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AGARTALA, Dec 21? In an attempt to enable the students of the state to compete in national level, Tripura government has decided to introduce a new education policy online with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). The new education policy, announced by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar after the cabinet approval on December 18 last, would come into force from 2005 at primary, secondary and higher secondary levels. The new education policy came in the wake of the recommendations made by first Education Commission headed by Prof Basudeb Burman, former Vice Chancellor of Kalyani University...

ITANAGAR, Dec 21? The tiny state of Arunachal Pradesh witnessed a political upheaval in 2003 that saw ruling Congress suffering a split leading to the fall of Mukut Mithi government and giving BJP the first taste of power in a north- eastern state under the leaderdship of veteran Gegong Apang, who came out of political wilderness.

Though discontent among Congress MLAs surfaced in the middle of the year, it thickened to change the political scenerio when a sizeable number of ministers and MLAs set up a camp at local hotel Bomdila on September 27. Of the total 58 Congress MLAs, including two...

IMPHAL, Dec 21?The National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isasc Muivah) extending moral support to ULFA and other revolutionary organisations which have come under heavy attack from the Bhutanese army in Bhutan for the past few days, has imposed a 24 hour bandh in all Naga areas in the North east.

The bandh began at of 6 am on Sunday 21 and will conclude at 6 am the following day, according to sources here. The outfit which is currently continuing peace talk with the Government of India since August 1997 also stated that they fully endorse the 48 hour bandh called by ULFA, NDFB and KLO.

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NEW DELHI, Dec 21 ?In a worrying development, camps operated by North East insurgents in Bangladesh have increased by about 25 over the past month touching the figure of 180 with Indian security agencies claiming to have ?concrete evidence? about al Qaeda presence in that country. The new camps in Bangladesh have been detected even as an operation is underway in Bhutan to flush-out Indian insurgents from that country. Dhaka has consistently denied presence of al Qaeda elements or NE insurgents in that country, reports PTI.

Dhaka has consistently denied presence of Al Qaeda elements or NE...

GUWAHATI, Dec 21 ? The Bhutanese Government is attaching priority to the safety of the unarmed women and children living in the Indian militants? camps in Bhutan. The Royal Government of the Himalayan kingdom is taking all the care to provide food and shelter to these inmates of the militant camps, said Director of Bhutanese Foreign Ministry Yeshey Dorji yesterday. He was talking to this correspondent at the regional Revenue and Customs Directorate of the kingdom?s Samdrup Jongkhar district yesterday.

When the Bhutanese official was talking to this correspondent at Samdrup Jongkhar, the...