Shillong, Jan. 25: Hundreds of mobile phone subscribers in the city have threatened to expose an alleged attempt by the Reliance Telecom Limited?s Shillong chapter to ?dupe and exploit the consumer?. The proposed switch-over from the existing pre-paid (smart card users) mobile system to the post-paid system, as has been announced by the Reliance Telecom Limited?s Shillong office, has met with opposition.

While the mobile service providers claim that the decision to change over from the pre-paid to the post-paid was based on a directive from the Union ministry of communications, subscribers...

Nagaon, Jan. 24: In a move that could widen the ethnic divide in violence-hit Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills districts of Assam, the Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC) today scrapped a crucial pact with the Kuki National Assembly (KNA).

One of the main clauses of the memorandum of understanding signed between the ASDC and the KNA on December 4, 2000 promises a hill council for the indigenous Kukis residing in Singhasan Hills in Karbi Anglong. The ASDC is spearheading a campaign for an autonomous Karbi state in the district.

Making the announcement about the abrogation of ?all the...

Imphal, Jan. 24: The Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA) today issued a no-trust notice to Manipur Speaker T.N. Haokip on the basis of allegations by the prime suspect in the Lungnila Elizabeth murder case that he was among the conspirators in the killing of the eight-year-old girl.

James Kuki alias Letsei Haokip, the suspect captured by the NSCN (Isak-Muivah) from Dimapur this month, had alleged that the Speaker, PWD minister Gaikhangam and tribal development minister Ngamthang Haokip were involved in the murder of Elizabeth, daughter of taxation minister Francis Ngajokpa. He had allegedly...

Guwahati, Jan. 23: A day after the bickering factions of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) called a poll-necessitated truce, former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta formally put his hand up for the party top job to set at rest speculation about whether he had shelved his comeback plans.

The AGP?s in-house election will be conducted at the three-day triennial Tezpur conference of the party, beginning January 28.

Mahanta?s announcement, made during a news conference at his official residence here this morning, virtually ruled out a rapprochement between the warring AGP groups, one led by him and...

Guwahati, Jan. 23: Retired Karnataka cadre Mizo IPS H.T. Sangliana has joined the BJP and is likely to contest the ensuing Lok Sabha polls from Karnataka. A senior Assam BJP leader said here today that Sangliana joined the party in New Delhi yesterday in the presence of party president Venkaiah Naidu.

He said though Sangliana would work for the party in Karnataka, his decision to join the BJP would inspire several others to join the party in his home state of Mizoram.

A 1967 batch IPS officer, Sangliana headed the high-profile Special Task Force to hunt down forest brigand Veerappan at his...