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KOHIMA, Jan 18 ? After Jammu and Kashmir, voters slips in addition to photo identity cards (PIC) will be used for the first time in the North-east when Nagaland goes to Assembly elections on February 26, reports PTI.

Disclosing this here Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) JM Lyngdoh on Friday night told reporters that voters slips would be provided to the head of each family in Nagaland and not in Meghalaya and Tripura which also go to polls on the same day. The full Election Commission team led by Lyngdoh, reviewed the election preparations and security arrangements during meetings with the...

RANGIYA, Jan 18 ? Promod Baro, president All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU), Kamrup District Committee and Pabitra Kumar Baro, commander, Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT), Kamrup District Committee, in a joint statement issued to the press here expressed great resentment over the activities carried out by Sanmilita Jana-Gosthiya Sangram Parishad and ARMCA against their peaceful movement for solution of the Bodo problem. The AMRCA accused ABSU and BLT of kidnapping one Mantu Das and Sri Shyam Charan Das of Jokmari village in Nalbari district. Both ABSU and BLT said that they were not involved in any...

AGARTALA, Jan 18 ? The Opposition Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) yesterday announced its candidates for 16 seats out of 18 in which they would fight against the Left Front. The candidates for the two seats Jolaibari and Asharambari will be announced later, said party?s general secretary Rabindra Debbarma. The party has left two ST reserved constituencies Pecharthal and Golaghati to Congress.

Apparently dogged by the ?Congress syndrome? in view of presence of more than one aspirant, the INPT failed to reach a consensus as to who should be nominated in the two remaining...

GUWAHATI, Jan 18? The government of India?s decision to issue multipurpose photo identity cards to all Indian citizens will definitely help the police in checking fresh infiltration from Bangladesh, said Border Police sources here. Talking to The Assam Tribune Border Police sources pointed out that the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) IMDT Act was a hurdle in the way of detection and deportation of foreign nationals from Assam, but it is not too difficult to deport a fresh infiltrator. According to figures available with the Border Police, during the period from 1985 to 2002...

GUWAHATI, Jan 18 ? Over 31,000 of the State?s children who have never been to schools, have been brought to the mainstream LP schools, while a new initiative to bring the rest of the out-of-school kids to the mainstream schools is slated to start from February 10 next. A Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) survey has put the number of the State?s out-of-school children, between six and fourteen years of age, to be around 14.5 lakh.

According to SSA sources, the children already enrolled in the LP schools were provided with a brief course of training under the bridge course of the District Primary...