IMPHAL, April 4 – Formed three years ago with an objective to bring all the Kuki underground outfits operating in this border and volatile state into one common platform, the United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF) has once again appealed to all kuki groups to come forward to achieve its common goal. “Our main motto is Kilungkhat Galjo in our local tongue which signifies re-unification among the Kuki outfits under one common agenda” says S S Haokip, Commander in-Chief of the UKLF.

There are around five Kuki underground outfits in Manipur even though the Kuki population is comparatively lesser...

TURA, April 1 — Unscientific mining continues in the rich coal belt area of Nangalbibra in South Garo Hills despite Tuesday’s tragic event in which seven coal miners died inside a rat hole while digging for coal. These rat holes have sprung up in virtually every hill in Nangalbibra. Each hole is spacious enough to squeeze in one person at a time only. The miners were digging deep inside a mountain at Rongsa Awe, one of the richest coal belt areas of Garo Hills, when they accidentally dug into the walls of a abandoned mine shaft that was filled with water. Heavy water rushed into their hole and...

NEW DELHI, April 4 — The honeymoon between NSCN (IM) leadership and Government of India’s chief interlocutor, K Padmanabhaiah appears to be over, with the Naga leadership warning that peace talks would be hit by if Government insisted on arms surrender. Even as the Government of India and NSCN (IM) are preparing the ground for the next round of talks somewhere in Europe, the Naga outfit fired another salvo at Padmanabhaiah by regretting ‘the irresponsible’ utterances from representatives of Government of India.

The NSCN (IM) is apparently put off by a statement about the possibility of the...

Silchar/Guwahati, April 4: The army was called out in North Cachar Hills district of Assam and asked to be on standby in nearby Cachar as the orgy of ethnic violence continued to torment tribal-inhabited villages and the body count mounted.

Alarmed by the worst ethnic flare-up in the state since the Bodo-Adivasi clashes in Lower Assam, the Assembly decided to send a peace mission to the affected areas tomorrow. Speaker Prithibi Majhi will lead the delegation.

Police officials in Silchar said panic-stricken Dimasas lynched a Kuki tribesman, mistaking him for a Hmar, in Diongmukh village of...

GUWAHATI, March 4 — Assam Government will bring a Bill to empower the State Government to have control over natural gas resources available in the State in the line of the Gujarat Gas (Regulation of Transmission, Supply and Distribution) Bill, 2001. The State Minister for Mines and Minerals, Gobinda Chandra Langthasa today made a statement in the House in this regard after the AGP legislator Gunin Hazarika moved a private member Bill over the issue.

Sri Hazarika moved the Assam Regulatory Board (Control and Distribution) on Gas and Gas Works, Bill, 2003 in the House today in order to empower...