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IMPHAL, April 29 – The Central government will be launching a new project for having double lane on the National Highway-53, connecting Imphal with Silchar. The Union Surface and Transport Minister has given an assurance to this effect. India’s National Highways connecting Myanmar (formerly Burma) through the north-eastern states, particularly Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Assam, have been reduced to targets of the lawful and unlawful organisations. The NHs passing through Manipur are the lifelines for the people of this State which borders western Myanmar.All essential commodities are...

Guwahati, April 28: In village after village across Assam, a silent revolution is changing the face of the once superstition-ridden society and giving a new mantra of life to hardened criminals.

Consider this: In Khagail village of Karimganj district, former dacoits are now actually serving as village policemen and helping the people combat crime at the grassroots level.

Indeed, just two years after its launch, Assam police’s ambitious Project Prahari has brought back smiles on the faces of thousands of people and proved the sceptics wrong.

An acronym for “people for progress”, Project...

GUWAHATI, April 28 — Close on the heels of ethnic riots between Dimasa and Hmar communities in the districts of North Cachar Hills and Cachar, threat of another ethnic strife over the issue of granting Scheduled Tribe (Hills) status to the Bodos living in the hill districts is looming large in Karbi Anglong.

According to the Clause 8 of the Memorandum of Settlement signed between the Central and State Governments and Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT), the government would consider sympathetically the issue of granting ST(H) status to the Bodo Kacharis living in the Karbi Anglong and NC Hills...

Guwahati, April 27: The apex organisation of the Dimasa tribe today urged the Assam government to flush out Hmar militants from Cachar and North Cachar Hills, saying they were responsible for the spate of ethnic clashes in the twin districts.

The Jadikhe Naisho Hoshom (JNH) said militants of the Hmar People’s Convention (Democratic) had infiltrated the strife-torn districts from adjacent Manipur and Mizoram to instigate the Hmar community to fight with the Dimasas.

Waimijing, another Dimasa organisation, made a similar statement in a memorandum to chief minister Tarun Gogoi.

The JNH asked the...

GUWAHATI, April 27— The Jadikhe Naisho Hoshom (JNH), the apex body of the Dimasas, today called upon all quarters concerned not to indulge in any activity which may provoke fresh conflicts between Dimasas and Hmars of NC Hills and Cachar districts. Meanwhile, a delegation of the All Dimasa Students’ Union (ADSU) has left for New Delhi to raise the issue of Dimasa-Hmar confict at the national-level and also to mount pressure on the Central Government to expedite the peace process between itself (Centre) and the Dima Halom Daoga (DHD). The ADSU delegation in New Delhi will also place the demand...