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GUWAHATI, March 24? The banned ULFA has sent out a ?desperate appeal? to the Centre to hold talks with the outfit and solve the ongoing insurgency issue in Assam. ?We desperately want a solution to the ongoing conflict in the State and the three conditions have been already set out by us,? said the editorial of the banned outfit?s mouthpiece Swadhinata (Freedom) in its latest issue which was e-mailed to a few local media here today. The ULFA wants that talks be held in a third country, under UN supervision and that the issue of Assam?s sovereignty be discussed.?

Imphal, March 24: Owing responsibility for the abduction of Chandel DC Y Thamkishore on March 18, NSCN (M) secretary general Thuingaleng Muivah said that the officer will be released unharmed if the Indian Government returns all the weapons seized from its cadres during the Pallel incident within the next few days. In an interview carried out by the Amsterdam based Naga International Support Centre (NISC) yesterday, the NSCN (IM) chief said ?the situation has been created by the armed forces of the Government of India. The GoI then must apologize for the treacherous attack and return all...

Imphal, March 24: Yambem ongbi Niroda, the distraught wife of the abducted official Y Thamkishore has fervently appealed to the gunmen who abducted her husband to release him safely and without any harm. Niroda who has been in Chandel since her husband was whisked away by the gunmen returned to Imphal today as the last seven days or so have not yielded any positive development. Speaking to newsmen at her Uripok Yambem Leikai residence this evening, the woman who has gone through sleepless nights and anxious moments said the abductors have so far not spelt out the reason why her husband was...

KOHIMA, March 23 ? NSCN-(I-M) chairman, Issac Chisi Swu recently said that the on-going peace talks with the Union Government had reached a crucial stage and it was time to take bold steps for a lasting solution to the decades-old Naga problem, reports PTI. ?During the past five years, we are making a snail pace in that direction despite all the obstacles. But now the crucial stage has arrived for both sides to take bold steps to break through the hurdles to bring a lasting solution (to Naga problem)?, the chairman said in a message to the Naga people on the occasion of ?23rd Naga republic...

AGARTALA, March 23 ? Mystery shrouds the killing of a DSP of Tripura police, Kalyan Sarkar, and three other policemen including one Meghalaya Police inspector Pratap Chetri in a pitched shoot-out yesterday in Dharmanagar town in North Tripura district. It is evident that a serious communication gap was primarily responsible for the bizarre incident that took the lives of four policemen and rocked both Tripura and Meghalaya. Even as an eerie silence descended in the shocked town of Dharmanagar, there is still confusion as to how such a fatal mistake could take place when both the police force...