AIZAWL, March 16 ? Mizoram government has no intention to create a separate autonomous district council for the Brus/Reangs by carving out some parts of the State, Home Minister Tawnluia told the State Assembly here Friday, reports PTI. In a written reply to questions from Zakhu Hlychho of the Congress and J Lalthangliana of the Mizoram People?s Conference, Tawnluia said that delegation of the State governemnt and the Brus National Liberation Front (BNLF) had held four rounds of talks and would continue to have dialogue to reach a solution to the Bru problem. He informed the State...

AIZAWL, March 14 ? Mizoram government and the Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) might soon sign a memorandum of settlement to end the four-year old Bru insurgency in the State and expedite repatriation of Brus from neighbouring Tripura. Government officials, on the condition of anonymity, told PTI recently that the State government had drafted a memorandum of settlement which would be discussed in the fourth round of talks with the BNLF in the later part of this month or early March. They, however, refused to divulge the terms and conditions of the draft agreement. The officials felt that...

AGARTALA, March 15 : Tripura Rajya Gana Mukti Parishad (GMP) the tribal wing of the ruling CPM, is now preparing to stage a comeback. The GMP, once the key players in making the tribal-dominated hills of Tripura a strong red bastion, was facing unprecedented terror campaign letloose by NLFT militants against it, allegedly 47 the behest of Indigenous Peoples Front (now Indigenous nationalist Party of Tripura). During the last one year the GMP lost 44 senior leaders as the NLFT militants resorted to selective killings. Several hundreds had to flee from their villages and as the IPFT, already...

New Delhi, March 16: In a major success, Delhi Police today claimed to have foiled a plot of Manipur militants to create disruptive activities in the National capital by arresting two of them from South Delhi. Intelligence agencies had warned Delhi Police in January this year of the presence of militants belonging to banned People's Liberation Army of Manipur including its self-styled Captain Khogbantabam Brojen Singh. Sources here said Brojen hails from Khongman Zone 2 East. The Special cell of Delhi Police, entrusted with all militant related activities, started working on the tip-off and...

NEW DELHI, March 14 ? A proposal is under consideration to declare the North-east as a free trade zone, highly-placed official sources disclosed today. The sources further said that the move has been initiated in order to give a boost to the industrial sector and to encourage the young entrepreneurs to set up industries in the region. Despite immense potential for industries, no pragmatic steps has yet been initiated and hence several organisations have been demanding declaration of the region as a free trade zone, they added. In this context, the sources expressed the view that if the...