GUWAHATI, July 27: The State Government is in favour of continuing with the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act. This was disclosed by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in response to a question by Prafulla Kumar Mahanta in the State Assembly today. Gogoi said that though the implementation of different clauses of the Assam Accord was not specifically earmarked for the Central and State Governments, Clauses 5 and 6 are under the purview of both the Centre and the State. He also said that Clauses 7, 8 and 9 of the Accord are under the purview of the Centre, while, Clauses 10,11 and 12...

AGARTALA, July 26: Though Tripura was reconnected via road links with Bangladesh after a gap of 20 days, water from the river Bhairab in the neighbouring country

ontinued to enter Tripura inundating parts of this capital town, reports PTI.

Over 10,000 people of 2,500 families were rendered homeless as parts of Agartala were submerged by overflowing waters from Bangladesh, official sources said today.

Subdivisional magistrate of Agartala, Shambu Nama, said water from swolen Bhairab was entering villages close to the international border and submerged at least 30 villages.

Affected people...

DARANGAMELA, July 26? The water tax being paid to the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGB) by the Indian people of Indo-Bhutan bordering villages for the use of waters flowing down from the Bhutan hills through different rivers is set to be increased by 25 per cent from next year. The poor families of the bordering villages will be the hardest hit as they have no other alternative source of water.

?Though the Royal Government of Bhutan is forcing the Indian people to pay such illegal tax, the Indian Government has taken no steps against the foreign country,? alleged the local MLA of Tamulpur LAC...

GUWAHATI, July 26 ? As many as 1597 persons including more than eight hundred militants were killed in the State in the last three years. This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Home, Rockybul Hussain, in reply to a question by Jagadish Bhuyan (AGP) in the State Assembly today. The Minister said that during the period from June, 2001 to June this year, 857 persons were killed by police and security forces, while, 713 persons were killed by insurgents and 27 were killed by dacoits. During this period, 3818 cases of killing, 4499 cases of kidnapping, 2490 cases of rape, 14890 cases of...

NEW DELHI, July 26 ? While the Congress-ruled State Government showed extra alertness over Ministry of Home Affairs? (MHA) statement on presence of 50 lakh illegal immigrants, since withdrawn, an interim report pertaining to implementation of Assam Accord is gathering dust, as Assam Government is yet to finalise its stand on the definition of Assamese people.

Interestingly like its statement on estimates of illegal Bangladeshi migrants, this revelation too came from the Ministry of Home Affairs. In a statement tabled in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Home Affairs, S. Reghupathy in reply...