GUWAHATI, Dec 5: Defence Minister George Fernanades today stated that Pakistani ISI in collusion with the banned ULFA was trying to fish in the opportunity provided by anti-Bihari violence in Assam. Talking to newsmen at the Army base in Narengi here, Fernandes said, ?Although it was not the ISI which stoked the fire of anti-Bihari attacks in Assam, it is definitely trying to fan the fire in collusion with the banned ULFA.?

Earlier, the Defence Minister visited victims of anti-Bihari violence in Tinsukia civil hospitals and in relief camps in Doom Dooma. He was also briefed by Brigadier A K...

AGARTALA, Dec 5 ? Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) which fought the last Assembly elections in February as a Congress ally, is now trying hard to forge alliance with the BJP. An INPT delegation led by party general secretary Rabindra Debbarma has already left for Delhi to meet Prime Minister AB Vajpayee and other senior BJP leaders. Though Debbarma and his party colleagues maintained that they were going to the capital to press for more powers to the Tripura ADC ? autonomous state under Article 244A, sources in the INPT, however, confirmed that the main agenda to be discussed in...

Aizawl, Dec. 5: Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga, who was sworn in for his second term in office yesterday, has said that his government will concentrate on the twin issues of development and peace. The chief ministerwas quite upbeat over the fact that his party had been given the people?s mandate again and said his government would continue the development work it had started.

Asked about the time limit he had set himself for completion of the development programmes, Zoramthanga said it would depend on the individual projects. ?Some of the projects could be completed by the end of this term...

NEW DELHI, Dec 5 ? The need for change in the recruitment policy of the Railway in order to avoid future clashes between States, was overwhelmingly endorsed by Members in the Lok Sabha, with Members from Bihar urging Union Railway Minister Nitish Kumar to bifurcate Katihar Division from North East Frontier Railway and include it in Hazipur Zone. The growth of regionalism, particularly in Assam, was perceived as a serious threat to the unity and integrity of the nation. ?We have to check the menace of provincial chauvinism and protect federalism, which has engulfed Assam,? remarked Basudev...

Imphal, December 04: The Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup in a press statement today contradicted the UNLF's statement issued in the local dailies on December 2. The Statement made a specific reference to the members of KYKL who left the organization and joined the UNLF including the killing of L Anand Sharma by KYKL. The statement mentioned that L Anand was given capital punishment by KYKL according to its law not to send any message to UNLF. It further charged that UNLF was concerned for its prestige while it does not recognize others to exist with self esteem. The statement also stated that KYKL had...