SOMEWHERE (Along) INDO-MYANMAR BORDER, April 9 – A number of militant outfits of this region have been taking shelters and imparting training inside hideouts in the Myanmar territory apart from transportation of sophisticated military equipment from the south east Asian countries into India’s porous north eastern states. This is despite the moves of the Myanmar military regime initiated for flushing out the North East underground militants’ from their camps inside the Myanmar territory with the killing of five activists of the banned NSCN (K) men along the Nagaland-Myanmar border last year...

ITANAGAR, April 11 — All Arunachal Pradesh Students Union (AAPSU) has cautioned the central and state governments of ‘serious consequences” if the inclusion of Chakmas and Hajongs in the state’s electoral rolls was not stopped immediately, reports PTI.

Quoting EC notification of March 31 asking Arunachal Pradesh government to enroll Chakmas and Hajongs in the voters list, AAPSU president Dominic Tadar told reporters here that the union along with other student bodies in the state would soon announce an agitational programme to “defeat the Centre and Election Commission’s design to include...

Guwahati/Silchar, April 11: A day after leaders of the warring Hmar and Dimasa tribes agreed to rebuild bridges of friendship, 80 more houses were set ablaze at Khepre near Maibong in North Cachar Hills district of Assam.

Inspector-general of police (law and order) S.B.Kakoti said in Guwahati that suspected Hmar tribesmen set fire to a row of houses belonging to Dimasas and hurled grenades at the villagers. However, nobody was injured.

The incident took place even as curfew was relaxed for three hours in Haflong, giving people an opportunity to replenish stocks of essential commodities...

Shillong, April 11: Former Meghalaya forest minister and NCP member Adolph Hitler Marak today claimed that the two suspected ANVC activists, arrested from a state pool car, which belonged to him, had surrendered last year before erstwhile home minister Lotsing A. Sangma.

Last week, police had seized a car belonging to Hitler Marak and had arrested two suspected ANVC members, identified as Ashabel D. Shira and Farooq R. Marak along with a resident of Mizoram, Rongsangzuala, from Weiloi in Balat under East Khasi Hills district.

Hitler Marak, who was a minister in the F.A. Khonglam government...

Shillong, April 11: The two-day Northeast tourism summit here, titled “Gateway to prosperity”, drew up a “roadmap” for developing tourism in the Northeast.

The roadmap, according to North Eastern Council advisor (banking) and in-charge (industries) F.R. Ingty, would examine the possibility of setting up rural tourism to develop villages as tourist centres.

The two-day summit was jointly organised by the NEC and the Association of Tour Operators of Northeast India at Hotel Polo Towers. The summit ended today, with participants from the Northeast and from some South Asian countries trying to...