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NEW DELHI, June 4 ? After its maiden foray into the Nagaland Assembly in the last elections, BJP is now planning to make a breakthrough in the pre-dominantly Christian north-eastern State of Mizoram, which goes to poll later this year, reports PTI. Party vice-president Pyarelal Khandelwal, who visited the State recently, Tuesday briefed BJP chief Venkaiah Naidu about this talks with several State leaders on the possibility of a pre-poll alliance.

While the party does not have a foothold in Mizoram, it is keen to ?open account? in the sensitive border State as part of its social and political...

GUWAHATI, June 8 ? The close nexus between the banned ULFA and the Manab Adhikar Sangram Samity (MASS) has been exposed once again with the arrest of a woman member of the outfit while she was on her way to the residence of MASS central committee member Minati Bora near the MASS office in the Bamunimaidan area of the city last night. ULFA member Kalyani Keleng alias Jonali Keleng alias Sunita Sonowal of Jagiroad was arrested at about 9.30 pm last night by a joint team of Morigaon and Guwahati city police. She was by her own admission, walking to the house of Minati Bora, rented out from one...

GUWAHATI, June 8 ? The Director General?s office of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will take up the proposal for declaring the Charaideo maidams of the State and Unokuti Tirtha of Tripura as world heritage sites with the appropriate authorities offer developing them into properly conserved archaeological sites.

Disclosing this, the outgoing superintending archaeologist of the ASI?s Guwahati Circle, Dr Syed Jamal Hasan, also told The Assam Tribune here yesterday that the ASI had no plan to send the human bones and skulls recovered in the excavated maidam (Maidam No 2 of the four...

GUWAHATI, June 8? The banned ULFA is in a state of disarray following serious, and violent, differences among its top leadership, security sources said. The state of affairs is such that large sections of its lower-level cadres are contemplating surrender. According to the sources, the widespread sense of desolation among the ULFA ranks stems largely from the battle of supremacy between the top ULFA leadership, particularly the outfit?s ?commander-in-chief? Paresh Barua and his deputy Raju Barua. While Paresh Barua is in Bangladesh enjoying the hospitality of Bangladeshi and Pakistani...

NEW DELHI, June 8 ? In keeping with the policy of rewarding insurgency affected States that have opted for peace, Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee today extended a ?peace bonus? to Nagaland announcing conversion of Rs 365 crore ?ways and means? loan to a one-time grant. The sop announced through a written statement on Sunday may also be aimed at boosting the prospect of BJP in the two northeastern States of Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh, which are going to polls. Nagaland incidentally is the second north-eastern State after Mizoram to be rewarded with a ?peace bonus.?

?Recognising the...