AGARTALA, July 14 ? Chief Executive Member (CEM) of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), Hirendra Tripura resigned from his post on Tuesday following corruption charges against him. Sources in his Nationalist Socialist Party of Tripura (NSPT) said Tripura submitted his resignation to the chairman of the Council, Shanti Ranjan Reang who forwarded it to Governor DN Sahaya.

On July 5, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said the State Government initiated a CID inquiry against him in connection with his involvement with a job racket in an NGO.

Sarkar said the CID would also...

GUWAHATI, July 14 ? The Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB) proposed to procure 78 per cent of its requirement from outside agencies in 2003-04. In the year it projected sale of 2,115 million units (MU) of power. In 2004-05 also it proposed to procure a similar percentage of power from outside sources.

The peak load hour demand of power in the State is 650 mega watt (MW) during summer season and 590 MW during winter season, while the off-peak hour demand of power in the State is 430 MW during the summer and 390 MW in the winter. The Board stated in its petition for rationalisation of tariff...

NEW DELHI, July 14 ? In an about turn, the Centre has claimed that an estimated 1.20 crore illegal Bangladeshi immigrants were living in the country including 50,000 in Assam. The Ministry of Home Affairs? latest estimate comes a week after Centre disclosed that some 26,000 foreign nationals were living illegally in the country. The figures given today were tallied with the estimate given by the previous Government in the report of the Group of Minister on Internal security. In the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister of State, Sriprakash Jaiswal disclosed that as on 2001, a high number of estimated 59...

Shillong, July 13: Meghalaya chief minister D.D. Lapang is in for some serious trouble with the United Democratic Party (UDP) thinking of pulling out from the Congress-led coalition. The UDP, the second largest partner in the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA), has openly expressed its dissatisfaction at the way the chief minister downsized his ministry to 12 from 41 ministers. Earlier, Congress MLAs, including outgoing home minister R.G. Lyngdoh, had also contested Lapang?s decision.

The inclusion of some first timers in place of experienced and seasoned politicians has been severely...

New Delhi, July 13: The northeastern states are primed for a whirlwind tour of ?virgin markets? worldwide, from Mongolia to Germany, to promote their unique products. The itinerary of the Indian Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) for 2004-2005 includes Northeast trade fairs in as many as five countries of Asia and Europe. The trade caravan?s first stop is Mongolia, where a five-day fair billed as ?A Slice of India in Mongolia? begins on August 30.

Separate pavilions will be allotted to Assam and Tripura. The other states will be represented through sectors that have export potential. For...