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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NEW DELHI, July 4 ? The State Government today asked for additional forces for counter-insurgency operations in Assam, even as it claimed that the law-and-order situation in the State has seen a marked improvement. The internal security scenario in Assam was reviewed at a meeting between the Deputy Prime Minister Sri LK Advani and Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi here today.

At the meeting that was mainly convened to discuss the Bodo issue, the Chief Minister complained about the withdrawal of para-military forces from the State by the Centre. The situation is alarming in the light of the growing...

Imphal, July 03: The home secretary of the underground People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, PREPAK, Tourangbam Brojeshwor alias Nanao, 38, of Uripok Tourangbam Leikai, was nabbed by the Imphal west district police today. A police statement said the PREPAK leader was caught while coming out from the League of the Fourth World People Kangleipak Computer Centre at Keisamthong after preparing several demand letters addressed to various officials of the state government on the letterhead of the PREPAK's finance department. According to the statement, there were altogether ten demand letters...