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Aizawl, June 7: Various organisations of the Barak Valley have united under the banner of the Northeast Plains People Traders and Youth Federation to resolve differences between the Mizos and the non-Mizos living in the region. In a letter to the Mizoram government, the federation said it was keen on working towards improving the relationship between the different communities living in the state and had even formed the Plains People Fundamental Rights Protection Co-ordination Committee for the purpose.

The letter said the committee had decided to convene a meeting of the various voluntary...

NEW DELHI, June 7 - Falling short of making promises on opening dialogue with underground outfits in the North East, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has expressed its determination to tackle militancy in the region as a matter of urgent national priority. President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, in his address to both the Houses of the Parliament, which also happened to be his first address to newly-elected members of the 14th Lok Sabha, unveiled the UPA government’s plans and programme. The address itself was reiteration of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) announced earlier.

However, UPA’s...

IMPHAL, June 7 – People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) militants ambushed an Army post at Khonmunliyan Kuki area at Chandel district in Manipur resulting in heavy exchange of fire, official sources said on Monday, reports PTI. Casualties, if any, on both sides were not immediately known, the sources said. Army personnel were still combing the area after the exchange of fire yesterday, near Sajik Tampak village, to flush out the insurgents.

Suspected PREPAK insurgents had earlier attacked an Army post at Paldai area near the same village on May 5 last but no casualty was...

GERUKAMUKH (Dhemaji), June 7 – For the power-starved Assam, the delay in the projected commissioning date of the Lower Subansiri Hydro Electric Power Project, an undertaking of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), is bad news. Though dams in the seismically active North East are a cause of serious concern among sundry environmental groups, the positive side of the proposed power station is that once completed, it will feed an additional 2000 megawatts of power into the electric grids of the region.

And while the environmental groups are fuming and fretting over their...

GUWAHATI, June 7 – The Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly, Prithibi Majhi, today reserved his ruling on the prayer of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) for disqualification of two legislators – Ali Akbar Mian and Abdul Jabbar. The AGP filed a petition for disqualification of the two legislators for disobeying the three-line whip of the party in the last Rajya Sabha polls for two seats from Assam.

The Chief Whip of the AGP Legislature Party Hitendra Nath Goswami told this correspondent today that the Speaker today heard both sides and kept his ruling on the issue reserved. “We are waiting...