GUWAHATI, Jan 9 — Members of the Assam Special Reserve Force (ASRF) have threatened to mutiny unless the ‘discrimination’ meted out to the personnel is stopped. “We won’t be responsible for the consequences,” advisor to the ASRF Bn Unnayan Samity Anukul Sinha warned today. Addressing the press here this morning along with Samity general secretary Taser Ali Ahmed and assistant general secretary Kulen Gohain, Sinha said that the personnel of the ASRF’s two battalions, raised in 1984, had been enjoying all the benefits as the Assam Police battalions with Assam Rifles scales as long as IPS and APS...

Imphal, January 09: The KYKL today said it has not been able to do anything for the people rather than collecting money and giving hardships. The organization has been collecting money from the people and it is not expecting any support from abroad which is unlikely it said. The organization is not involved in any activities which can be considered bad like drug and narcotics. It is against its principles K Koireng Finance Secy today said in a press statement. There is no organization which does not take support from the people it said. It would be a wrong step if collection of taxes is...

Imphal, January 09: The Khaplang faction of the NSCN has categorically stated that the no real ‘peace’ or ‘solution’ would be brought by the talk between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) adding that the IM group is not the sole representative of the Naga people. In a statement, the NSCN (K) today said that the real cause of the Naga people is sovereignty and anything short of it would not be acceptable to the Nagas. NSCN (K) has been fighting for the ‘real cause’ and would continue to fight for it regardless of any ‘agreement,’ reached between the IM group and the Centre. The present...

Shillong, Jan. 9: After the talks with the NSCN (I-M) leaders, the Centre is likely to start negotiations with the banned outfit from the Garo Hills — the A’chik National Volunteers’ Council — in the first week of February. Though a date is yet to be fixed, highly placed sources said both New Delhi and the ANVC have agreed to meet in New Delhi and “work out a settlement”. Sources in the Garo Hills said the ANVC has already held two meetings with the Centre’s representatives where it “agreed” to meet the Central leaders without any preconditions.

The ANVC has welcomed New Delhi’s acceptance of...

Guwahati, Jan. 9: The NSCN (I-M) today said it has not given up its demand for “self-determination” and its decision to hold “unconditional talks” in an “accommodative spirit” did not mean it has agreed to talks within the framework of the Constitution. “By an accommodative spirit, we mean that our efforts will be to find a solution that is honourable and acceptable to both sides,” NSCN (I-M) deputy kilonser V. Horam told The Telegraph over telephone from Dimapur.

He further stated it would be wrong to attach a “political connotation” to the fact that its leaders — Isak Chisi Swu and...