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GUWAHATI, Dec 7 ? The one-man enquiry commission, headed by Sri TL Baruah, IAS (Retd), which probed the cases of allotments in the city?s green belts, has observed that under the prevailing circumstances, it would be futile to keep certain areas reserved as Green Belt Zone. The prevailing situation is such that even the Standing Appeal Committee of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) had failed to protect the green belt areas and both the GMC and the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) had failed to maintain an effective mechanism for regular physical verification of the...

GUWAHATI, Dec 7 ? The Karbi Students? Association (KSA) and the Khasi Students? Union (KSU) have decided to put pressure on the governments of Assam and Meghalaya respectively, as well as the concerned autonomous councils, to resolve the boundary problem once for all. The two student bodies want the problem to be resolved on the basis of ?historical evidence and documents.?

The decision to this effect was taken in the meeting between the leaders of the KSA and the KSU held at Shillong yesterday, KSA general secretary Pankaj Teron said today. The central issue during yesterday?s meeting was...

KOKRAJHAR, Dec 7 ? A new chapter in political history of Assam got under way today with the swearing in of the interim body of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) in presence of the Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani. Meanwhile, taking this opportunity, the Deputy Prime Minister called upon all the militants groups of India to follow the path shown by the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) and to come forward for talks with the Government for solving their problems.

A 12 member interim council of the BTC, headed by former chief of the BLT Hagrama Basumatary alias Hagrama Mohilary, was sworn in by...

Kokrajhar, Dec. 6: Adivasi Seva Samity chairman Badan Hasda, who is among the two non-Bodos in the 12-member interim Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD) Council, today oozed confidence in the new administrative set-up. ?The new administrative set-up would go a long way in meeting the hopes and aspirations of the local populace by ushering in development,? the Adivasi leader said.

Reviewing rehabilitation schemes at the Joypur relief camp in Kokrajhar district today, Hasda said, ?As a non-Bodo and more so as an Adivasi leader, I believe the democratic and political rights of non-Bodos...

Imphal, December 06: Piqued at Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee?s reported remark that integration of Naga areas in the North-east was not possible because of lack of consensus among all parties, NSCN(IM) today said peace talks with the Centre cannot be continued unless the Government clarifies its stand on the issue. "We took the remarks very seriously. Unless they are clarified the talks between the two sides can?t be carried on further. He has shut the door against us," NSCN(IM) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah told PTI after two rounds of talks with Centre?s interlocutor K...