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Imphal, June 06: Setting the stage for yet another possible spurt of feuds, the PREPAK has today warned all the defectors to either return to the ‘mainstream’ by July 6 or else pay the consequences. The outfit has also stated that if the defectors do not return by the deadline set then the family members of the renegade members should pay a sum of Rs 5 lakhs as fines for the weapons taken away. In a hard hitting statement issued to the press today, the outfit said that its cadre, Khaidem Sharju alias Sharat (22) of Kumbi bazar Leikai was done to death by the defectors after severe torture in...

GUWAHATI, June 5: Indigenous communities of the north-eastern region have expressed deep dissatisfaction with the draft National Policy on Tribals formulated by the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs, the provisions provided therein and the manner in which the indigenous peoples were projected in it. Characterizing the national policy as arbitrary, ill-informed, patronizing and fundamentally flawed, the three-day regional consultation on the draft , which concluded at Akajan in Dhemaji district today, called for a complete redrafting of the document with proper consultations with the people...

SHILLONG, June 5 – Amidst protests from certain social bodies against uranium mining in Meghalaya, the Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar today allayed apprehensions about ill-effects of radiation. Speaking at a national symposium on environment to mark the World Environment Day here, Kakodkar said radiation is part of nature occurring since the ‘big bang’ resulting in the evolution of matter, element and life, and it existed in nature irrespective of ‘where you are’ in the solar system. Even energy from the sun, which was the source of human life on earth, was also a process...

SHILLONG, June 5 – President APJ Abdul Kalam has deputed the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) of India, Dr Anil Kakodkar to Meghalaya to dispel apprehensions regarding possible radiation hazards arising out of the proposed uranium mining project at Domiasiat in the West Khasi Hills district of the State. Dr Kalam had assured a group of MLAs from Meghalaya, who called on him last month at New Delhi of soon deputing a team of experts to explain the ground realities of uranium mining, in the wake of stiff opposition to the proposed mining by certain NGOs on the ground that this...

DIMAPUR, June 5 – Reacting to the allegation made by NSCN-K that Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio had rushed to New Delhi to seek favour from the Congress and rejoin the party, Nagaland Parliamentary Affairs Minister Doshehe Y. Sema on Friday denied the report terming it false and unfounded. Dismissing the possibility of DAN rejoining the Congress, Doshehe said that DAN leaders had not discussed with any person the topic of joining the Congress.He also denied that Chief Minister Rio had secret talks with the NSCN-IM on May 27 at the Chief Minister’s residence in Kohima.

“These allegations are...