SHILLONG, April 27 — The Hmar people have strongly warned the Dimasa people and Assam Government that they must not be held responsible for any future catastrophe if the terror tactics and the oppressive methods unleashed on them (Hmars) are not immediately stopped. In a faxed statement to North East Press Service here on Thursday, Lalthanmawia Pajamte, Joint Secretary of the apex body of the Hmars, “the Hmar Inpui”, said recent onslaughts against the Hmar people had forced them to a totally defensive position with no options of going offensive.

Ridiculing the peace proposal arranged by 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...

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...

NEW DELHI, April 27 —The Assam Government has advocated continuation of ban on ULFA and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) citing several incidents of attacks on para-military forces and Army, kidnapping and use of sophisticated weapons by these militant groups, reports PTI. Leading evidence before Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal headed by Justice Manmohan Sarin, standing counsel for State Government Krishna Sharma stated that these groups have acquired sophisticated weapons like AK-56 assault rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers and were indulging in activities...

NEW DELHI, April 26—For the North-east rock music is folk music, so said the organisers and the first-ever Doordarshan (DD) North-east Music Fest began with a bang that left the music lovers rocking like never before. If the DD, Department of Development of the North Eastern Region (DONER) and Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), the organisers of the event were looking for a subject to showcase the other face of the trouble-torn North-east, they sure hit the target, as students, youths off-duty executives and tourists swayed to the hipswinging numbers by rock bands from the eight North eastern...