GUWAHATI, June 11 ? As many as six North East militant outfits based in Manipur and Tripura has recently approached the Mizoram Chief Minister, Sri Zoramthanga to act as the catalyst in facilitating talks with the Central Government. The Minister for Information and Publicity of Mizoram, F Malsawma informed The Assam Tribune that these militant outfits, all hardcore groups including the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) had shown interest in sitting for talks with the Government of India and approached Sri Zoramthanga, a former Mizo National Front rebel, to facilitate the same.

Sri...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? The outlawed National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) has ?warned? the leaders of the All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU) and members of the Boro Legislature Party and Parliamentarians who have been ?carrying about their selfish political gameplan through the use of their muscle power called the BTC.? The outfit?s information and publicity secretary B Erakdao has accused the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) and the army of perpetrating atrocities on ?innocent Boro people.? In an e-mailed statement here, Erakdao accused the Government of India of engaging itself in a...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? A team of Zoologists, led by Dr (Smt) JK Grewal, former Head of the Department of Zoology in the city?s Handique Girls? College, has collected over 7,000 specimens referrable to more than 500 species of microlepidotream moths. Of the collected specimens, 50 are authentically identified and identification of the rest are also going on. The collection and identification of these moths are done or being done as part of a All India Co-ordinated Project on Taxonomy (AICOPTAX) Research on Microlepidoptera, initiated by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India...

Shillong, June 11: The rescue of six teenaged girls taken from the Northeast to brothels in Mumbai has left police and monitoring agencies in the Northeast in a tizzy. The incident has taken place on the eve of an international meeting on anti-trafficking to be held in Shillong on Friday.

According to members of the state chapter of the Action against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children (Atsec), the girls were found in a ?notorious brothel? called ?Congress house?, situated on Grant Road in Mumbai, by members of the Mumbai International Justice Mission.

According to a report...

Dibrugarh, June 12: Assam?s crisis-ridden tea industry today woke up to the shocking news of another tea executive being lynched by a group of irate labourers.

The victim, Mukul Dowerah, was assistant manager at Nandanmal tea estate in Dibrugarh district. He became the third garden executive to be murdered in Assam in less than two weeks. Labourers of Sapoi tea estate in Sonitpur district had lynched two managers and set fire to their bodies on May 30.

Dibrugarh police said seven labourers waylaid and killed 35-year-old Dowerah when he was returning to his office after a field visit on his...