GUWAHATI, Feb 18 ? The state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will have the first meeting of its election committee on March 2 to finalise the list of probable candidates for the 14 Lok Sabha seats in the Assam. The list will be sent to the central election committee of the party, which will meet between March 10 and 15, for the finalisation of the candidates.

The party, in all likelihood, will renominate its two sitting MPs in the state, Bijoya Chakravarty and Rajen Gohain in Guwahati and Nagaon constituencies respectively. ?Our normal convention is not to disturb the sitting MPs,? said party...

Aizawl, Feb. 18: The rebel factions in the Mizoram Congress and the Mizoram People?s Conference (MPC) have both demanded a change in leadership. Sources in the Mizoram PCC said at a meeting held here last week, the rebel leaders asked state Congress president Lalthanhawla to resign.

Members of the MPC political affairs committee also asked their party president, Lalhmingthanga, to step down from the post. However, the two presidents have refused to tender their resignation, saying that they would do so only if the party cadre wanted them to.

Both Lalthanhawla and Lalhmingthanga were away when...

Shillong, Feb. 18: Sightseeing in the Northeast is set to get a facelift with several central and state government agencies joining hands to link conventional tourism with the newest form of tourism, geo-tourism.

The Geological Survey of India, Meghalaya State Electricity Board, North Eastern Power Corporation Ltd and directorate of tourism, Meghalaya, will work together to identify suitable sites for geological monuments.

?The idea is to survey sites of geological importance, which are found in abundance in the Northeast, and link them to conventional or what we call scenic tourism in these...

ITANAGAR, Feb 17 ?Arunachal Pradesh Assembly unanimously adopted a government resolution for inclusion of the State in the Sixth Schedule so as to enable it to create Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) in militant-dominated Tirap and Chanlang districts, besides Tawang and West Kameng districts affected by 1962 Chinese aggression.

The resolution was moved on Monday by Home Minister L Wanglat who said the ADCs would have special status and all districts could benefit from it.

?Under the 1945 regulation we will be given absolute power and lot of problems facing the state would be solved,? he...

TURA, Feb 17? The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) of former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma suffered a major setback when it failed to form the next executive committee of the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC), losing to rival Congress that got the required numbers with support from regional party UDP and Independents.

The decision of the three United Democratic Party MDCs and four Independents to support Congress took the total strength of the group to 18 MDCs, two more than the required number for a simple majority. Both NCP and Congress failed to get a simple majority in the...