DIMAPUR, July 4 ? The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN ?IM) held the swearing-in ceremony of the new council of Kilonsers (Ministers)of its Government of the People?s Republic of Nagalim (GPRN) with the induction of six Kilonsers (Cabinet Ministers), 25 Deputy Kilonsers (State Ministers), and about 20 tatars (MPs) at Tangkhul Church, Wungram colony in the Purana bazaar area here on Monday evening. The new 'government' was installed about a year after the earlier government was dissolved following the declaration of emergency after which the seven member Steering Committee headed by...

GUWAHATI, July 4? Taking advantage of the porous Indo-Bangla border, Bangladesh based organisation Jamat-E-Islami is trying to extend help to organisations like Muslim United Liberation Front of Assam (MULTA), security sources said here. Sources said that the gameplan of the Jamat-E-Islami came to light after the arrest of one MULTA activist Sahadat Hussain in Dhubri district. Sahadat, who hails from Chandpur district of Bangladesh, was sent to Jamat-E-Islami last year to spread the network of the organisation in Assam through the Islamic militant outfits active in Assam. He was given guidance...

NEW DELHI, July 4? An expert committee comprising officials of both Union and Assam Government would now draft the proposals for safeguard of the non-Bodos to pave the way for amendment of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution leading to creation of a Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). But hurdles for smooth resolution of the Bodo tangle still remained, with Assam Government springing a new surprise by demanding inclusion of Schedule Tribe status for Koch Rajbongshi and Adivasi community living within the Bodoland Autonomous Council (BAC). Their demand for inclusion in the Schedule Tribe...

GUWAHATI, July 4 ? The State Government today constituted a high power committee to look into the affairs of Assam Polyester Cooperative Society Ltd (APOL) with Sri RC Barua, promoter-director of the APOL as the chairman. The committee, which has Sri D Sarma, Zonal Joint Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Assam and Sri MK Das, General Manager, AIDC, on it as members will ascertain the actual position of assets and liabilities as on June 1, 2002; recommend organisational, administrative and financial measures to make it organisationally capable of being run as an efficient commercial unit and...

SHILLONG, July 4?Stung by the charges of extortion levelled by the Meghalaya Government, the Khasi Students? Union (KSU) and the Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM) today hit back at Chief Minister Dr F A Khonglam and Deputy Chief Minister accusing them of amassing assets and properties worth crores of rupees. KSU president Samuel Jyrwa and KHNAM president Paul Lyngdoh strongly refuted the charges terming it as ?a pack of lies and innuendos?. They demanded ?the Government must substantiate the allegations. The charges are all baseless and without any grain of truth.?

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