NEW DELHI, Dec 1: Describing the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka as the ?nerve centre? of ISI activities, a government publication has claimed that Pakistani intelligence officials have long been engaged in networking with and coordinating activities of north-eastern insurgent groups and Islamic extremists elements in Bangladesh, reports PTI. Besides making ?extensive inroads? into Bangladeshi organisations like Jamaat-e-Islami, Harkat-ul-Jehad al-Islami and several other ?anti-Awami League organisations?, the book says ISI operatives, ?in association with Directorate General of Forces...

IMPHAL, Dec 1: Security and police forces would be deployed at all vulnerable areas both in towns and rural areas of Manipur following stepped-up activities by unlawful organisations, official sources said on Sunday, reports PTI. The decision was taken at a high-level security meeting, presided over by Chief MInister Okram Ibobi Singh, which reviewed the law-and-order situation in the state, the sources said. The meeting, held on Saturday, and attended by high civil and security officials, also discussed the random checking of passers-by at many suspected places both in the hills and...

KOHIMA, Dec 1: Members of the Delimitation Commission of Nagaland have suggested that the proposed readjustment of constituencies boundaries be taken up only after the February Assembly polls as most of the intending candidates along with their supporters have already begun their compaign, reports PTI. Any efforts at delimitation now might create serious law and order problems in the state, the associate members said in their memorandum to the Commission. They along with members of the state cabinet felt that the Commission should take into consideration the tribal sensitivity and hill and...

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...