Imphal, June 26: With the exception of Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh all the SPF Council of Minister are likely to tender resignation from their respective portfolios on July 4 to facilitate Ministry down-sizing exercise. Including the Chief Minister the Ministerial strength of the SPF Government is 33. According to New Delhi Manipur Bhavan press source the CM along with his Ministerial colleagues currently at the national capital are likely to return to Imphal on June 29 or 30. Only the final touches like consent of the All India Congress Committee President Sonia Gandhi remain for the July 7...

Guwahati, June 26: The countdown to the downsizing of the Tarun Gogoi ministry in Assam has begun. Fifteen ministers put in their papers today, following a request by the chief minister last night to his ministry to resign en masse before he leaves for New Delhi on Monday. He will finalise his new team in consultation with the Congress high command there.

A source in the chief minister’s office said till late evening 15 ministers had tendered their resignation, some of them by fax. The whole process is likely to be completed before Gogoi leaves for New Delhi by a 4 pm flight on Monday, he...

Agartala, June 26: The ruling Left Front’s move to downsize the 18-member council of ministers in Tripura to 12 has encountered a hurdle with the CPI, a constituent of the Front, refusing to withdraw its lone representative from the government. At a meeting of the state unit of the CPM, the leaders unanimously decided to relieve five of the party’s ministers to comply with the 97th Amendment.

Later, at a meeting of the Left Front, the CPM requested the CPI to withdraw minister for primitive group programme Manindra Reang from the cabinet. However, secretary of the CPI’s state unit Prashanta...

SHILLONG, June 26 : Faced with the task of downsizing their jumbo ministries, chief ministers of the north eastern states are planning to approach the Centre for raising the size of the Cabinet, reports PTI. Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang, also the chairman of the North-Eastern Congress Coordination Committee, said on Friday that his counterparts from Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam were ‘sharing’ views for taking up the matter with the Centre.

“Nagaland Chief Minister contacted me today and it has been the same with Arunachal Pradesh. We also discussed the matter with Tarun Gogoi...

KOHIMA, June 26 – Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has said his government was for an out-of-court settlement of the prolonged dispute over demarcation of inter-state boundary lines with Assam in a spirit of ‘give and take,’ reports PTI. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had announced that the issue must be settled by the Supreme Court, but “my government is for resolving the matter amicably in a spirit of give and take outside the court,” Rio told the state Assembly on Saturday. He said the Assam government filed a petition in the apex court in 1988 seeking a settlement to the vexed issue...