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GUWAHATI, Dec 23: Bhutan does not see the need for involvement of the International Committee of Red Cross at present in the evacuation of non-combatant women and children of the ULFA, NDFB and KLO camps, demolished in the operation against the outfits by its Army. Bhutan Deputy Head of Mission in India Thinley Penjor told PTI today from New Delhi over phone that the ICRC had met ambassador Dago Tshering yesterday with a request to allow its delegation to visit the kingdom. ?The government at this stage does not see the need for their (ICRC) involvement. Their help will be taken later if...

NEW DELHI, Dec 23: It is again bad news for Assam with the Central Government drastically slashing down its demand for assistance of Rs 1,134.45 crore to Rs 70 crore for relief and restoration work in the wake of floods this year. In a written reply to a question tabled in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Home Affairs Swami Chinmayanand said that Government of Assam had submitted a memorandum seeking assistance for relief and restoration measures for various sectors, including infrastructure, in the wake of floods this year. The high level committee that met in October to consider the demands...

Agartala, Dec. 22: In a new twist to the insurgency equations in Tripura, two outfits have taken on the most powerful faction. This is likely to trigger fresh factional clashes in interior areas. The Nayanbasi faction of the National Liberation Front of Tripura and the All Tripura Tiger Force have decided to gang up against the official group of the NLFT led by Biswamohan Debbarma.

Already the two outfits have launched joint operations against the NLFT group led by Biswamohan Debbarma in remote areas of trouble-torn Takarjala police station.

Official agencies keeping tabs on militant...

GUWAHATI, Dec 23 ? The Gauhati High Court has directed that NDFB publicity secretary B Erakdao and some other militants captured during operations in Bhutan be handed over to the nearest police station if they were in army custody. A Division Bench comprising Justice D Biswas and Justice I Ansari also directed the state government to immediately produce Erakdao before a magistrate within 24 hours. The Bench was hearing a Habeas Corpus filed by Erakdao?s niece Regina Narzary stating that he had been handed over to the Indian Army on December 16 but the State administration was yet to locate him...

NEW DELHI, Dec 23: Flooded with demands for recognition of languages under the Eight Schedule of the Constitution, the Government of India has decided to bring out a comprehensive list of languages in consultation with linguistic experts, Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani disclosed here today. He was replying to a discussion in the Rajya Sabha on the Constitution (One-hundredth Amendment) Bill that proposes to give recognition to Bodo, Santhali, Bhojpuri, Maithili and Dogri languages under the Eight Schedule of the Constitution. The Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha yesterday. The decision to...