IMPHAL, April 4 — The Border Security Force, Nagaland and Manipur sector is likely to conduct more recuitment rallies sooner or later in Nagaland. Presently a large number of Naga youths who were recruited last year from seven districts of Nagaland-Dimapur, Tuensang, Mon, Kohima, Zunheboto, Phek and Mokokchung — are undergoing basic training at Churachandpur training centre in Manipur.

Talking to this reporter, an official of the BSF Nagaland & Manipur sector said that recruitment rallies were held at three different places in Nagaland and Manipur wherein 50 youths were selected for general...

DIBRUGARH, April 6— The Weights & Measures official at the Assam Legal Metrology department have found to their dismay that the Northeast Frontier Railway is flouting the Standards of Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1985 and the Assam Standards of Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Rules, 1994. While the Railways have taken no steps to make good the flaws, the Assam Government too has lost some revenue in the process, as stamping and verification of measurement apparatus by the Legal Metrology Department (LMD) yields some fees.

Though the Railway maintains that the diesel filling unit...

Jorhat, April 6: There is a flip side to good news, as the authorities of Assam’s Kaziranga National Park have learnt to their cost.

The good news first: the population of the one-horned rhino, deer and buffalo has registered a marked increase over the past few years, which is a remarkable turnaround for the poaching-hit game reserve.

The increase in the wildlife population has, however, made the park “a little too crowded” for comfort. To make matters worse, the area is shrinking because of erosion by the Brahmaputra and encroachment by settlers.

The park authorities are bracing for a...

Imphal, April 6: The United Liberation Front of Manipur (UNLF) today said it was protecting the Bengalis of Jiribam from a ?terrorist organisation? and also denied issuing any quit notices to the community.

Reacting to a report published today under the headline ?UNLF diktat prompts exodus, villagers flee Manipur sub-division?, the outfit said it has ?neither issued any quit notice nor imposed any tax on the Bengali community settled in Jiribam?.

?On the contrary, it is the UNLF that has been protecting the minority communities in Jiribam, including the Bengalis, from the relentless...

Shillong, April 6: Umrangsho in the North Cachar Hills has had little to do with the ethnic feud between Dimasas and Hmars so far, but after the March 31 incident at Chekarcham and Meghnathal in Cachar, things are not the same any more.

Forty-five-year-old Dingi, who fled the village with her family of eight members including a month-old baby, fears a violent backlash by militants of the Dima Halam Daoga in Umrangsho, which is flanked by Dimasa and Karbi villages in the north.

?We fled our homes as some of us have heard of a conspiracy by the DHD to torch our villages in retaliation against...