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...

GUWAHATI, April 25 — The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is slowly, but steadily, establishing firm roots in Assam thanks to the support it is receiving from hardline Islamic fundamentalists and insurgent groups in the State, security sources informed here. In many ways, the ISI is now directing most of the anti-national activities in the State, they said.

According to the sources, the ISI is coordinating the activities of most of the insurgent outfits in the North East, including the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB), the...

GUWAHATI, April 25 — The draft forest policy of the State has been prepared with an aim at tackling the issues concerning people’s need and conservation of forests. The State Government will examine the draft for preparing the forest policy in order to meet the challenges throw by the present situation on matters related to conservation of forests and sustainable development. Addressing a brief function held on the occasion of release of the draft policy at the Jawahar Nagar Guest House No 1 this morning, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the draft was prepared by an expert committee as a...

IMPHAL, April 25 – Four militants of Kuki Liberation Army (KLA), including a person involved in the recent kidnapping of German national Heinrich Wolfgang, have been arrested in Manipur, official sources said on Friday, reports PTI. Acting on a tip-off, police forces conducted search operations at Kamu and Koireng villages in interior Thoubal district and nabbed KLA militant Letkhohao Misao and three others on Thursday.

Misao was involved in the recent kidnapping of Heinrich Wolfgang who came here to inspect the functioning of some NGOs funded by some German agencies and also in the abduction...

Imphal, April 24: Manipur police have arrested one of the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) militants who had abducted German social worker Heinrich Wolfgang on March 23 and senior telecom official J. Lunkim the previous month.

The militant was arrested along with three other members of the same outfit during a special operation last night at Kamu Koireng under Yairipok police station of Thoubal district. The district superintendent of police led the operation.

The arrested militants were identified as Letkhohao Misao, alias Haopu, of Chandel district, Genlal Vaiphei, Thianminboi Vaiphei and Behma...