Inter-state Border

Mizoram and Assam on Friday agreed to continue to promote and maintain peace along the inter-state border, as part of efforts to resolve their decades-long boundary dispute.

Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma on Tuesday said that he and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma have agreed not to allow any more violence along the disputed inter-state border.

Mizoram and Assam on Friday agreed to make joint efforts to resolve the long pending inter-state border dispute, an official statement said here.

Regional committees of Assam and Meghalaya met here on Saturday to discuss three disputed sectors along the inter-state boundary, ministers of the two states heading the panels said.

More than 1,100 people from Manipur's Jiribam district and surrounding areas have crossed the inter-state border to enter Assam's Cachar district, following violence in the neighbouring state, officials said on Saturday.

Dismissing his Assam counterpart's claim, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Tuesday asserted in the assembly that Mukroh village on the disputed inter-state border is a part of the hill state.

The body of a 40-year-old man who went missing days ago on the inter-state border between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka was found floating on the banks of River Palar on Friday in Erode district, police said.

Assam Border Protection and Development Minister Atul Bora Tuesday said that talks are going on with neighbouring states Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Mizoram to resolve inter-state boundary disputes.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council in Kolkata tomorrow where issues like security along the inter-state borders, smuggling along the India-Bangladesh border,

Assam on Sunday lifted travel restrictions to Meghalaya, six days after being imposed in the aftermath of violence in a disputed area along the inter-state border, police said.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma moved the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday over the loss of lives in firing by Assam officers at the inter-state border, calling it a "clear violation of human rights".

Assam police on Thursday foiled inter-state smuggling by intercepting a truck carrying more than two thousand kilos of contraband drugs (Ganja) near the Jorabat area, along the Assam-Meghalaya border.

Assam Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Meghalaya counterpart Conrad K Sangma on Sunday decided to start work on resolving the inter-state boundary dispute in six areas over which differences persist.

Mizoram and Assam will hold chief minister-level talks in New Delhi later this month or early September to find an amicable solution to the inter-state border dispute, according to an official statement issued here on Wednesday.

A group of people in Assam's Dhemaji district have objected to an alleged land encroachment by some residents of neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh, leading to tension in the disputed inter-state border area, police said.

Mizoram and Assam on Friday agreed to continue to promote and maintain peace along the inter-state border, as part of efforts to resolve their decades-long boundary dispute.

Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma on Tuesday said that he and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma have agreed not to allow any more violence along the disputed inter-state border.

Mizoram and Assam on Friday agreed to make joint efforts to resolve the long pending inter-state border dispute, an official statement said here.

Regional committees of Assam and Meghalaya met here on Saturday to discuss three disputed sectors along the inter-state boundary, ministers of the two states heading the panels said.

More than 1,100 people from Manipur's Jiribam district and surrounding areas have crossed the inter-state border to enter Assam's Cachar district, following violence in the neighbouring state, officials said on Saturday.

Dismissing his Assam counterpart's claim, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Tuesday asserted in the assembly that Mukroh village on the disputed inter-state border is a part of the hill state.

The body of a 40-year-old man who went missing days ago on the inter-state border between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka was found floating on the banks of River Palar on Friday in Erode district, police said.

Assam Border Protection and Development Minister Atul Bora Tuesday said that talks are going on with neighbouring states Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Mizoram to resolve inter-state boundary disputes.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council in Kolkata tomorrow where issues like security along the inter-state borders, smuggling along the India-Bangladesh border,

Assam on Sunday lifted travel restrictions to Meghalaya, six days after being imposed in the aftermath of violence in a disputed area along the inter-state border, police said.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma moved the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday over the loss of lives in firing by Assam officers at the inter-state border, calling it a "clear violation of human rights".

Assam police on Thursday foiled inter-state smuggling by intercepting a truck carrying more than two thousand kilos of contraband drugs (Ganja) near the Jorabat area, along the Assam-Meghalaya border.

Assam Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Meghalaya counterpart Conrad K Sangma on Sunday decided to start work on resolving the inter-state boundary dispute in six areas over which differences persist.

Mizoram and Assam will hold chief minister-level talks in New Delhi later this month or early September to find an amicable solution to the inter-state border dispute, according to an official statement issued here on Wednesday.

A group of people in Assam's Dhemaji district have objected to an alleged land encroachment by some residents of neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh, leading to tension in the disputed inter-state border area, police said.