GUWAHATI, May 12 – The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) today announced a series of agitational programmes demanding holding of a joint session of the Parliament to repeal the controversial Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act. The AASU today also demanded immediate steps to seal the Indo-Bangla border to check fresh influx, implementation of all the clauses of the Assam Accord within a specific time frame, constitutional safeguard to indigenous people of Assam and to prepare the national register of citizens.

In a release here today, Prabin Boro and Amiya Kumar Bhuyan, the...

NEW DELHI, May 11 – Notwithstanding Bangladesh’s denials, India has given a list of 155 terrorist training camps operating at various places in that country, many with the help of ISI and Al-Qaeda and asked it to shut them down, reports PTI. While conveying its concern over the support by some fundamentalist organisations of Bangladesh to North-east terrorists, India at a recent high-level meeting has also sought deportation of 85 insurgents from the neighbouring country, official sources told PTI here today.

“We have information that ISI activities directed against India are on the rise in...

GUWAHATI, May 11— The mystery over the attack on the ancestral home of ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah at Jeraigaon in Dibrugarh district on Tuesday last has deepened with security officials alleging that the attack was stage-managed by the banned outfit to defame the government. What has added to the mystery is the fact that the ULFA is yet to make a detailed statement over the issue.

Security sources here said that there are enough indications to suggest that the ‘attack’ on the home of the ULFA commander in the dead of the night on Tuesday was carried out by members of the outfit...

GUWAHATI, May 11 – A joint meeting of 10 organisations, including nine minorities’ organisations, held here today under the auspices of the United Minorities’ Front (UMF), Assam, made an appeal to all the people in general and the minorities in particular, not to be provoked by the BJP and other forces’ bid to whip up communal tension in the name of repeal of IMDT Act.

The meeting presided over by UMF president HRA Choudhury also urged upon the people to maintain vigil against the designs of the communal forces and to keep intact the traditional peace and amity in the society at any cost. It...

Agartala, May 11: It takes them two days to reach their destination, but the long trek is the easiest part of their ordeal. The real test for these people, bonded labourers at the mercy of the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), is to survive the grind that awaits them in the jhum (shifting cultivation) fields scattered across the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.

After killing and abducting people at will, the NLFT has now made bonded labourers out of as many as 4,500 tribal residents of villages along the Indo-Bangladesh border. These impoverished people are supposedly...