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SHILLONG, June 4 – The Meghalaya Government will soon take up the issue of state-based militant camps in Bangladesh with the new government at the Centre, as part of a fresh approach towards tackling the menace of militancy. Chief Minister DD Lapang and Home Minister Robert G Lyngdoh will visit New Delhi to meet Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil to discuss militancy in the state, besides the issue of North-east-based militant camps in Bangladesh after the state budget session in the end of the current month.

It may be mentioned here that the Border Security Force (BSF) has handed over a fresh...

Imphal, June 04: In yet another slur cast on the security personnel, family members of Thingom Surjit alias Rocky (25) of Thamnapokpi Mayai Leikai alleged that the youth was picked up by security force personnel and later done to death and not as claimed by 33 Assam Rifles authorities that Surjit was killed in an encounter. Mention may be made that Surjit was killed on May 2 evening near Kakching Khunou Tokpa Ching under Waikhong police station. The accusation by Surjit's family members follows official identification of the body today. Surjit, who left home some four years back is reported to...

NEW DELHI, June 4 — The Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Airport is likely to become hub of air operation of Alliance Air’s regional air service and the North-East is again going to be back on the international air map with Indian Airlines shortly resuming the Guwahati-Bangkok flight. Announcing this at a press conference here today Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the assurance to the effect was given by Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel. The shifting of operational base of the regional air service from Kolkata to Guwahati was a long-pending demand as was the demand for resumption of the...

AKAJAN (Dhemaji), June 4 – The north-eastern regional assembly of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Organisation with Allies after three-day deliberations at Rural Volunteers’ Centre, Akajan in Dhemaji district, today came out with a ‘position statement’ on the Government of India’s Draft National Policy on Tribals (DNPT).

It said that in the interim period till the finalisation of the policy document, in all new development activities, industrial or commercial, interventions must be suspended in the indigenous and tribal people-inhabited areas. All policies and laws affecting indigenous and...

Guwahati/Nagaon, June 4: Pressure is mounting on the Assam government to secure the release of minister G.C. Langthasa’s youngest son Nirmalendu from Ulfa captivity before the impasse causes an ethnic divide. In a memorandum to chief minister Tarun Gogoi, the apex community organisation of the Dimasas said the relationship between the people of the hills and the plains was as much at stake as Nirmalendu’s safety.

“The community desires that Nirmalendu should come back safe, unharmed and immediately. It is only recently that N.C. Hills returned to normality from months of ethnic violence, and...