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Kohima/Dimapur, Feb. 5: The NSCN (I-M) has raised hopes of reconciliation of the warring Naga factions by terming the rival Khaplang group?s unity formula a ?good one?, though it has yet to directly respond to the offer.

Naga Hoho president M. Vero today quoted the NSCN (I-M) leadership as saying that the Khaplang group had made a proposal worth considering. He said the Naga Hoho would send a reminder to the NSCN (I-M) to officially make its stand clear.

Vero?s disclosure comes in the wake of NSCN (K) leader S.S. Khaplang?s statement that his group had submitted a unity formula to the Naga...

New Delhi, 6th February: An MOU was signed today at the Manipur Bhawan, New Delhi, between Government of Manipur, Planning Commission and United Nations Development Programme on preparation of the Manipur Human Development Report (M-HDR). Government of Manipur, in partnership with the Planning Commission and (UNDP) is preparing the MHDR. The report, which is expected to be ready for release by September, 2003, will focus on human development attainments of the different districts of the State. Of concern will be issues of health and nutrition, literacy and livelihoods. State Government has...

Silchar, Feb. 5: The Centre has cleared a proposal to set up an additional joint monitoring group to review adherence to the ground rules of the six-month ceasefire between the government and the Dima Halam Daoga (DHD). The truce took effect on January 1.

North Cachar Hills deputy commissioner Syed Iftikar Hussain told The Telegraph over phone from Haflong that the monitoring panel, headed by joint secretary in the Union home ministry Aravinda Kumar, would be in addition to the district-level co-ordination committee comprising senior government officials and DHD leaders. The group will meet...

Sometime in the Eighties, a desperate husband had carried his wife hundreds of miles through jungle paths to reach the Upper Assam town of Margherita to ensure that she received proper medical treatment for a serious illness. Years later, the overwhelmed wife has become the stabilising factor in the life of S.S. Khaplang, who heads the NSCN (K).

From ensuring a constant supply of lukewarm water ? which Khaplang claims keeps him refreshed all day ? to managing his ?home? deep inside the jungles of this Tenup Tephak Joku Valley in Myanmar, the insurgent leader?s wife makes sure that he is never...

Imphal, Febuary 05: To protest the non-payment of 13 months salaries as well as pay for January this year, jawans of the 2nd IRB today laid down their arms and refused to report for duty from 6 pm today. Officers of the 2nd IRB however said that the Treasury Department has already passed the salary bill and the amount has been transferred to the account of the CO. the pay could not be released today as the bank run out of harsh cash, they said adding that it will be released as soon as the bank receives the money. The agitation will continue until and unless the 13 months pay and January...