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...

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...

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 12 ?The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad has called upon the Bodo leadership of the State to ensure that the non-Bodos living in the BTC area do not lag behind the Bodos in terms of rights and development.

In a press release, AJYCP president Apurba Kumar Bhattacharya and general secretary Dilip Shankar Saikia said it was the duty of the Bodo leadership to allay the fears of the non-Bodos living in the BTC area arising out of the signing of the Bodo Accord on February 10.

The two leaders said that while the aboriginal Bodos of the State had every right to enjoy autonomy...

GUWAHATI, Feb 12 ? The China Government?s action of developing infrastructure all along the international border may pose grave security threat to India and the Arunachal Pradesh Government has already informed the Centre about the development. This was disclosed by Arunachal Pradesh Education Minister Takam Sanjoy, who is also the State Government spokesman.

Talking to The Assam Tribune here on his way to Itanagar from New Delhi, Sri Sanjoy said that the border with China should be taken very seriously by the Government of India as ?we do not want a repeat of 1962?. He said that the China...