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Dibrugarh, Jan. 22: The army today denied the Ulfa claim that the outfit had killed 15 soldiers at Daisajan tea estate under Doomdooma police station in Upper Assam?s Tinsukia district yesterday.

A person, claiming to be Ulfa ?commander-in-chief? Paresh Barua, had called up The Telegraph yesterday and claimed that the outfit had killed 15 soldiers in an encounter with the army in the tea estate.

?It is a cowardly act of a group of militants who are frustrated and want to prove their existence,? said Maj. Gen. H.S. Batra, GOC of 2 Mountain Division, in charge of counter-insurgency operations...

Agartala, Jan. 22: The powerful but rival militant outfits, the National Liberation Front of Tripura and the All-Tripura Tiger Force, have made their stands clear ahead of the Assembly polls in the state in February.

The NLFT has already revealed its animosity towards the ruling Left Front, systematically killing tribal leaders and workers of the CPM. Sources said the killings are part of its programme to help the outfit?s alleged political front, the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura, garner tribal votes through intimidation.

Its bitter rival, the Tiger Force, has asked the people to...

Guwahati, Jan. 22: The department for Development of North Eastern Region (Doner) has expressed its unhappiness over the drawing of funds by Central departments from the non-lapsable central pool of resources for funding several projects in the Northeast.

?This could have been acceptable if the resource pool had funds to play around with. But since we have limited funds, the logic and rationale of the department funding activities of other ministries/departments of government of India is not very clear and to our mind not desirable,? said a report prepared by Doner joint secretary J.P...

Imphal, January 22: To remove the phumdis which have got a strangle hold on Loktak lake; plans are afoot to divert the phumdis to Manipur river through a canal to be constructed at Tera Khunou Khong Ahanbi in Mayang Imphal Assembly constituency. Earlier the phumdis were diverted towards Khordak river when the major rivers of the State are in spate and when the water level of Loktak rises appreciably. But since this has not worked satisfactorily, the State Government has decided to construct the canal at Tera Khunou Khong Ahanbi and divert the phumdis to Manipur River. To get a first hand...

GORESWAR, Jan 22 ? ?The non-Bodos have no right to speak against the ongoing process of the formation of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), because the proposed BTC is not meant only for the Bodos but for all who are living inside the previous Bodoland Autonomous Council (BAC) area,? said the president of the Kamrup District Committee of the All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU). Addressing the open session of the 15th annual conference of Goreswar Anchalik Committee unit of the All Bodo Students? Union held in the Bihu Ram Boro High School premises, Balabari recently, he said that the Bodos...