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The suspense: Where are the Naga leaders staying? Several stories specially are doing the rounds with a prying media brigade haunting all possible leads. While some reports indicated that they were being hosted in a five star hotel others suggested guesthouses of para-military forces that are located in different parts of Delhi and farm houses located on the outskirts of the city. However, it appears that the Naga leaders have been settled in secret IB safe house, which is a Type-Six Government quarter located in a post government colony in South Delhi.

Hosting the NSCN (I-M) leaders in a...

GUWAHATI, Jan. 9 – Though the Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani recently stressed the need for deporting the foreign nationals illegally living in the country, the number of foreigners detected and deported from Assam came down drastically since the Illegal Migrants (Determinations by Tribunals) IMDT Act came into effect. However, the decision of the Government of India to issue multipurpose photo identity cards to all Indian citizens would check fresh influx from Bangladesh.

According to official records, more than three lakh foreigners were deported from Assam under the provisions of the...

Kolkata, January 9: On a day when the Central government talked peace with the NSCN (IM) leaders in New Delhi, Manipur was rocked by violence and bloodshed.

In one of the fiercest encounters between security forces and north-eastern extremist groups in recent times, the Manipur Peoples Liberation Front (MPLF), an umbrella organisation of three underground outfits of Manipur, shot dead four BSF personnel and seriously injured several others. The BSF casualty included an assistant commandant.

The militants also took away a couple of AK 47s and a wireless set from the slain jawans. Three...

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...

Jan. 9: The Bodo heartland was rocked by violent protests by non-Bodos following a 12-hour Assam bandh called by the All-Adivasi Students’ Association, Assam, against the creation of the proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). The bandh supporters lobbed a Molotov cocktail on an oil tanker, which caught fire, at Srirampur in Kokrajhar district. The supporters also damaged 10 vehicles on the national highway between Dhemaji and Lakhimpur. Nearly 100 picketers were arrested in Sonitpur district. Incidents of stone pelting were also reported from some non-Bodo pockets in the proposed BTC...