GUWAHATI, July 1 ? The police forces of Assam and West Bengal have decided to improve coordination to check the activities of the militants belonging to the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO). Talking to The Assam Tribune, the Inspector General of Police (Law and Order), Sri Sibabrata Kakati said that he recently had a meeting with his West Bengal counterpart and decided to have frequent interaction and sharing of intelligence. He said that regular meetings will also be held in the DIG and Superintendent of Police level.

Sri Kakati said that...

NEW DELHI, July 1 ? While reiterating its commitment for creation of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), the Assam government is likely to propose the enactment of a separate provision in the Constitution on the lines of the Sixth Schedule for the creation of the new council. The Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, who is here to attend a meeting on the Bodo tangle with the Deputy Prime Minister, L K Advani, told this newspaper here today. The meeting itself was postponed to a later date because of the political developments in the NDA government. Gogoi who arrived here last evening to attend what is...

SHILLONG, July 1 ? All is not well in the Dr Khonglam-led coalition Ministry in Meghalaya. Deputy Chief Minister DD Lapang, who looks after Planning and Finance Minister AH Scott Lyngdoh today lashed out at ministerial colleagues for submitting scheme for approval at the fag- end of the year unwittingly exposing the inner contradictions in the government. Their retorts against allies in the Government came in the course of replies to an innocuous-starred question pertaining to Education Department during the on-going re-assembled Budget session of the Meghalaya Assembly this morning.

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GUWAHATI, July 1 : The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has criticized the State Government for inviting Indian oil giants to explore oil in the State. A report published in The Freedom, newsletter of the militant outfit, said the ?puppet Government? has encouraged the oil giants to exploit the State. During the last several decades the Indian oil companies have been exploiting the State and hence the Chief Minister should not sell out the property of the State just to satisfy the masters of Delhi, the report said. In another report the leadership has rejected the safe-passage granted by...

DIMAPUR, July 2 ? Elizabeth Belho of the 66 Nagaland Girls (I) Coy NCC, Kohima, has become the first Naga lady paratrooper. Indian Air Force (Paratrooper Training School, Agra) has awarded her a certificate to this effect. Elizabeth has successfully completed a month-long Advanced Mountaineering Course from the Darjeeling based Himalayan Mountaineering Institute. Securing the ?All Round First Rope? 2nd position in the cross-country on successful completion of training of rock climbing, glacier training (snow craft), she was also awarded the ?Advance badge,? according to the NCC sources. She...