on Monday that second-in-command of Arunachal Dragon Force (ADF) Chow Monglang along with all cadres of his underground outfit would lay down arms in a ceremony here within a day or two.

The cadres trained by NSCN-K at its Myanmar camp would surrender a cache of arms, including AK-47, AK-56, M 20 pistols and magazines, assorted ammunition, two wireless sets and SBBL guns, which they had brought from the neighbouring country to create a reign of terror in Lohit and parts of lower Dibang valley and Siang...

Shillong, June 29: Come Saturday and designers from all over the region and Delhi will flock to Shillong to take part in Shades ’04, an event to promote textiles and designs of the Northeast. The one-day event, which will be held at Pinewood Hotel, has already attracted big names in the fashion industry. Besides a show and inauguration of a fashion gallery, the event will be spiced up with a DJ nite.

Organised jointly by the Meghalaya Tourism Development Corporation and the North East Event Management Agency, the show is the first of its kind here. It has been planned with the sole purpose of...

SHILLONG, June 29 – The average level of using information technology (IT) tools in Meghalaya government’s various departments was ‘quite low’, a senior official said. Although some of the departments were doing a ‘better job’ in using IT, the ‘average level’ was still ‘quite low’, principal secretary of IT Department WMS Pariot said here while inaugurating a training programme for senior officers.

Urging the participants to use IT tools in their work in their respective offices, Pariot said this would not only help a department to speed up its routine activities on a day-to-day basis but...