Aizawl, March 8: The Young Mizo Association (YMA) has served non-Mizos staying in Mizoram without proper authorisation with an ultimatum to leave the state by April 7. The association has also urged the Mizos not to encourage the non-Mizos to stay in the state by doing business with them or employing them for work that is not stipulated in their inner-line permits.

A statement issued by the central executive committee of the YMA said the ultimatum was issued to pursue its 2004 objective to ?safeguard the land and its people?.

Justifying the ultimatum, the organisation said the non-Mizos had...

Shillong, March 8: Now Shillongites can take a trip down the art lane, tippling their favourite drink at the same time. The ?happening? Centre Point Hotel?s Cloud Nine lounge bar today has more than one reason to attract the connoisseurs of art.

An art gallery, inaugurated on Saturday on the Cloud Nine premises, promises a little for now and a lot more in the days to come. Budding painters Rachel Wall, Reginald Rani and Tania Das got a much-needed break when their murals drew art connoisseurs by the dozen on the inaugural night of the studio. The gallery aims to promote young and upcoming...

Agartala, March 8: At a time when the National Democratic Alliance is flooded with star entrants at the national level, the formation in Tripura continues to be beleaguered by feuds among its five constituents.

Comprising only the BJP and Trinamul Congress in the beginning, the state unit of the NDA had posed a major challenge to the Congress, the main Opposition here, in the 1999 Lok Sabha polls. However, subsequent elections witnessed a downslide in the fortune of the BJP and the Trinamul, so much so that in the last Assembly elections they ended up losing security deposits in all seats.

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Guwahati, March 7: The Assam government will soon set up trade offices of the neighbouring countries here. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi said this during an interaction with the foreign participants today ? the concluding day of the 11th International Guwahati Trade Fair at the Judges Field.

?We want to develop trade ties with the South East Asian countries. This will help promote trade and commerce and develop contacts with the traders of these countries,? Gogoi said.

After a t?te-?-t?te with them, the chief minister, accompanied by his wife, went on a whirlwind tour of all the foreign stalls...

Imphal, March 7: The 100-km long Jiribam-Tupul broadgauge railway line will be completed within five years. Disclosing this at a news conference here on Friday evening, Vipan Nanda, general manager, Northeast Frontier Railway, said the time schedule can be maintained only if militants do not disturb the ongoing work.

The estimated cost of the project at current price is Rs 7,300 crore.

Nanda said the Indian Railways project linking Jiribam and Tupul, has been sanctioned and all work to execute the project is in their final stages. Acquisition of land and distribution of compensation to...