Tezpur/Guwahati, Dec. 27: The Ulfa and the NDFB reeled under further setbacks today with 51 militants captured by the Royal Bhutan Army being handed over to the police in Nalbari and Darrang districts. There were reports that all Ulfa, KLO, and NDFB camps in Bhutan have been razed to the ground.

Of the 51 rebels, 32 were handed over at Tamulpur in Nalbari district and the remaining 19 at Mangaldoi in Darrang district. Sources said another batch of nearly 30 Ulfa and NDFB rebels is likely to handed over by the RBA tomorrow.

In Mangaldoi, the army also handed over 18 AK-56 rifles with bayonets...

NEW DELHI, Dec 27?The Dima Halam Daogah (DHD) has appealed to all insurgent outfits of the North east to come forward for negotiations. DHD chief Joel Garlusa has also made an appeal to the Government of India to go for a political settlement of issues with militants through political dialogue.

The DHD, which has a ceasefire pact with the Centre, is planning to submit its list of political demands to the Government of India. The outfit is demanding a separate state of ?Dimaraji?.

A delegation of DHD, led by Garlusa, is currently in the capital to hold talks for extension of the ceasefire...

TEZPUR, Dec 27 ? Four ULFA members including the founder of the outfit Bhimkanta Buragohain were today handed over to the State police by the army authorities here. According to official sources the ULFA men besides Bhimkanta Buragohain (78) popularly known as Mama are Captain Dr Amarjit Gogoi, Bolin Das and the 66-year-old political advisor to Mama, Robin Handique.

Sources talking to The Assam Tribune disclosed that the Army also handed over cash amount of Rs 2,6,588 (Indian currency) along with three AK-56 rifles, two pistols, two handsets, one satellite phone, one satellite phone set, one...

AGARTALA, Dec 27 ? Boosted by Bhutan?s flush out campaign against the Indian militants from its soil Tripura Assembly also unanimously appealed Bangladesh to follow suit. A resolution has been passed in the Tripura House that was deliberating on a Private Member?s resolution on Friday last. The resolution appeals New Delhi to persuade Dhaka to chase out the Indian militants who are presently holed up in that country. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar informed the House that there were at least 50 camps of the Tripura militants in the neighbouring country but at the same he clarified that never the...

Kohima, Dec. 26: The proposed Kohima airport project has run into a hurdle with the feasibility report submitted to the ministry of civil aviation stating it is financially not viable. Kohima is one of the few state capitals that do not have air links with the rest of the country.

Annoyed by the verdict in the feasibility report, chief minister Neiphiu Rio said: ?If we look at it from this point of view, then any airport in the Northeast is not financially viable. But we have to come up with it.?

Rio met civil aviation minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy during his visit to New Delhi early this week...