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NEW DELHI, Dec 30 ? The ceasefire between Central Government and Dima Halam Daogah (DHD) has been extended for another year. The ceasefire would remain in force till December 31, next year. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) here made a formal announcement to that effect today. The suspension of hostile operation between militant outfit DHD and security forces in Assam has been extended for one more year. The suspension of hostile operations has been in operation since January 1. It was decided to extend the suspension of hostile operations between the DHD and the security forces after mutual...

GUWAHATI, Dec 30 ? Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today accused the self-styled commander-in-chief of the banned ULFA, Paresh Baruah, and other top leaders of the outfit of standing in the way of talks with Government of India. Addressing a press conference at Janata Bhawan this afternoon, Gogoi in reaction to the ULFA leaders attaching pre-conditions for talks with Government of India (GOI), said that the ULFA cadres by and large wanted to sit for talks barring a handful like Paresh Baruah who are puppets in the hands of anti-India forces in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

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Agartala, Dec. 29: The banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) has resorted to the fake currency business after exhausting all sources of earning. Three groups of militants are currently moving in South and North Tripura and Dhalai districts of the state with fake currencies in the denomination of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000, official sources here said.

The top brass of the outfit, based in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, has directed the NLFT activists and their overground agents to fetch genuine currencies worth Rs 40,000 in exchange of Rs 1 lakh fake currencies, the sources...

Agartala, Dec. 29: The erection of barbed wire fence on Tripura?s long and porous border with Bangladesh has run into troubled waters over land acquisition and related problems. The 856-km international border in the state runs through 15 subdivisions. At many places, houses, schools and government offices have fallen outside the line marked for the fence.

The issue came up for discussion in the Assembly today with PCC president Birajit Sinha pointing out that resentment was running high at many places over the issue and people were contemplating launching an agitation to protest the...

Agartala, Dec. 29: The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) successfully weathered some dissidents? bid to split the party in its state conference here even as it sprang a surprise by demanding 2,060 square miles of more areas within the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC). The tribal-based party created more organisational posts to accommodate the dissidents who had challenged the leadership of Bijay Kumar Hrangkhawal as president and Rabindra Debbarma as general secretary, sources within the INPT said.

Both Hrangkhawal and Debbarma managed to retain their...