Dhubri, March 10: The AGP today did yet another somersault, ruling out sharing seats with any party in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections in the state. Launching the party?s election campaign in Dhubri, party president Brindaban Goswami said the AGP would go it alone.

Goswami had earlier said the AGP would not go in for any alliance with any party but was open to seat-sharing with any like-minded party to prevent the Congress from winning.

Addressing a mammoth gathering at the historical Prabhat Chandra Baruah maidan here, Goswami made the party?s stand clear on repealing the IMDT Act, 1983...

Shillong, March 10: Four regional political parties of Meghalaya today floated the Regional Parties Alliance (RPA) and selected North Eastern Hill University mathematician S. Loniak Marbaniang as a consensus candidate for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

The parties, which are part of the Congress-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) had earlier decided not to align with the Congress but file a common candidate to contest the Shillong parliamentary seat.

The decision of the regional parties to join hands and contest the Lok Sabha elections has made the Congress wary that a combined...

Guwahati, March 10: Carrying huge and voluminous maps will be a thing of the past as it will now be available on CDs. The Assam-Nagaland Geospatial Data Centre under Survey of India here is preparing digital maps of Assam and Nagaland, which will also be available for the common people.

?Students or researchers will not have to pore over entire maps for specific information. Now, they will be able to get a CD pertaining to their area of interest,? a source said. The maps will be prepared digitally on the world geodetic system, in other words, based on land survey.

For example, if a student or...

Agartala, March 10: Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga?s efforts to bring six militant outfits to the negotiation table have triggered dissension in the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT).

Sources said the NLFT faction led by Biswamohan Debbarma has opposed the chief minister?s move and ruled in favour of continuing militant activities. This led to a clash with the pro-negotiation members of the group led by Mantu and Dhanu Koloi on February 17. Though a lot of blood was shed, the exact number of casualties is not yet known. However, a number of NLFT rebels have fled their camps in...

Kohima, March 10: The Church and most organisations in Nagaland are divided on total prohibition. At a seminar held here recently, representatives of non-governmental organisations, the Church, the excise department, media and law-enforcing agencies debated on the success of prohibition in the state.

They all admitted that the policy had failed as liquor flows freely in the state. But while many government and non-governmental organisations softened their stand, others continued to take a hard line.

Organisations like the Naga Students Federation (NSF), the Nagaland Tourism Association and...