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AGARTALA, May 8 — The toll in the death dance by insurgent groups in Tripura rose to 33 today with two persons succumbing to their injuries at the GB Hospital here in the wee hours today, police said, reports PTI. The two — Suradhani and Sanjoy Sarkar were among the six injured in the shootout Wednesday by the banned All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) at Satcharri, a border village of West Tripura district which claimed the lives of 19 others.

Another 10 persons were killed by suspected insurgents of proscribed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) armed with automatic weapons who opened...

KOHIMA, May 8 – The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (IM) said it was committed to “peaceful means for solution” to the more-than-half-a-century old Indo-Naga political problem but lamented that “Indians’ commitment leaves much to be desired despite assurances” reports NEPS. In an exclusive interview to a Netherlands based national daily that made available to North East Press Service Tuesday, General Secretary of the NSCN (IM) Thuingaleng Muivah, however, asserted that the unification of “Naga territories” and their national identities were “non-negotiable. “In other words, the...

GUWAHATI, May 8 – The militant United Peoples’ Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) has given a deadline, till May 26, to the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) to pass a resolution withdrawing its earlier recommendations to the government regarding the conferment of ST(Hills) status to the Bodo’s living in Karbi Anglong.Stating that successive ruling parties at the KAAC have sacrificed the political interests of the indigenous tribal community ‘at the alter of political opportunism, the militant group’s publicity secretary L Ronghang said in a press statement that the UPDS will be ‘forced to...

NEW DELHI, May 8 — Emboldened by the Centre’s move to repeal the IMDT Act, Assam BJP today urged the Central leadership to reintroduce the Immigrants Expulsion Act, 1950 and the Foreigners Act 1946. The Union Cabinet while recommending the repeal of the controversial Act has proposed to replace it by Foreigner Act by providing that all pending cases in the IMDT Tribunals as well as fresh cases would be tried under Foreigners Act.

Meanwhile, the draft IMDT Bill is unlikely to be tabled in the current session of the Parliament as the Government legislation business formally came to end today...

Guwahati, May 7: The All-Assam Students’ Union and several other organisations today hailed the Centre’s decision to repeal the contentious Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act as a “bold move”, but the Congress and minority groups said it was a “dangerous gameplan” by the BJP to foment communal tension.

The All-Assam Minority Students’ Union (AAMSU) warned of a Nellie-like massacre in the wake of the legislation being repealed and called a 12-hour statewide bandh from 5 am of May 10.

Terming the Centre’s decision a “Hitlerian one”, it accused the BJP of “turning its attention to...