Aizawl, Feb. 11: The rebel faction of the Mizoram People?s Conference (MPC) yesterday convened a meeting at a hotel here to discuss ways to overthrow the MPC president.

Sources said the faction, led by MPC vice-president Zairemthanga, formulated a plan to overthrow present president Lalhmingthanga during the party elections on February 25 and 26.

The faction also decided to put up former MLA Col. Lalchungnunga for the post of president, Kenneth Chawngliana as vice-president and Lalthanzauva Pudaite, retired IFS officer, as treasurer.

The sources said the rebel faction had, for long, wanted to...

GUWAHATI, Feb 11? The meaning of the texts of the Kanaibarasibowa rock inscriptions at North Guwahati have been deciphered through epigraphic study. State Museum?s Assistant Curator Sarhajuddin Ahmed, who is a noted epigraphy expert, deciphered the meaning of the texts following formal requests from the Archaeology Directorate.

The deciphering of the inscriptions has helped recording the evidence of a chapter of the State?s glory. This glory is related to the military might of the State?s people and their victory over the invading military generals several hundred years back. The text of the...

MANGALDAI, Feb 11 ? With the participation of more than 10,000 delegates coming from different parts of the State as well as the delegates from Orissa, the 73rd annual conference of Srimanta Sankardeva Sangha got under way today with a four-day long programme at Lechakonia Gobinda Atoi Kshetra at Pakabangipara near here. The presence of the devotees numbering about 20,000, has turned the conference ground into a holy pilgrimage as some of the enthusiastic devotees arrived there on foot.

Sri Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa, Chief Secretary to the Government of Assam, who also came into limelight in the...

GUWAHATI, Feb 11 ? After a series of discussions and negotiations during the last one month, noted construction company Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has agreed to take the responsibility of construction works of the stadiums for the forthcoming National Games to be organised by the State in November 2005.

L&T has taken up the works at a cost of Rs 139, 45, 66, 938, which is over Rs one crore lower than their lone opponent Nagarjuna. The agreement was made last evening and the Chief Minister also approved it. As per the agreement, the organisers of the National Games have to pay 15 pc of the total...

Dimapur, Feb. 10: Sidelined for years after a faction of the Naga National Council signed the Shillong Accord in 1975, the oldest Naga underground organisation is trying to reinvent itself as a force to reckon with.

It is spearheading a movement to achieve reconciliation among Naga underground and overground groups. To achieve this end, the NNC is holding a pan-Naga meet at Wokha on February 18.

The NNC today made it mandatory for all its activists and leaders of regional authorities to attend the General Meeting on Reconciliation at Wokha (NNC?s Lotha region). It said the meeting would be...