Politics / Assam

AGARTALA, June 7? BSF has taken steps in Tripura-Cachar-Mizoram (TCM) sector along the Indo-Bangla Border in view of the heightened tension at the LoC in Kashmir, senior official of the para-military force said here, reports PTI. The border security have already tightened vigil along the Indo-Bangla border to check intrusion bids by militants and trans-border crimes, Inspector General of BSF, TCM, M C Parmar said Wednesday. Stress would be laid on effective intelligence net-working, he said, but did not divulge details on grounds of security. Besides, a high-level delegation of the Union Home...

GUWAHATI, June 7 ? The Chief Minister Sri Tarun Gogoi, today inducted 20 new faces in his one-year-old council of ministers and dropped a Minister of State taking the size of the ministry to a 36-member one. In the process the Chief Minister elevated Minister of State (Independent Charge), Anjan Dutta and Minister of State Smt Rupam Kurmi to the cabinet rank while Minister of State, Pradyut Bordoloi was given Independent charge. Among the 20 new faces who were inducted today, five were made Cabinet Ministers, four Ministers of State with Independent charge and 11 Ministers of State. There are...

DIBRUGARH, June 7 ? Following the personal intervention by Assam Minister Pradyut Bordoloi, a plot of land measuring about 119 bighas is all set to be handed back to the State by the Arunachal Pradesh administration. The SDO (Civil), Margherita, Ratul Chandra Duarah told The Assam Tribune that the land was being used by the erstwhile North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) to house educational institutions of the Tirap Frontier Tract soon after the earthquake of 1950. At that time, the land belonged to the Namdang Tea Company and was requisitioned by the assistant political officer of the Tirap...

GUWAHATI, June 7 ? The United Bodo Nationalist Liberation Front (UBNLF) has called for ?freedom? of the Bodo Indo-Mongoloid people in the N-E region and submitted a memorandum on this to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, reports PTI. Speaking as president of UBNLF, Kanakeswar Narzary, who is on oath under the Constitution as Bodoland Executive Council chief, Thursday said, ?UNBLF believes in the principles of non-violence to acquire freedom in the N-E region as India acquired freedom from the Britishers.? In a signed statement, Narzary said an emissary of ths Front submitted a memorandum to...

GUWAHATI, June 6 ? Blame is now on the self-styled C-in-C of the prescribed ULFA, Paresh Barua, for the ?lost generation? in the State. A large number of families of ULFA members including those of top leaders like Sashadhar Choudhury and Pranati Deka, today filed cases against the ULFA C-in-C before Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) accusing him of forcing their wards to lead an abnormal life in ULFA ranks. Sri Chandra Kanta Deka, father of ULFA leader Pranati Deka and father-in-law of the outfit?s ?finance secretary? Chitrabon Hazarika, led the group of representatives from ULFA members...

GUWAHATI, June 6? While political expediency on the part of majority of our politicians on the issue of eviction of encroachers from forest land has been vitiating the social atmosphere here, the Supreme Court of India and the Union Environment and Forest Ministry, with the prudence to save the environment and maintain the ecological balance for posterity, have adopted a firm stand against the encroachers. The Supreme Court of India (SC) in its order in connection with the Interlocuttory Application (IA) Numbers 703 and 502, directed the Chief Secretaries of the States of Orissa, West Bengal...

GOLAGHAT, June 6 ? The British government had declared large areas of Golaghat, Jorhat, Sivasagar and Karbi Anglong districts of the border areas of Assam-Nagaland as reserve forest areas according to the Bengal Forest Act. But now large areas of forest lands have been occupied by the encroachers, among them ? suspected foreign national of Bangladesh, and Nagas and they have turned them into villages. The suspected foreign nationals of Bangladeshi origin have felled trees and cleared and for cultivation, the local people have alleged. Duo to apathy of the forest department the world-famous...

GUWAHATI, June 5 ? The All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU) has threatened to revive its original demand for creation of separate of Bodoland if the Central and the State Governments fail to show positive attitude towards solving the Bodo problem. Talking to The Assam Tribune, the ABSU president Rabi Ram Narzary said that the Bodo organisations would be forced to launch a mass movement if the Central and the State Governments fail to take immediate steps for the solution of the problem. The Bodo people have reasons to doubt the sincerity and honesty of the Government, he added.

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GUWAHATI, June 2 ? The indigenous people of Tripura have been totally outnumbered by outsiders and if unabated infiltration is allowed to continue, Assam will face the same fate in the years to come, said the leaders of the Tripura Students? Federation (TSF). Talking to newsmen here today, Sri Prasanta Deb Barma and Sri Subodh Deb Barma, the president and vice-president respectively of the TSF, said that as per the last census, Tripuras? population was 37 lakh, out of which only eight lakh were indigenous people. They said that the indigenous people of Tripura have lost their political and...

GUWAHATI, June 1? In continuing with its eviction drive, the State Forest Department demolished 229 houses in the South Kalapahar Reserve Forest (RF) area of the city today and freed 37 hectares of land from encroachment. Yesterday, 204 houses were demolished in the same RF area and a land area of 25 hectares was freed from encroachment by the Department. The RF has a total land area of 70 hectares. The Department used one elephant and two bulldozers yesterday and three elephants and three bulldozers today. The eviction party was divided into three teams on both the days.

According to Forest...