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DHUBRI, June 22 ? Forest department of Dhubri started eviction of encroachers from forest lands from June 9 last. On that day Forest department personnel evicted 10 families from their unauthorised occupation of land in the Rajapara proposed reserve forest. Ten huts erected by the families on the encroached land for dwelling purpose were also dismantled. According to Forest department sources, a total of five hectares of land were freed in the process. It is learnt from the Divisional Forest Office source that Dhubri district has a total of 27831.38 hactres of reserve forest areas, and 18587...

KOKRAJHAR, June 22 ? The Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) has expressed strong resentment over the State government?s dilly-dallying attitude in solving long-standing problems of the Bodos. The outfit blamed the government functionaries entrusted to solve the Bodo tangle for the delay. Referring to the State Government?s commitment to framing modalities with regard to creation of Bodoland Territory as a core issue duly submitted to the Central Government, the BLT said the government has failed to keep its earlier promiseson substantive issues touched upon during several rounds of negotiations at...

Imphal, June 22: Demonstrating strong protests against the merger of the 11 MLAs with the Congress, Rajya Sabha MP and seasoned political figure, Rishang Keishing today resigned from the post of the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Secular Progressive Front. In another development the Nationalist Congress Party has walked out of the SPF sparking off a potential round of political upheaval in the days to come. Rishang Keishing submitted his resignation letter to the Secretary of the Steering Committee, Ph Parijat of the CPI who is also the PCS Minister. In his resignation paper...

AGARTALA, June 21 ? Reports of fierce infighting between the rival militant groups belonging to NLFT and ATTF are pouring in from Bangladesh. Both the militant outfits are at present holed up in the neighbouring country from where they cross over to Indian territory to carry out attacks. According to an unconfirmed report, recently the NLFT (Nayanbashi) faction pulled off a severe attack on an ATTF camp in Bangladesh. The NLFT (N) contingent led by one Thomas Debbarma shot dead seven ATTF militants and snatched away seven AK series rifles and one SLR. The attack was followed by yet another...

GUWAHATI, June 21? For those who are sceptic about the talents and commitment of the people of the NE region for doing something remarkable, here is a 56-year-old man from Assam to make them banish all their scepticism. He is Dr Sarbeswar Sahariah, who hails from Tengabari Road, Mangaldai. Dr Sahariah has made an enviable record of performing about 2,500 kidney transplant operations at various centres in the country. This is probably the largest number of kidney transplantation done by a single surgeon in the country. Dr Sahariah, after doing his MBBS from the Guwahati Medical College (GMC) in...