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GUWAHATI, April 11 — Proper explorations along the different routes which had connected the North eastern region with Myanmar, China, Tibet and other South-Asian countries and the mainland India, may lead to discovery of large number of ancient settlements. The river valleys of the Brahmaputra and the Barak and their tributaries are important hence for archaeological exploration.

These are the observations made by Syed Jamal Hasan, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Guwahati Circle and Sri Bimal Sinha, Assistant Archaeologist, ASI, Guwahati Circle, in a paper...

SHILLONG, April 11 — Meghalaya Government today decided to go ahead to form a joint command of the police forces of the State and neighbouring Assam to better facilitate coordination in tackling militancy in the two States.

The decision was taken at a meeting here today, Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang told newsmen. The joint command is expected to help both the States in curbing growing militant activities. The banned ULFA and NDFB ultras are known to have set up hide-outs in Meghalaya specially the Garo Hills area to escape the dragnet of the Unified Command.

Both the ULFA and NDFB...

GUWAHATI, April 11 — Intelligence agencies in the State have once again warned of the possibility of the banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) trying to attack leaders of the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) and the All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU) in order to destablise the peace process that has been initiated with the MoU on the BTC.

Intelligence sources confirmed that the NDFB is planning to eliminate some of the top BLT and ABSU leaders. Top on the list of possible targets are BLT vice president Kamal Mushary alias Chandan Brahma and its publicity secretary Mainao Daimary alias...

MIRZA, April 10 — The blacksmiths of Palashbari constituency whose smithies (workshops) — which are a legacy of their ancestors spanning more than one hundred years are a frustrated lot nowadays. The trade which earns them two spartan meals a day is a laborious one and no longer a paying one. Cutlers predominate the Amranga Medhipara area of Boridhat. Their ironworks include knives, cleavers, ploughs and tools of carpentry except saw. Selling them in the market sometimes for a song they get a paltry amount by which they can hardly maintain their families.

“Time was when a bagful of essential...

SOMEWHERE (Along) INDO-MYANMAR BORDER, April 9 – A number of militant outfits of this region have been taking shelters and imparting training inside hideouts in the Myanmar territory apart from transportation of sophisticated military equipment from the south east Asian countries into India’s porous north eastern states. This is despite the moves of the Myanmar military regime initiated for flushing out the North East underground militants’ from their camps inside the Myanmar territory with the killing of five activists of the banned NSCN (K) men along the Nagaland-Myanmar border last year...