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IMPHAL, April 29 – The Central government will be launching a new project for having double lane on the National Highway-53, connecting Imphal with Silchar. The Union Surface and Transport Minister has given an assurance to this effect. India’s National Highways connecting Myanmar (formerly Burma) through the north-eastern states, particularly Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Assam, have been reduced to targets of the lawful and unlawful organisations. The NHs passing through Manipur are the lifelines for the people of this State which borders western Myanmar.All essential commodities are...

Guwahati, April 28: In village after village across Assam, a silent revolution is changing the face of the once superstition-ridden society and giving a new mantra of life to hardened criminals.

Consider this: In Khagail village of Karimganj district, former dacoits are now actually serving as village policemen and helping the people combat crime at the grassroots level.

Indeed, just two years after its launch, Assam police’s ambitious Project Prahari has brought back smiles on the faces of thousands of people and proved the sceptics wrong.

An acronym for “people for progress”, Project...

GUWAHATI, April 28 — Close on the heels of ethnic riots between Dimasa and Hmar communities in the districts of North Cachar Hills and Cachar, threat of another ethnic strife over the issue of granting Scheduled Tribe (Hills) status to the Bodos living in the hill districts is looming large in Karbi Anglong.

According to the Clause 8 of the Memorandum of Settlement signed between the Central and State Governments and Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT), the government would consider sympathetically the issue of granting ST(H) status to the Bodo Kacharis living in the Karbi Anglong and NC Hills...

Guwahati, April 27: The apex organisation of the Dimasa tribe today urged the Assam government to flush out Hmar militants from Cachar and North Cachar Hills, saying they were responsible for the spate of ethnic clashes in the twin districts.

The Jadikhe Naisho Hoshom (JNH) said militants of the Hmar People’s Convention (Democratic) had infiltrated the strife-torn districts from adjacent Manipur and Mizoram to instigate the Hmar community to fight with the Dimasas.

Waimijing, another Dimasa organisation, made a similar statement in a memorandum to chief minister Tarun Gogoi.

The JNH asked the...

SHILLONG, April 27 — Drugs including one kilogram of heroin and five kg of ganja and fake vehicle number plates were recovered from an illegal NSCN(IM) town command headquarter in Dimapur recently exposing fresh evidence that the militant outfit is engaged in drug-peddling and other unlawful activities in violation of the ceasefire ground rules. Assam Rifles sources here revealed that the troops of the para-military force busted the unauthorised camp of NSCN(IM) on April 21 last in a lightning board daylight operation. As per ceasefire ground rules in Nagaland, all NSCN (IM) cadres are...