Assam Border 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.

The ZPM government in Mizoram has constituted a new boundary committee to handle issues related to the state's border dispute with neighbouring Assam, a home department official said on Friday.

A former insurgent was killed in firing by an ex-colleague over an alleged financial dispute in Assam's Cachar district. The incident took place in Jirighat near Assam-Manipur border on Tuesday evening, police sources said.

Assam and Meghalaya are on verge of finalising the actual boundary lines in the first six areas of difference as part of the ongoing process to resolve border disputes, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma and Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

More than 82,000 hectares of Assam territory has been encroached by four of its neighbouring states, Border Protection and Development Minister Atul Bora said in the Assembly on Wednesday.

A village in Arunachal Pradesh's Lower Siang district has become a part of Assam in a proposal to resolve the decades-long boundary dispute between the two northeastern neighbours, and the villagers are not happy.

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.

The second phase of talks to resolve Assam-Meghalaya border dispute in the remaining six 'areas of difference' began on Wednesday with a Chief Ministerial-level talk at Guwahati's state guest house in Koinadhara here.

The chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya will meet here on Wednesday to carry forward discussions on resolving border disputes in the remaining six areas.

Assam and Nagaland Chief Ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Neiphiu Rio have agreed in principle to go ahead with oil exploration in areas along their disputed boundary for the economic benefit of both states.

The Assam and the Arunachal Pradesh governments on Thursday signed an agreement in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah here to resolve their decades-old border disputes.

Ministers and top officials of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh attended a meeting in Guwahatito discuss the border disputes between the two neighbours.

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.

In a development that might kindle a new controversy over interstate borders between Assam and Meghalaya, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a reply in the assembly said the disputed Mukroh village falls under the state's jurisdiction.

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.

The ZPM government in Mizoram has constituted a new boundary committee to handle issues related to the state's border dispute with neighbouring Assam, a home department official said on Friday.

A former insurgent was killed in firing by an ex-colleague over an alleged financial dispute in Assam's Cachar district. The incident took place in Jirighat near Assam-Manipur border on Tuesday evening, police sources said.

Assam and Meghalaya are on verge of finalising the actual boundary lines in the first six areas of difference as part of the ongoing process to resolve border disputes, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma and Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

More than 82,000 hectares of Assam territory has been encroached by four of its neighbouring states, Border Protection and Development Minister Atul Bora said in the Assembly on Wednesday.

A village in Arunachal Pradesh's Lower Siang district has become a part of Assam in a proposal to resolve the decades-long boundary dispute between the two northeastern neighbours, and the villagers are not happy.

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.

The second phase of talks to resolve Assam-Meghalaya border dispute in the remaining six 'areas of difference' began on Wednesday with a Chief Ministerial-level talk at Guwahati's state guest house in Koinadhara here.

The chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya will meet here on Wednesday to carry forward discussions on resolving border disputes in the remaining six areas.

Assam and Nagaland Chief Ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Neiphiu Rio have agreed in principle to go ahead with oil exploration in areas along their disputed boundary for the economic benefit of both states.

The Assam and the Arunachal Pradesh governments on Thursday signed an agreement in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah here to resolve their decades-old border disputes.

Ministers and top officials of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh attended a meeting in Guwahatito discuss the border disputes between the two neighbours.

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.

In a development that might kindle a new controversy over interstate borders between Assam and Meghalaya, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a reply in the assembly said the disputed Mukroh village falls under the state's jurisdiction.