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Imphal, June 11: The banned United National Liberation Front (UNLF) and the United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF) ? two rival outfits of Manipur ? have reportedly agreed to end hostilities.

The two outfits have clashed in recent times, resulting in some casualties. In a statement, the UNLF said both outfits have agreed not to strike at each other. The truce was reached during a meeting of the leaders of the two outfits held on June 8.

The statement said both sides would now work towards resettling villagers displaced as a result of clashes between them.

Reports said rivalry between the unlf...

Shillong, June 11: Meghalaya has been identified as one of the seven states in the country where intensive research on medicinal plants will be taken up by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in association with the Meghalaya government.

The convenor of the state-level planning committee on conservation and sustainable utilisation of medicinal plants, B. Kharbuli, said that a draft proposal on the initiatives has already been prepared. It was presented to chief minister D.D. Lapang during a meeting of the state-level planning committee yesterday.

Kharbuli said the project on...

Shillong, June 11: The rescue of six teenaged girls taken from the Northeast to brothels in Mumbai has left police and monitoring agencies in the Northeast in a tizzy. The incident has taken place on the eve of an international meeting on anti-trafficking to be held in Shillong on Friday.

According to members of the state chapter of the Action against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children (Atsec), the girls were found in a ?notorious brothel? called ?Congress house?, situated on Grant Road in Mumbai, by members of the Mumbai International Justice Mission.

According to a report...

DIBRUGARH, June 12 ? An assistant manager of the Modarkhat tea estate near Tengakhat in the Dibrugarh district was today lynched by a group of irate tea workers. He later succumbed to his injuries. A group of about 8 to 10 persons went to the assistant manager of the estate, Mukul Dowerah, this morning, asking for work. Of these, three were sacked from service about a fortnight ago for unauthorized absence from work over a prolonged period. Moreover, as there was no vacancy, he told the group accordingly and went out to the Sadavisa out garden for his routine duties. As he returned to his...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? The outlawed National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) has ?warned? the leaders of the All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU) and members of the Boro Legislature Party and Parliamentarians who have been ?carrying about their selfish political gameplan through the use of their muscle power called the BTC.? The outfit?s information and publicity secretary B Erakdao has accused the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) and the army of perpetrating atrocities on ?innocent Boro people.? In an e-mailed statement here, Erakdao accused the Government of India of engaging itself in a...