Agartala, May 22: Chief executive member of Tripura?s Autonomous District Council Kripamohan Reang yesterday tendered his resignation in a letter to the council chairman Hirendra Tripura to pave the way for Debabrata Koloi to take over the reins of power.

However, incumbent chairman Hirendra Tripura, who was also expected to resign in compliance with the decision taken by the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) working committee, refused to step down.

The number of executive members of the council has been raised to nine from the current six.

GUWAHATI, May 22? The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is preparing itself to take over the responsibility of internal security duty or counter insurgency operations from the Army in the Northeastern region. The Inspector General of CRPF, North Eastern Region, Raj Deep Singh today informed that as per the recommendations made by the Group of Ministers formed by the Central government, the CRPF was expected to relieve the Army of its responsibility to counter the insurgents in the region and other parts of the country as well by the end of the year 2005.

The para-military force is now...

SHILLONG, May 22 ? With all the States in the North East in the throes of a critical power crisis, the Power Ministers of the region today expressed concern over the paradox of scarcity of power in the midst of unlimited but untapped power potential of the region. Participating in the 52nd meeting of the North Eastern Regional Electricity Board (NEREB) at Pinewood Hotel here today they urged upon the Government of India to implement the identified power projects in the region on a priority basis to reverse the trend which is adversely affecting the industrial development and economic...

GUWAHATI, May 22 ? The Karbi Students? Association (KSA) has decided to ?gherao? the offices of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) on May 29 to compel the elected representatives to ?act positively? on their demands centred on not granting ST(H) status to the Bodos living in the hill district. ?The KSA is determined to launch relentless struggle till the government concedes to the demand raised by the organisation,? KSA president Bidya Teron said during a press conference here today.

Deciding to launch a series of mass agitational programmes to protest against Clause 8 of the BTC...

GUWAHATI, May 22? For the forest guards of Assam, armed with outdated weapons, it is becoming impossible to deal with heavily armed militants, who frequent the reserve forests as well as poachers who have also started using sophisticated weapons like AK Series rifles. The Minister of State for Forest Pradyut Bordoloi admitted that the forest guards are hopelessly under-equipped to check felling of trees and movement of militants. For example, most of the forest guards in Kaziranga National Park are armed with only .315 rifles, while, in a recent incident of poaching, the poachers used AK-47...