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GUWAHATI, June 6?The State Government has made a fresh request to the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs to reconsider the demand of the Koch-Rajbongshis of the State for inclusion in the list of Scheduled Tribes (ST), excluding areas of North Cachar Hills and Karbi Anglong Autonomous Councils.

The justification provided by the State for inclusion of Koch-Rajbongshis in the ST list is that these people are categorised as STs in West Bengal and Meghalaya, while in Tripura, they are treated as Scheduled Caste (SC); the Assam Institute of Research and Training also recommended inclusion of...

GUWAHATI, June 5 ? Dowry being a universal phenomenon in India, Assamese society too joins the bandwagon, reveals a study conducted in Kamrup, Barpeta, Dibrugarh, Dhubri and Sonitpur at the behest of the Assam state committee of All India Democratic Women?s Association (AIDWA).

The study was conducted in the five district involving 234 unmarried women and 237 guardians, with 20.9 per cent of the respondents having held that dowry as a system is common among Assamese people. However 79 per cent of the respondents felt that they can be married without dowry while 20.9 per cent felt that they...

IMPHAL, June 5 ? In a major breakthrough, a combined force of state police Wednesday gunned down Chief of Army Staff of the banned Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) who was involved in the kidnapping of many officials including a German national during an exchange of fire in Maphou dam area under Lamlai police station in Imphal east district.

Another leader identified as Thangkhomang Lupheng (28), a resident of Maphou dam area of the outfit was also arrested during an operation conducted at Games Village in Langol in Imphal West district in the wee hours of Wednesday. The additional director...

AGARTALA, June 5 ? In the largest-ever surrender ceremony in the recent past 71 militants belonging to prescribed NLFT (Biswamohan group) and Borok National Council of Tripura, a fringe outfit, laid down arms before the IG CRPF Sukhjinder Singh Thursday. Thirty militants out of total 71 were hardcore extremists belonging to NLFT. Others from the BNCT used to work as local collaborators of the NLFT under the banner of BNCT. As many as 74 militants had earlier come overground at the initiatives of the CRPF battalions deployed in the state during the last three months on separate occasions. But...

GUWAHATI, June 5? Monsoon has hit the eastern region on June 5 at 22 degree north and 920 east, said D. Sinha, Director meteorological centre, Guwahati. Talking to this correspondent the Director informed that the delayed monsoon has hit Silchar, Tezpur and has advanced upto Manipur, Nagaland and at eastern parts of Mizoram, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, he said. The delay in the onset of monsoon was due to the cyclonic winds in the month of May. The cyclonic wind has disturbed the normal pattern of monsoon, but with monsoon on rainfall is likely to occur in many places, in the North East, he...