GUWAHATI, May 19 – Not many are aware that the permanent address of Congress leader Manmohan Singh, who is likely to be the next Prime Minister, is in a quiet locality of this north eastern state capital, reports PTI. The address is House No. 3989, Nandan Nagar, Ward Number 51, Sarumataria, Dispur, Guwahati - 781006, Assam.

The double storeyed building in an uptown residential area approachable through the lanes of Sarumataria belongs to former Chief Minister late Hiteswar Saikia, whose wife and state Sericulture Minister Hemoprova Saikia now reside in it. The house wears no particular busy...

Aizawl, May 18: Leaders of various Mizo organisations today made a case for strengthening the inner-line permit system, which regulates the entry of visitors, and lessening the state’s dependence on labourers from outside the state. The statements were made at street-corner rallies during the course of a peaceful procession taken out by Mizoram’s apex organisation of students, the Mizo Zirlai Pawl, to mourn the murder of a tribal girl last week.

The victim, R. Lalremsiami, was reported missing on Thursday and found murdered two days later. Two non-tribal labourers were implicated in the crime...

IMPHAL, May 18 – Troops of 13 Assam Rifles based in Chandel district under the supervision of Brigadier R N Bhattacharjee, commander of 10 Sector seized a huge quantity of materials belonging to an underground outfit operating in the State.

The seizure of the underground material took place during a search operation conducted by the troops of the 13 Assam Rifles in and around the Phuchong village in Chandel district bordering Myanmar on Sunday, a late report of Press Information Bureau (Defence Wing) said here today.

The statement of the PIB further stated that the search operation...

GUWAHATI, May 18 – Celebrated thespian Girish Chowdhury passed away at his Ulubari home at 9-20 am today. Chowdhury, among the pioneers of co-acting on stage in the State, was also at the forefront of popularising stage drama in the State for well over four decades. He had been suffering from old-age ailments for some time and was discharged from the Guwahati Medical College Hospital only yesterday. He was 83.

Chowdhury dedicated his whole life towards the uplift of drama and left his indelible imprint by playing the lead role in about a hundred stage plays. He used to act with ?lan in films...

Kohima, May 17: Nagaland PCC president S.C. Jamir has stalled the plans of chief minister Neiphiu Rio of supporting the Congress-led government at the Centre. Speaking over phone from New Delhi, former chief minister Jamir said Rio and his allies would not be allowed to join the Congress. “They are from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and were supporting the fundamentalists. How can they join the Congress?” he asked.

After the defeat of the BJP-led NDA in the general election, the Northeast People’s Forum (NEPF) with Rio as its convener has decided to chalk out a strategy for the...