Dimapur, Jan. 16: The Zeliangrong Baudi, the apex association of the Zeliangrong community, yesterday threw its weight behind the Peren District Co-ordination and Facilitating Committee?s proposal to establish the district headquarters of Peren at a new site, called New Peren.

The Zeliangrong Baudi?s decision is likely to trigger a severe controversy because the residents of Peren town this week staged a demonstration demanding setting up of the district headquarters within the township. They said any move to establish the headquarters elsewhere would be tantamount to betraying the residents...

Agartala, Jan. 15: Bangladesh Rifles jawans have directed militant commanders to abandon their bases and take shelter in rented houses in residential areas. Reports from across the border said over the past month, militants have deserted their camps in Sylhet, Maulvi Bazar and Habiganj districts of Bangladesh, bordering North Tripura, Dhalai district and Khowai and Sadar (north) subdivisions of West Tripura district.

Official sources from North Tripura said a camp at Kukijhuri in Sylhet district adjacent to Kumarghat in North Tripura had been burnt down after the militants left.

?The camp...

Imphal, Jan. 15: The banned United National Liberation Front (UNLF) of Manipur has decided to put one of its members in front of a firing squad tomorrow for molesting a teenaged girl and assaulting her two younger brothers.

The UNLF, whose vigilantism ensures it remains in the headlines, today issued a statement declaring Maibam Khuman Ngamba guilty of tarnishing the organisation?s name and eroding the people?s faith in the ?revolutionary movement?.

The chairman of the outfit?s ?military affairs committee?, Sana Yaima, said a three-member firing squad would carry out the execution at 4 pm...

Imphal, Jan. 15: He has been obsessed with numbers for as long as he can remember. And this abiding passion has taken him places, from the violence-scarred ambience of Manipur to the hallowed portals of Cambridge?s Trinity College and then to Sheffield University as a lecturer.

At 33, Manoharmayum Raju Sharma is a role model not just for aspiring mathematicians, but for every Manipur youth trying to make a mark in any profession.

Coming home for a vacation recently, Raju was shocked to see that life is still tough in Manipur. Security personnel raided his residence without warning on January 7...

Silchar, Jan. 15: Negotiators trying to secure the release of three persons taken hostage by the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) in south Assam nine days ago have convinced the outfit to scale down its demand for Rs 10 lakh by half.

Sources said a seven-member team from Jirighat town, located on the Cachar-Manipur border, negotiated with representatives of the NSCN (K) for four hours yesterday.

A 22-member group went to a hideout of the militant group on Saturday to bring back the hostages, but returned empty-handed. The three captives ? Sudhir Sarkar, 86, Aloke Dhar, 25, and...