NEW DELHI, Dec 29: The Royal Government of Bhutan is still undecided about handing over the bodies of the militants who were killed in operations in the country. Highly placed sources said that they are still continuing with the operations, which are spread out in remote areas in districts spread all over the country. The issue of handing over the bodies of the slain militants is yet to be worked out, sources said. The Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) is also yet to come out with the death toll among the militants. Initial reports pouring in from the country suggest that at least 70 militants were...

GUWAHATI, Dec 29: Violent inter-tribes conflicts confined to the two hill districts and tribal groups demand for right to determine their fate for themselves have sowed the seed for a new band of complex tribal politics in the State in the year gone by. The early part of the year was marred by violent clashes between majority Dimasa and minority Hmar tribes in North Cachar Hills district which witnessed mindless killings of members of both the tribes at the hands of Hmar and Dimasa militants as well as mob frenzy hitherto uncharacteristic in the tribal society in the State.

Scores of lives...

NEW DELHI, Dec 29: Buoyed by Bhutan?s operation against Indian insurgents, India will seek to build pressure on Bangladesh for a similar action against the north-eastern insurgents? camps on its soil by raising the matter at a high-level meeting here next week, reports PTI. A list of 180 camps operating in Bangladesh and 85 prominent insurgents based there will be handed over to Dhaka during the five-day Director General-level meeting of BSF and Bangladesh Rifles being held here from January 6, official sources told PTI.

During the meeting, which will be attended by top officials of...

Agartala, Dec. 29: The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) successfully weathered some dissidents? bid to split the party in its state conference here even as it sprang a surprise by demanding 2,060 square miles of more areas within the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC). The tribal-based party created more organisational posts to accommodate the dissidents who had challenged the leadership of Bijay Kumar Hrangkhawal as president and Rabindra Debbarma as general secretary, sources within the INPT said.

Both Hrangkhawal and Debbarma managed to retain their...

Agartala, Dec. 29: The erection of barbed wire fence on Tripura?s long and porous border with Bangladesh has run into troubled waters over land acquisition and related problems. The 856-km international border in the state runs through 15 subdivisions. At many places, houses, schools and government offices have fallen outside the line marked for the fence.

The issue came up for discussion in the Assembly today with PCC president Birajit Sinha pointing out that resentment was running high at many places over the issue and people were contemplating launching an agitation to protest the...