GUWAHATI, Dec 2 ? The Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC) today threatened to snap its ?working understanding? with the BJP for the failure of the BJP-led Government in the Centre to resume talks on creation of an autonomous state in Karbi Anglong and NC Hills. Stating that the MoU signed with the Government in 1995 has failed to fulfil the aspirations of the people in the two hill districts, the ASDC has announced its decision to launch fresh agitation with a 48-hour hill areas bandh beginning at 5 am on December 13 next. However, essential services and examinations have been exempted...

IMPHAL, Dec 2 ? Seventeen militants were killed, 107 others arrested and several arms and underground materials recovered by BSF in the past one year in Manipur, BSF DIG (Manipur and Nagaland) PK Misra said on Sunday, reports PTI. Misra said in a statement 10 militants belonging to different outfits had also surrendered to the para-military forces, which had been deployed to assist the counter-insurgency operations in the sensitive state. The militants killed or nabbed belonged to different underground groups, he said adding 58 arms including AK 47 rifles, light machine guns, pistols and 2693...

AGARTALA, Dec 2 ? Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura will demand 18 ST reserved and two general seats from the alliance partner Congress. The Central Working Committee of the INPT held a six-hour meeting Saturday at old ADC building in Palace Compound to discuss the political impasse that had arisen out of Congress stand not to share more than 14 seats with it. The CWC which was attended by INPT president Bijoy Harangkhawl, veteran tribal leader Shyamacharan Tripura and party? general secretary Rabindra Debbarma, has resolved that in case Congress declines to share all the 20 ST reserved...

DIBRUGARH, Dec 1: Generally ?Vinegar? Joe Stilwell must be grinding his teeth wherever he is. For the urgency with which his forces built the road later named after him is today caught in the quagmire of international politics and policy differences. At the end of the two-day deliberations on the problems and prospects of re-opening the Stilwell Road here on Saturday the matter continues to be as complex as it was two days ago whether to expedite the process of re-opening the road at all and if yes how to go about it. A local tea planter, Manoj Jalan, who is involved in the matter, today said...

GUWAHATI, Dec 1 ? The meeting of the State Cabinet sub-committee on Bodo affairs today decided to adopt a give-and-take policy on the matter of including additional villages in the proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), reports PTI. The committee which met here tonight under the chairmanship of Health Minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman decided that both the government and the Bodoland Liberation Tiger (BLT) should adopt a give-and-take policy and mutual understanding if the BTC boundary problem was to be solved. The BLT, now on ceasefire with the government, has demanded 93 additional...