GUWAHATI, June 17 ? The ULFA today warned those responsible for ?instigating? the relatives of its members to move the Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) against the outfit?s commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah. In the latest edition of its mouthpiece Freedom, e-mailed to a section of the media here, the outfit warned ?the person or the group of persons? which was instigating the kin of the ULFA members to appeal to the AHRC that they were forced to join the outfit. Recently about 200 relatives of senior ULFA leaders and cadres had complained to the Assam Human Rights Commission that Paresh...

Imphal, June 17: In a new shake up, the MSCP which is in the midst of a controversy over its move to merge with the Congress has elected Education (U) Minister and MLA from Wangkhei AC Y Erabot as the leader of the party legislature wing succeeding PHED Minister K Govindas. The election of Erabot was carried out during a joint sitting of the MSCP Central Executive Committee and Legislature Party today. The meeting was presided by party vice president L Amujao and held at the Babupara quarter of MSCP president and MP Th Chaoba at around 7 am today. The post remained vacant after Govindas...

Imphal, June 17: The report in The Imphal Free Press about the selection of four tribes of Manipur in the new list of 43 tribes to be recognized as Scheduled Tribes under the Scheduled Tribe Order, 1950, has met with mixed response from different parties. An organization called the Kuki Tribes Recognition Demand Committee, while welcoming the inclusion of "Any Kuki Tribe" into the four selected for inclusion in the ST list, strongly objected to the list of tribes in the IFP which are reportedly annoyed with their non inclusion in the ST list as independent tribes. A memorandum by the...

Imphal, June 16: An unidentified disease is on the prowl in Moreh Township, and has already claimed the life of one Manipur police personnel posted at the Moreh police station. Speaking to IFP over the telephone, officials at the Moreh police station confirmed that several people have fallen sick due to the disease all over Moreh town in the last three days or so, but doctors at the Moreh community health centre have had no success in diagnosing it. While the Moreh CHC has no blood testing facility, the various private clinics at Moreh that do have such facilities have not been able to...

Imphal, June 16: MSCP MLA from Wangkhei Assembly constituency and former Congress leader Y Erabot may replace K Govindas as the legislature wing leader of the party, disclosed a reliable source from within the MSCP today. In another interesting development, difference of opinion has reportedly surfaced between the MSCP legislature group and the MSCP Central Executive Committee (CEC) over the proposal to merge en-bloc with the Congress. The source said a sizeable group of the MSCP members have expressed their opinion the merger proposal with the Congress was taken hastily with some even...