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Guwahati, April 8: The seven-member advisory group to the ministry of home affairs, set up to look into the security loopholes in the seven northeastern states, today rued that despite several attempts, it has not been able to meet any of the chief ministers except Tarun Gogoi.

The group, which include among others, supercop K.P.S. Gill, former Arunachal Pradesh chief secretary S.K. Agnihotri and Lt. Gen. (retired) S.K. Pillai, was also supposed to recommend measures to plug those loopholes.

“We have been trying for the past six months to meet all the chief ministers. But we managed to meet...

GUWAHATI, April 8 – The whole system of governance in the North-east has failed or is in a state of collapse. A parallel system of government exists in the region in the form of militants. Most of the money spent in the North-east ultimately ends up in the hands of militants. These were the grim observations of a group of retired bureaucrats, police and military officers who constitute the North East Study Group (NESG). The advisory group, set up on the instructions of Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani in November 2001, is chaired by former Meghalaya chief secretary SK Agnihotri and has...

Silchar/Guwahati, April 8: Tension continued to crackle in the twin districts of Cachar and North Cachar Hills after the recovery of an unidentified body today, while the Assembly team that had visited the strife-torn areas blamed both Hmar and Dimasa militants for the ongoing ethnic feud.

The toll in the ethnic riots was revised to 24 after the body of a suspected victim in the massacre on March 31 came floating down the Rukni river, near Monierkhal in Cachar district, this morning.

Section 144 CrPC was clamped in Halflong town as a precautionary step after miscreants set fire to a scooter...

GUWAHATI, April 8 — The Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today informed that the State Government was in touch with Mizoram and Manipur governments for initiating coordinated action to tackle the ethnic violence that has flared up along the inter-State boundary areas in the Cachar district of Assam. Talking to newsmen here, Sri Gogoi stated that as the Hmar People’s Convention (HPC) extremists involved in ethnic cleansing of Dimasas in Cachar areas were based in those two neighbouring States, the coordination with the two State governments was the need of the hour to control the ethnic violence in...

GUWAHATI, April 7 — The maidams of Charaideo in Sivasagar District are unique monuments. The practice of burying the dead ones, as has been found in the maidams, is to be found nowhere in the rest of India. The structure of the one excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is also huge and unique. It resembles only the Egyptian pyramids, said Dr Syed Jamal Hasan, Superintending Archaeologist of the ASI’s Guwahati Circle.

Dr Hasan, who was the director of the excavation works of the Maidam No. 2 of the four maidams, declared as centrally protected sites by the Government of India...