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GUWAHATI, May 2 — The Army today released the 15 Dima Halam Daogah (DHD) militants it had picked up from Udarbund area in Cachar district on Tuesday last on charges of violating ‘ceasefire’ ground rules. The Army apprehended the militants along with weapons far away from their ceasefire designated camp at Ditokcherra in North Cachar Hills district on suspicion that the Dimasa ultras were out to attack Hmar community areas in Cachar district.

However, in the wake of arrest of its cadres by the Army, the DHD yesterday threatened to pull out of the ceasefire agreement with Government of India...

GUWAHATI, May 2 — The arrest of two NDFB leaders in Kolkata on Tuesday has exposed the feud running deep amongst the top leadership of the banned militant outfit. Police sources today said NDFB chairman Ranjan Daimary was directly behind the arrest of Sunil Brahma alias B Simang, the NDFB spokesperson, and it was Daimary who intimated Kolkata police about the presence of Brahma along with Indra Mohan Basumatary alias B Buthang, the other NDFB man arrested there.

The rift between Daimary and Brahma has been widening for the last several years and although it narrowed to some extent at the...

GUWAHATI, May 2 — A nefarious design has been orchestrated by the Pakistani ISI to bring about a change in the demographic composition of the North East in general and Assam in particular. The design is being implemented by encouraging illegal influx from Bangladesh and propping up fundamentalist militant outfits imbued with a dream of a Islamic homeland.

Security sources told The Assam Tribune here that the infiltration problem in Assam is becoming graver by the day with little signe of any ebb in the flow of Bangladeshis crossing over into India. Most of them head for Assam and West Bengal...

DIMAPUR, May 1 —The Consultative Committee for Peace, set up by the ruling Democratic Alliance government in Nagaland, headed by the state Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio in its first meeting held at Kohima on Tuesday has decided not to recommend extension of ‘Disturbed Area’ notification under Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 in 20 km belt bordering Assam beyond May 4 next.

The committee also decided to convey the state Government’s view to the Central Government for further necessary action. The Committee after thorough deliberations also expressed its happiness and welcomed the extension...

IMPHAL, May 1—Contrary to the predictions and speculations, the much-awaited allocation of the portfolios to the newly-inducted ministers was effected after a gap of eleven days late Wednesday evening. The portfolios to the newly-inducted ministers were allocated soon after the arrival of the Governor, Ved Marwah from New Delhi on Wednesday. However, the government notification was made available to the press late in the evening.

Mention may be made here that nine ministers of state were elevated to the Cabinet rank while two other MLAs were inducted into the Council of Ministers of the...