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GUWAHATI, May 19: The Royal Government of Bhutan has called upon its nationals to voluntarily join a government militia force to fight and remove the ULFA, NDFB and Kamatapur Liberation Organization (KLO) rebels operating from bases inside the tiny Himalayan kingdom, reports today said.

"When the security and sovereignty of our country is under threat, the true sons of the soil must step forward and not wait to be called upon to serve their country," Bhutan?s King Jigme Singhye Wangchuk was quoted as saying by Kuensel, the country?s national newspaper.

Addressing a group of people?s...

Tinsukia/Imphal, May 19: Organic tea produced by the Singpho tribesmen of Upper Assam and small growers in neighbouring Manipur is set to take the global market by storm.

World Community Development Education Society (WCDES), a Vancouver-based NGO, has joined hands with Singpho tea producers to produce and market organic tea in North America. The Manipur-based Foundation for Environment and Economic Services (FEEDS) has done likewise, signing agreements with three companies from Germany, Japan and the UK.

The Singpho tribe claims to have introduced organic tea to the British way back in the...

GUWAHATI, May 19?The prestigious Rajdhani Express from Guwahati to New Delhi has been be made a daily service following increase in the frequency from Guwahati to New Delhi via Patna from three days a week to five days a week and Guwahati-Dibrugarh town link Rajdhani Express from two days to three days a week. An NF Railway press release said the Guwahati-New Delhi Rajdhani Express has been provided an additional stoppage at Allahabad with effect from May 25. The Express from Dibrugarh via Guwahati will run on Saturday, Sunday and Monday even as the train leaving Dibrugarh on Saturday and...

NEW DELHI, May 19 ? Alarmed at the presence of Northeast militants on its soil, Bhutan has decided to set up a counter-insurgency force to fight them and asked India to ensure that no more militants enter the tiny Himalayan Kingdom, reports PTI. ?They (North-east militants) have to be made to leave the country before they strengthened their presence in Bhutan,? a senior Bhutanese official Sonam Tshering was quoted as saying on the internet edition of government funded newspaper Kuensel.

Bhutan has asked militants to wind up their camps before June 30 failing which Government would take...

Agartala, May 18: Tripura police claim to have got wind of a plan by the banned All-Tripura Tiger Force and a faction of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) to drive out Bengali settlers from the state.

Sources in the intelligence wing of the police said the spurt in militant activity in West and North Tripura districts indicated that the NLFT?s Nayanbasi Jamatya faction and the Tiger Force had joined hands again for ?Operation Roukhala (deportation)?.

Jamatya broke away from the NLFT in January 2001 and struck a deal with the Tiger Force. The two groups carried out joint...