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GUWAHATI, Dec 24 ?The banned United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) today virtually rejected the general amnesty offered by the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for those ultras who are willing to give up arms. In a statement e-mailed to this newspaper office this evening, the banned outfit came down heavily on Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for giving call to the members of the outfit to surrender in the wake of the military offensive launched by the Bhutanese Army. The ULFA criticised the Chief Minister for showing the ?audacity? to give the call to surrender at a time when ?barbaric Bhutanese? Army...

DARRANGAMELA (Indo-Bhutan border), Dec 24 ? The Royal Bhutan Army was heading towards its goal of flushing out Indian militants from their soil on the tenth day of their ?Operation All Clear?, reports PTI. After demolishing 30 camps set up by the militants in their kingdom, the troops cordoned off the area near the camps to search for the rebels who fled after they were dislodged, official sources in Bhutan told a visiting PTI correspondent.

With no leaders to give them directions, nowhere to go and hungry, the fleeing militants were desperate to surrender to either the RBA or Indian...

GUWAHATI, Dec 24 ? Governor of Assam Lt Gen (retd) Ajai Singh today claimed that some major leaders of the banned ULFA, NDFB and KLO outfits who are on the run in Bhutan have established contact with the security forces in the country expressing desire to surrender. Talking to the media at Raj Bhawan here for the first time since the Royal Bhutan Army launched the crackdown on Northeast militants outfits, the Governor sent out the message to the ultras that those who are willing to surrender could do so at the nearest security post in the country without fear for their lives as the Government...

TAMULPUR, Dec 24 ? Ending the week-long speculation, the Royal Government of Bhutan today handed over 64 kin of the ULFA militants at Samdrup Jongkhar to the Nalbari district administration. Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Samdrup Jongkhar formally handed over the militants? kin to the DC of Nalbari at the Samdrup Jongkhar High School this morning.

The kin were later taken to the Tampulpur 30-bedded Hospital campus by the Nalbari district administration by two buses. The kin included 37 women and 27 children .Five of the women were unmarried.The women included the wife of Ashanta Bagh Phukan...

Nagaon, Dec 23: The last batch of Khasi-Pnar refugees returned to their homes in Karbi Anglong yesterday after spending over two months in Meghalaya. Over 4,000 Khasi-Pnar residents of blocks I and II of Karbi Anglong had fled their homes and taken shelter in the Jaintia Hills after being served extortion notes by the militant United People?s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS), which professes to represent the Karbi community. The result was a backlash against Karbis residing in Meghalaya.

The situation, however, appears to be limping back to normality with the final batch of about 500 refugees...