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Nagaon, May 3: The Kuki National Assembly (KNA) today made it clear that a separate regional council for Kukis was the only way to end the ethnic feud in Karbi Anglong district. In a memorandum faxed to the Scheduled Area and Schedule Tribes Commissioner Dilip Sing Bhuira, the apex body of the Kuki tribe urged the commission to form a separate regional council under the Sixth Schedule for the 40,000 Kukis living in Singhasan Hills. The council should be modelled on the Pawi-Lakher Autonomous Council in the Lushai hills of Mizoram, it added.

“It is imperative for the commission to come to our...

Silchar, May 3: Army and police teams today fanned out into the jungles along Cachar district’s border with Meghalaya to look for members of a fledgling militant group that yesterday ambushed a Gorkha Rifles patrol party near Damcherra railway station. A member of the Pnar Liberation Army was killed and a soldier sustained injuries during the skirmish. The injured soldier was airlifted to the command hospital of the army’s Third Corps at Rangapahar, near Dimapur in Nagaland.

Sources at the 57 Mountain Division base at Masimpur, a few km from Silchar, said the militant group had set up camps...

New Delhi, May 3: Taking a cue from the home ministry, the department for Development of North Eastern Region (Doner) has decided to publish its own booklet that will have news related to the department’s activities. To be named Doner Newsline, it will be a quarterly magazine that is likely to be sent all over the country to government departments, educational institutions, NGOs and publishing houses.

Doner secretary Reva Nayyar said the rationale behind such an initiative was to disseminate information on the Northeast and the measures taken by the department for development of the region.

“W...

Naharlagun, May 3: The Chakma-Hajong issue, lack of enthusiasm among the voters and occasional heavy downpour have marred electioneering in Arunachal Pradesh. The state, with a total electorate of 6,83,480, will go to poll for its two seats on Wednesday. Six candidates are in fray for the Arunachal East constituency. However, the main fight is between Tapir Gao of the BJP and Wancha Rajkumar of the Congress, who is backed by the Arunachal Congress (AC), according to the seat-sharing arrangements between the Congress and the Arunachal Congress.

The East constituency has 27 Legislative Assembly...

DIMAPUR, May 3 – Former Prime Minister and JD(S) president HD Deve Gowda on Sunday said the United Front Government under him was the first regime at the Centre to make serious efforts to remove regional imbalances and solve the insurgency problem in the North East.

“I have been the only Prime Minister who visited the region for seven consecutive days and announced the first economic development package to remove the infrastructure bottlenecks in the North East,” Deve Gowda told PTI here. The former Prime Minister said he was aware of the long-felt demands and needs of the people of the...