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GUWAHATI, Jan 16? The Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC) has urged, the State Government to take up ?strongly? with the Government of Meghalaya the alleged ?unprovoked armed invasion? of Karbi Anglong by the Meghalaya Police (MLP) last Monday. The Committee has demanded that such ?illegal and objectionable behaviour? by the MLP should not be repeated in future.

ASDC publicity secretary Dharamsing Teron, in a press release this evening, said that armed MLP personnel, claiming to be a Special Operation Team (SOT), had entered Karbi, Anglong through Umjakiri, under Baithalangso police...

ITANAGAR, Jan 16 ? Approximately 30,000 (thirty thousand) of pilgrims braving the chilly cold took a holy dip at the famous Parashuram Kund in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh on the eve of ??Paush Makar Sankranti.?? Official sources from Tezu, the district headquarter of Lohit told The Assam Tribune over phone Tuesday that thousands of pilgrims, sadhus, old men-women and children from different parts of the country including pilgrims from neighbouring Nepal and Bhutan queued up in the early morning to take holy dip with a belief that a dip in the kund is enough to exonerated oneself from...

Guwahati, Jan. 16: The NSCN (I-M) today dismissed the Centre?s assertion that future rounds of peace talks with the outfit would be held only in the country.

Deputy kilo kilonser (?home minister?) of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) V. Horam told The Telegraph via telephone from Dimapur that they were not bound to hold future talks in India.

?As far as we are concerned, the future talks could be held in Delhi or in any European or Asian country,? Horam said.

Union minister of state for home I.D. Swami, in a telephone interview with The Telegraph recently, had said the...

Imphal, January 16: With the Nagaland Assembly election round the corner, political parties of the State have exploited the ongoing NSCN(IM)-GOI peace talk to the maximum as a poll plank, through interpreting the issue from different angles. While Chief Minister SC Jamir seems to pursue the flip flop stand about the ongoing parleys between the NSCN-IM leaders and Central Leaders in New Delhi, the Opposition Front, NPF headed by former CM Hokishe Sema has gone with the full backing to the ongoing peace talk considering that the issue could be the best bet and bait for the forthcoming election...

Jorhat, Jan. 16: A landmark signature campaign is under way in rural areas along the Brahmaputra in Jorhat and Sivasagar districts to create awareness to conserve birds in the region. A charter containing suggestions for protection of birds with one lakh signatures will be presented to chief minister Tarun Gogoi at the inaugural function of first-ever bird festival in Assam. The four-day event will begin on January 19 in Jorhat and Sivasagar simultaneously.

The festival has been organised by the Action for Greener Earth to generate awareness among the people to preserve the avian heritage on...