TURA, May 27? The Meghalaya Government is to seek the help of church leaders of Garo Hills to bring the banned ANVC to the negotiation table. Home Minister Lotsing A Sangma will shortly be meeting members of the A?chik Baptist Dalgipa Krima (ABDK), the powerful church body in Garo Hills, leaders of the Roman Catholic Demonstration and senior citizens of Tura to discuss ways in bringing the ANVC to the negotiating table. This was revealed by Sangma during his press conference at Rikman Continental hotel recently. Briefing members of the media the Home Minister said that the government was...

TURA, May 27 ? The NCP-led Executive Committee (EC) headed by Edmund K Sangma in the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) was dealt a severe blow when two of its new members withdrew support on the grounds that the EC was playing dirty politics by denying the new MDC from Kharkutta his rights as a member. The two MDCs, Hedrick A Sangma of Siju constituency in South Garo Hills and Lithindro D Sangma, withdrew their support alleging that the EC had deliberately and wrongfully distributed the work orders of the GHADC?s Rural Development Scheme allotted to the Kharkutta GHADC...

GUWAHATI, May 27 ? The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), an autonomous institution of the University Grants Commission, accredited three universities of the north-eastern region on May 15. These are Dibrugarh University, Tripura University and Arunachal University, a PIB release today said. Dibrugarh and Arunachal universities have been graded ?B? under the new grading pattern and Tripura University has been conferred with a C+ grading. With this, NAAC has so far completed the assessment and accreditation of 261 institutions.

IMPHAL, May 27 ? At least 10 Assam Rifles jawans were killed and five others seriously injured in an ambush by suspected Manipur insurgents at Gangsad area, about 40 km north-east of here today, official sources said, reports PTI. The armed insurgents attacked the Assam Rifles convoy belonging to 25th battalion while the security personnel were returning to Imphal, the sources said. Reinforcements were rushed to the spot and a combing operation launched. The insurgents, however, escaped through the jungles and hills, the sources said.

GUWAHATI, May 27? Militant outfit National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) received a major blow as nine of its members were killed in an encounter with security forces in the Mahamaya Reserve Forest in Dhubri district in the early hours today. Police sources said here that acting on specific information received by the police, troops of the Red Horns Division of the Army ambushed a group of 10 NDFB militants near Bonshijhora village in the Mahamaya Reserve Forest area around 5 a m today. The militants tried to escape by firing at the troops and by lobbing grenades, but nine militants were...