ITANAGAR, Nov 27 ? Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran today visited the border areas in Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh to assess the trade potential at the international border there with China and Bhutan, reports PTI.

Saran, who arrived here on a three-day visit yesterday, accompanied by Chief Minister Gegong Apang visited several points, including Gelling bordering China. After a night halt at Yingkion he will visit Tawang tomorrow which borders China and Bhutan, official sources said here.

Upper Siang Deputy Commissioner G Padu said there are two border trade points with China in the...

NEW DELHI, Nov 27 ? The Centre has proposed to rush an emissary to meet the NSCN (IM) leaders to persuade them to come for talks with the Government of India, Nagaland, Chief Minister, N. Rio told newsmen here today. A visibly tense-looking Chief Minister has air dashed to Delhi to press the Centre to break the unexpected deadlock in the Naga peace process.

After a half-an-hour-long meeting with Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil at his North Block office, the Chief Minister managed to extract an assurance that an emissary would be sent to meet the Naga leaders. The responsibility is again...

GUWAHATI, Nov 27 ? Militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) today alleged that the Government of India was maintaining double standard on the issue of talks and demanded a plebiscite on the issue of sovereignty of Assam. In a statement released to the media on the occasion of protest day observed by the outfit, ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa assured that they would follow the verdict of the plebiscite and the Government of India should also follow the same.

Rajkhowa said that the ULFA has been trying to solve the issue through peaceful means through dialogues, as ?we know that...

NEW DELHI, Nov 26 ? Leaders of insurgent outfit National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), who met Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil here, today said they had asked the Centre to ensure that the Left Front government in the state does not ?violate? the ceasefire agreement with them, reports PTI.

?The Tripura government is creating obstacles in the process of peace and political dialogue,? NLFT chief Nokbar Borak, alias Nayanbashi Jamatiya told PTI here after he and other leaders of the outfit held two days of tripartite talks with Union Home Ministry and state government officials.

The NLFT...

IMPHAL, Nov 26 ? Monitoring the education system under its Operation New Kangleipak, armed cadres of the banned underground Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup, (KYKL) abducted eight teachers including two lady teachers of the National Institute of Open Schools, Manipur. They shot at the legs of the six male teachers and caned black and blue the two women.

The punishments were meted out after the teachers were paraded before select mediamen on Wednesday night for their being the bane in ushering in quality education, a spokesman of the outfit told the newsmen in a press meet somewhere in Ukhrul district...