GOLAGHAT, June 23? The four reserve forests within Golaghat district are Diphu reserve forest, South Numbor, Rengma and Doyang which are situated on the Nagaland border. In 1963, Nagaland become the 16th State of India. In 1972, the KV Sundaram Commission had submitted its recommendations regarding the identification of the border between Assam and Nagaland. But the Nagaland government ? refused to accept the recommendations of the Sundoram Commission. As a result, the boundaries of Assam-Nagaland remained unsettled till now.

Taking this advantage, the Nagaland encroached large areas of the...

AIZAWL, June 24? Former soldiers in Mizoram were up in arms over the state excise department?s refusal to accept their contention that they should be allowed to get liquor quota from military canteens even after imposition of prohibition in the State. Leaders of the Mizoram Ex-servicemen League said that the former Indian soldiers were covered by the Army Act and should be allowed their monthly quota of liquor even as the state excise department officials said that the Mizoram Liquor Prohibition Act exempted only the army and para-military forces. State Excise Minister K Vanlalauva said 33 ex...

DIMAPUR, June 24 ? Accusing Nagaland Chief Minister SC Jamir of being opposed to a final solution to the vexed Indo-Naga political issue the steering committee of the NSCN-IM has said his vehement opposition to the first ceasefire declaration in 1964 itself has proven his efforts to crush the Nagas and their rights. ?Jamir has ignored the facts of the Naga and their proud history,? the NSCN said and charged him of attempting to ?hijack the issue of the Naga nation? at a time when the Nagas ?are trying to find a peaceful and final solution to the Naga issue, the NSCN said adding ?but Jamir is...

GUWAHATI, June 24 ? Five persons were killed and seven others critically injured when suspected Dima Halong Daogah (DHD) militants ambushed a party of ONGC and CISF personnel near Dhansiri railway station in Karbi Anglong district around 3.30 pm today, police sources here said. A convoy of seven vehicles carrying personnel of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was returning from Dhansiri area to Diphu town when the DHD militants opened indiscriminate fire on the party. Engineer RC Kakati, Joyram Timung, an employee and driver CR Hanse of ONGC...

Imphal, June 24: For the moment Chief Minister O Ibobi and his men can rest in peace as the 'post merger crisis' that had threatened to rock the boat of the Secular Progressive Front Government has blown over with the Steering Committee of the Front accepting the merger of the 11 MLAs with the Congress after a marathon meeting today. The Steering Committee meeting started at 3 pm and stretched on till 7.30 in the evening and was presided by MSCP president and co-chairman of the Steering Committee Th Chaoba. Along with granting cognizance to the merger of the 11 MLAs the meeting resolved to...