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SILCHAR, March 16 – The militant outfit Dima Halom Daoga (DHD) today set a deadline of a week to the NSCN(IM) to release their kidnapped cadres. In a fax message to the local media here, the DHD publicity secretary Daoraja Dimasa alleged that the NSCN(IM) had kidnapped the cadres to disrupt the ongoing peace process between the Centre and the outfit.

AIZAWL, March 16 — Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, who has been involved in the Naga peace process, today said that the NSCN(I-M) leaders might come to Aizawl from Bangkok to hold talks with him. Talking to reporters at his official residence here, Zoramthanga, who has just returned from Bangkok after holding talks with Naga rebel leaders and some of North-east insurgent groups, said that there was a likelihood of the NSCN leaders meeting him in Aizawl. Commenting his latest meeting with NSCN(I-M) leaders, including its chairman Issac Chishi Swu in Bangkok, he said, “I thought this was the...

Guwahati, March 16: Trekking through the inhospitable terrain of the Himalayan foothills in Arunachal Pradesh, researchers have detected what was known to exist only in Myanmar — “leaf Muntjac”, the world’s smallest species of deer.

The leaf deer, called so because it is small enough to fit into a large leaf, is barely 20 inches tall and weighs approximately 25 pounds.

Zoologists are excited over the discovery of the exotic mammal’s presence in India. With the Myanmar junta rarely allowing outsiders into their land, very little research has been done on the leaf deer.

But with the species...

Agartala, March 16: The 13 newly-elected Congress legislators in Tripura will participate in the opening session of the Assembly without a legislature party leader. The leader of the Opposition in the last Assembly, Jawhar Saha, failed to make the cut in the just-concluded elections. In the present set up, there are at least four contenders for the post of legislature party leader. They are former chief minister and leader of the Opposition Samir Ranjan Barman, Dipak Roy, Sudip Roy-Barman and former PCC president Gopal Roy.

Sources said Samir Ranjan Barman was the front-runner for the post...

Dimapur, March 16: Twenty-four hours after two members of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) were shot dead by suspected NSCN (I-M) activists in the heart of Kohima, the NSCN (K) today issued a warning to the coalition government led by the Nagaland People’s Front (NPF). The Khaplang faction told the coalition to shed its “anti-NSCN (K) image or face the consequences”.

The ruling coalition must condemn factional killings, senior NSCN (K) functionary Kughalu Mulatonu told The Telegraph. Reacting to the “threat”, Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio, now in New Delhi, said his...