DIBRUGARH, June 11 ? Troubled days are ahead for Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. Several ethnic organisations of the State today formed a joint action committee here to resist the ongoing eviction process, which the State Government has embarked upon, following a Supreme Court directive. The groups which would be constituents of the joint action committee include the Tribal Students? Federation, All Assam Moran Students? Union, All Assam Deuri Students? Union, All Tai Ahom Students? Union, Assam Sonowal Kachari Students? Union, Assam Tea Tribes Students? Association and the Tai Yuba Chatra Santha...

ITANAGAR, June 11 ? The Arunachal Pradesh Government has filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court seeking restraint on the evictions carried out by the Assam officials in various areas of the disputed portions of Assam-Arunachal border, reports PTI. Takam Sanjoy, Minister for Education and the spokesman of the Government in a statement on Monday said that more than 40 families have been affected in the wake of recent eviction carried out by the Assam Government officials. School buildings, transformers, water tanks, electricity facility and even houses of the teachers and villagers were not...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? The Police Reforms Committee has expressed the view that the most important requirement for reforms of the police force is improvement of the quality of manpower both as regards to the dealing of the police personnel with the public and their dedication to duty. The Committee headed by retired Director General of Assam Police N Changkakoty submitted its report to Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi yesterday. Talking to The Assam Tribune today, Sri Changkakoty said that the Committee studied functioning of the Police force from the Police station level to the highest level and...

Imphal, June 11: Vungkhulal Chongloi, 46, the Congress candidate from Kangpokpi constituency in the last Assembly elections, along with four others was picked up by unidentified persons, believed to be security personnel, from two different places in the Imphal area in the wee hours today. Chongloi and three of the other four, who are described as relatives of the victims of security excesses that occurred in the aftermath of the May 27 Leplen village ambush, had yesterday filed a case with the Manipur Human Rights Commission in connection with the disappearance of a youth recently arrested by...

Imphal, June 10: The underground People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, PREPAK has rejected the claim by the Zomi Revolutionary Army, ZRA, that the six PREPAK members slain in the June 1 encounter had opened fire first on the cadres of the ZRA and that they had been killed without any knowledge of their identities. The PREPAK, in a statement issued here, reiterated that the six slain cadres had been shot at close range, and their bodies bore evidence that they had been beaten up before being shot. It said the PREPAK’s version of events had been verified from a spot enquiry and from the...