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Silchar, June 6: Bru refugees displaced from Mizoram after ethnic riots and settled in relief camps in North Tripura since November 1997, have demanded the Centre?s intervention to resolve their repatriation problem.

Bruno Msha, president of the Mizoram Bru Refugee Committee, said here recently that it was high time the Centre intervened to resolve the impasse. He said more than 3,600 refugees have died of various diseases in the camps in the past six years.

He regretted that since the last round of talks between the Bru refugee leaders and the Mizoram government in 2001, no major initiative...

Agartala, June 6: The Reangs, second largest tribal group in Tripura, are demanding formal recognition of their language Kai Bru as separate from Kokborok, the mainstream tribal language of the state.

Several seminars and meetings have been held in the Reang-dominated areas of Kanchanpur in North Tripura and Shantir Bazar in South Tripura to press for the demand. A Reang-dominated outfit, Bru National Renaissance Organisation (BNRO), is spearheading the struggle for recognition of Kai Bru. However, the Tripuri, Jamatya, Noatia and other tribal groups have opposed the demand.

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SHILLONG, June 6 ? ?We want to start the project for mining uranium in Domiasiat, West Khasi Hills district only with people?s cooperation,? Chairman, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL), Dr R Gupta declared on Thursday. ?Although the exploration for uranium deposits in Domiasiat was completed in 1992, mining has not been taken up till date due to the apprehensions in the minds of the people of the area and in the State of Meghalaya as a whole,? Gupta told reporters on the sidelines of a national seminar on ?Environmental and Sociological Implications of Mining of Minerals and Oil...

AGARTALA, June 6 ? Following his the footsteps of the outlawed All Tripura Tribal Force (ATTF), the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) recently changed its name to ?Plungers and Rangers? to avoid police action, CRPF IG, Tripura, Sukhjinder Singh said Thursday, reports PTI.

?We have definite information that both two banned insurgent outfits ATTF and NLFT have changed their names,? Singh said. The ATTF, the armed wing of the Tripura People?s Democratic Front (TPDF), in a press statement recently stated that it had changed its name to Revolutionary People?s Army (RPA) in the...

IMPHAL, June 6 ? Manipur government has extended the disturbed area status of the state under Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, for one more year from Sunday, a government notification said, reports PTI. The notification, issued Saturday, said the disturbed area status had been extended under the act to enable the armed forces aid the civil administration in tackling insurgents in the state.

Official sources said Manipur cabinet had on May 24 decided to extend the disturbed area status for one more year in view of increasing insurgency-related violence and incidents. The sources said...