AIZAWL, Feb 14 ? A meeting of all the major non-governmental organisations and political parties in Mizoram here Thursday formed a Joint Action Committee (JAC) to spearhead a movement protecting delimitation of Assembly constituencies by the Delimitation Committee, reports PTI.

The JAC spokesman told PTI that the NGOs including the Young Mizo Association and the Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) or Mizo Students? Federation and representatives of all major political parties were unanimous in condemning the draft delimitation proposals. The JAC would launch a statewide procession on Tuesday next to...

Imphal, Febuary 13: Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singli while urging the Centre to initiate political dialogues with all militant outfits operating in Manipur, has expressed the hope that the decade-long armed struggle by the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) will come to an end with the militant outfit signing a memorandum of settlement (MoS) with the governments of India and Assam in New Delhi on Feb 10. Talking to the North East Press Service at his office chamber here, the chief Minister who also holds home portfolio blamed the Centre for its failure to take any spade work for inviting the...

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...

GUWAHATI, Feb 13 ? Eminent litterateur Medini Choudhury breathed his last while on way to a city hospital around 10 am today. Choudhury was terminally ill for the past couple of years. He was 76. Born to Late Hitram Choudhury and Late Sarala Bala Choudhury at Ramcha village near Goreswar in Kamrup District, Choudhury had his school education at Gadlapara and Nalbari Gurdon High School. He did his BA from Cotton College in 1948.

After working as a journalist for the Asomiya and the Dainik Santidoot for some years, Choudhury joined the Assam Civil Service in 1956. He retired from Government...

UDALGURI, Feb 13 ? The Nepali-speaking communities all over India and the Bodos in Assam and other NE States both belong to the minority linguistic groups like other minorities sharing common problems and hence when the Bodoland Territorial Council is formed, the Bodo organisations themselves have to ensure security to land, property and human resources of all minority ethnic groups living in the BTC. This view was expressed by Sri Sukhman Moktan, organising secretary of All India Gorkha Parishanga while speaking as distinguished guest in the open session of the 34th biennial (golden jubilee...