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GUWAHATI, May 12 — Armed militants struck twice in the heart of Haflong town of North Cachar Hill district today killing two persons in broad daylight including a son of State Hill Areas Development Minister Gobinda Chandra Langthasa and an employee of the Divisional Forest Office (DFO). Police sources here informed that suspected Hmar militants coming in an autorickshaw opened fire at Narmendu Langthasa who was travelling in his car along with his wife to fetch his daughter from a convent school in Haflong town, killing him on the spot while his wife had a narrow escape.

The slain Narmendu...

Guwahati, May 11: Putting up a joint front against the Centre’s decision to scrap the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, over a dozen minority organisations today formed a coordination committee to stall the move by highlighting the inherent dangers it posed to religious and linguistic minorities of the state.

The United Minority Coordination Committee, formed under the chief convenorship of United Minority Front president Hafiz Rashid Choudhury, will take up a series of “nationwide” programmes to spread awareness about New Delhi’s move to scrap the Act.

The committee will...

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...

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...

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...