IMPHAL, Dec 21?The National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isasc Muivah) extending moral support to ULFA and other revolutionary organisations which have come under heavy attack from the Bhutanese army in Bhutan for the past few days, has imposed a 24 hour bandh in all Naga areas in the North east.

The bandh began at of 6 am on Sunday 21 and will conclude at 6 am the following day, according to sources here. The outfit which is currently continuing peace talk with the Government of India since August 1997 also stated that they fully endorse the 48 hour bandh called by ULFA, NDFB and KLO.

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AGARTALA, Dec 21? In an attempt to enable the students of the state to compete in national level, Tripura government has decided to introduce a new education policy online with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). The new education policy, announced by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar after the cabinet approval on December 18 last, would come into force from 2005 at primary, secondary and higher secondary levels. The new education policy came in the wake of the recommendations made by first Education Commission headed by Prof Basudeb Burman, former Vice Chancellor of Kalyani University...

ITANAGAR, Dec 21? The tiny state of Arunachal Pradesh witnessed a political upheaval in 2003 that saw ruling Congress suffering a split leading to the fall of Mukut Mithi government and giving BJP the first taste of power in a north- eastern state under the leaderdship of veteran Gegong Apang, who came out of political wilderness.

Though discontent among Congress MLAs surfaced in the middle of the year, it thickened to change the political scenerio when a sizeable number of ministers and MLAs set up a camp at local hotel Bomdila on September 27. Of the total 58 Congress MLAs, including two...

GOALPARA, Dec 20?After three month?s respite from the havoc caused by rampaging elephants, people of some parts of the district are once again compelled to spend sleepless nights anticipating depredation by wild elephants. Wild elephants pose threat to the population of a large part of the constituencies of Goalpara East, Goalpara West and Dudhnoi every year, killing people, damaging crops and vegetables, destroying houses and other belongings. Knowledgeable circles feel that denudation of forest cover in Goalpara district and more particularly in adjoining Meghalaya compels the pachyderms to...

GUWAHATI, Dec 20 ? Six of the Indian militants captured by the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) in its operation to dislodge the Indian militants? camps since December 15 were handed over to the State police at Tamulpur, this evening, police sources said. The militants include ULFA publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary and two others from the ULFA and three from the NDFB.

The RBA has captured a good number of militants belonging to the ULFA, NDFB and KLO in its drive against them. Besides Mithinga Daimary, the captured militants include ULFA armed wing leaders Bening Rabha and Robin Neog and NDFB...