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Guwahati, April 22: The NSCN’s Khaplang faction has called upon the Naga National Council to play a more active role in the search for a solution to the Naga political impasse, questioning the rival Isak-Muivah faction’s “killing” of several NNC members for surrendering to the Union government.

The Khaplang faction has drawn a parallel between Isak and Muivah’s acceptance of Indian passports and the NNC’s acceptance of the Indian Constitution with the Shillong Accord of 1975.

The outfit’s “ministry of information and publicity”, in a statement, claimed that the NSCN (I-M) had no “credibility”...

Guwahati, April 22: It is a debate of elephantine proportions, rooted in the jungles of Chattisgarh and spreading across states to finally echo in the Prime Minister’s Office.

At the centre of the debate is Parbati Barua, Asia’s only female elephant trainer. She is being hounded for allegedly using cruel and archaic methods to capture a rogue elephant in Chattisgarh in February, leading to the animal’s death.

A member of the steering committee of Project Elephant, which is being implemented by the Union ministry of environment and forests, wrote to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee recently...

NEW DELHI, April 22 — The nightmare of eviction drives on the forest land in the State may come back to haunt Assam Government, with the Union Environment and Forest Ministry putting its foot down on encroachment of forestland, even as the State’s is ranked eighth in the country in term of forest cover, which was estimated at 35.33 per cent. With the Supreme Court keeping a close watch on the issue, Union Environment and Forest Minister, TR Baalu today clarified that eviction drives to remove the unlawful people away from the forest land has to continue. The Minister, however, added that...

GUWAHATI, April 22 — Aaranyak, a society for biodiversity conservation in North East India, in association with the UK-based David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) has donated the first phase of the wireless communication equipment to the world famous Kaziranga National Park recently a press release said. The equipment consist of 40 wireless hand sets and 9 base stations along with necessary accessories. Pradyut Bordoloi, the Forest Minister of Assam handed over the equipment to the forest officials of the KNP in the ceremony held at Kohora Forest Rest House. NK Vasu, the Director of KNP...

SHILLONG, April 22 — The idea of flushing out the northeast militant organizations—United Liberation Front of Asson (ULFA), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and Kamatapur Liberation Organization (KLO) —from the soils of Bhutan through the joint army action by India and Bhutan has gradually faded away, reports North East Press Service. Although Bhutan Government had already appreciated the idea of joint military action to flush out the northeast militant organizations from its soil, the Government (Bhutan) had reportedly signaled the would-be consequences if such military action was...