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GUWAHATI, May 9 — Even as the bill to repeal the IMDT Act was tabled in the Parliament today, hectic activities are on in the State among the protagonist and adversaries of the controversial act to mobilise public opinion in favour of their respective stands. While the BJP today took out a procession from Fancy Bazar to the DC’s court in the city exhorting support to the move to repeal the Act, the United Minorities Front (UMF) has convened a meeting of the like minded organisations to evolve a strategy for saving the Act or to find out an alternative to save the Indian minorities of...

NEW DELHI, May 9 — The Union Government in a surprise move, tabled the controversial draft IMDT Bill catching the Opposition unawares, even as the Congress party staged a walkout in protest against the tabling of the Bill. Uncertainty over the creation of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) was resolved, when the Union Government tabled two Bills proposing to amend the Sixth Schedules of the Constitution and the Article 332(6) of the Constitution. The contentious proposal to accord Schedule Tribe (Hills) to the Bodo living in the two hills districts of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills...

Guwahati, May 8: The militant United People?s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) today set a May 26 deadline to the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council to scrap its recommendation for granting Scheduled Tribe status to Bodos living in the hill districts of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills.

In a statement issued by the outfit?s frontal organisation, the Karbi Anglong-North Cachar People?s Resistance, the UPDS squarely held the chief executive members who have controlled the KAAC since 1991 responsible for the current crisis.

It warned the KAAC authorities of ?appropriate? action if the deadline was...

New Delhi, May 8: Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga has said serious efforts are on to bring the Ulfa to the negotiating table as part of a larger process to establish peace and stability in the Northeast.

?Though I have not yet been able to establish direct contact with any of the Ulfa leaders, we are trying to make them sit for dialogue. The intelligence agencies are also trying for a breakthrough while I am contributing to the process as much as possible,? the chief minister told The Telegraph.

The endeavour comes at a time when the banned outfit had continuously spurned offers for talks...

Guwahati, May 8: Alarmed by the apparent change in Nagaland?s demography, a youth organisation has served ?quit notices? on Bangladeshi migrants in the state.

Neighbouring Assam, for which illegal migration is an even bigger problem, has sounded an ?alert? along the inter-state border to prevent the fleeing migrants from entering its territory.

The anti-migrant campaign in Nagaland, which police say has been launched by the Kohima-based Lisami Youth Organisation, follows the Union Cabinet?s decision to repeal the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunal) Act, which is in force in Assam.

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