DIPHU, March 5: Fifteen members of the 29-member Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) today did not participate in the voting conducted through secret ballots on the motion of confidence moved by the chief executive member, Mojari Hanse while 13 other members were declared to have casted their votes for the motion. The chairman of the council, Daniel Teron later adjourned the House amid din after announcing that the CEM Mojari Hanse had won the motion of confidence by a margin of 13-0 much to the chargin of the 15 protesting members led by the former CEM, Jotson Bey. The group of 15...

NEW DELHI, March 5: The Centre is under pressure of the insurgency affected States of the Northeast to declare a unilateral ceasefire with all the underground outfits operating in the region on the line of the peace initiatives taken in Jammu and Kashmir. Under increasing pressure of the Northeastern Chief Ministers to declare ceasefire with all the insurgent outfits a reluctant Centre may finally concede. With the issue of extension of the ceasefire with the Naga outfit again assuming centre stage, the Chief Ministers of Assam Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh have prevailed upon the Prime...

NEW DELHI, March 5: Firmly opposing the extension of the three-year-long ceasefire between the Centre and the NSCN(IM), Manipur Chief Minister Radhabinod Koijam today demanded comprehensive ceasefire with all the outfits in the region to make the peace process "more purposeful", reports PTI. "Why not all the outfits are covered? But if you want to confine your talks with National Socialist Council of Nagaland (IM) alone at any cost it should not be extended to the Naga inhabited territories of Manipur," Koijam told reporters. Dismissing reports which suggested that Koijam and Mahanta's...

GUWAHATI, March 6: The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) on Tuesday denied that its chief Paresh Baruah was attacked by gunmen in Dhaka on Thursday. Reports to that effect were the 'Indian government's propaganda', it said. In a statement, exclusively e-mailed to TheNewspaperToday, ULFA foreign secretary Sasha Choudhury, said: "These reports are all rubbish. He (Paresh Baruah) is fine with his comrades-in-arms at the general headquarters." Choudhury added: "India is only trying to locate him with these very propaganda traps. They want his voice over telephone to pin point his...

Kolkata, March 6: United Liberation Front of Asom commander-in-chief Paresh Barua escaped yet another bid on his life on Thursday evening when a group of six assailants attacked his vehicle in Dhaka. Barua lost his right-hand man in Bangladesh, Hossain Rumy, in the attack. Rumy was the ULFA frontman in Bangladesh, into whose bank account all ULFA funds have been deposited so far. A top Intelligence Bureau official told TheNewspaperToday that the attack was carried out mainly by surrendered ULFA cadres and some hired assailants from Bangladesh, guided by Indian security personnel. According to...