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NEW DELHI, Feb 14 ? Assam as well as other North East States may have apprehensions over being swamped by Bangladeshi infiltrators, but the Government of the country considers this fear as irritant, with visiting Foreign Minister Morshed Khan hinting that it could be tackled under international rules on migration. There are international set rules regarding illegal migrants, Khan told a meeting of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here today.

The Foreign Minister?s comments came before his formal meeting with External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha when the contentious issues were...

Imphal, Febuary 13: The Center has no plan to disband or disarm the .NSCN (IM) but the question is when Government of India can reach a. final accord with the party concerned, is there any rationale for the party to remain as it is. Ultimately they have to come overground and naturally all the arms have to be surrendered to the Government of India. Disclosing this to North East Press Service, a high ranking Central official narrated various events including that of Mizo National Front, (MNF) which took place in the past. He further explained as to how the then Mizo militant outfit, MNF...

Shillong, Feb. 13: Dismissing talk of the Centre isolating the Khaplang faction of the NSCN, the Union minister of state for home, I.D. Swami, today said the government had not lost sight of the fact that the outfit had as much a stake in Nagaland?s future as the Isak-Muivah group.

Swami told newspersons here that the Centre would hold talks with all insurgent outfits of the Northeast, provided they did not set any conditions. He said efforts were on to convince the NSCN (K) to opt for a dialogue and that the Centre had deputed secretaries in the home ministry to talk with S.S. Khaplang.

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GUWAHATI, Feb 13?The Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) will finalise the list of persons to be included in the interim body of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) within a week. This was disclosed by the BLT publicity secretary Mainao Daimary today. Talking to The Assam Tribune, Daimary said that the BLT will first seek the opinion of the Bodo mass organisations on the composition of the interim council and then the list would be finalised in a meeting of the BLT. He revealed that the State Cabinet would have to take the formal resolution for the dissolution of the Bodoland Autonomous Council...

IMPHAL, Feb 13 ? No Koireng tribe leader in his lifetime would not be able to become an MLA in the 60 member Manipur Legislative Assembly. This was disclosed by most of the visitors during the inaugural function of Koireng (Koren) youth organisation (KYO), Manipur?s 38th general conference which began on February 10 at Ngairong village, 58 km south of Imphal in Churachandpur district.

?This has become a common comment from each every individual who has visited any of Koireng village in this trouble torn state in recent years? the president of KYO R Yangsosang felt.

The reason is...