SHILLONG, June 13? Chief Minister D D Lapang Thursday said that his Congress-led coalition Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government would invoke the provisions of POTA if necessary to deter unauthorised liaisoning by politicians with banned militant groups in the State, reports PTI.

Stating that his government was aware of a nexus between politicians and militants, Lapang told a press conference after a Cabinet meeting that politicians in the State who liasioned with ultras without specific authorisation were liable to be prosecuted.

?The police are investigating these activities and...

Silchar, June 13: After weeks of acrimony and bloodbath, the warring Dimasa and Hmar tribes tonight signed an accord to revive their friendship and help the administration restore peace in North Cachar Hills district of Assam.

Health minister Bhumidhar Barman, who is leading a Cabinet fact-finding team to the strife-torn district, brokered the accord between the Hmar Inpi and the Dimasa Zadike. Sources said president of the Hmar Inpi, Nubak Thanga Hmar, and his counterpart in the Dimasa organisation, Gunin Langthasa, signed the agreement at the Haflong Circuit House.

Before the accord, the...

Dibrugarh/Guwahati, June 13: Showing no sign of repentance, the seven labourers who yesterday lynched a tea executive in Dibrugarh district have accused the managerial staff of ?oppression and injustice? reminiscent of colonial times.

With the mood of the labour community being defiant and payment of bonus ? always a thorny issue ? due three months from now, tea executives across Assam are bracing for more tense moments.

Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has constituted co-ordination committees at the district level to take up tea garden-related issues. The divisional commissioner of each region will...

Imphal, June 13: A senior Cabinet minister in the Okram Ibobi Singh government has been accused of giving away a government vehicle to an insurgent leader.

This revelation has come in the wake of the Cabinet?s decision to ask the CBI to investigate allegations of involvement of ministers in the abduction and murder of city trader Manoj Kumar Shethi.

The Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA) has accused power minister Phungzathang Tonsing of giving away a Maruti Gypsy of the electricity department along with cash to the tune of Rs 2.6 lakh to a self-styled ?Captain? of the outfit without informing the...

Shillong, June 13: Meghalaya police today said former minister Adolph Lu Hitler Marak would be arrested on the charge of ?harbouring militants?.

Marak, a minister in the previous E.K. Mawlong government, had been on the police watchlist for several years, a senior police officer said. The police had recently arrested two Achik National Volunteers Council members and another resident of Mizoram travelling in a government pool car, which had been allotted to Marak when he was minister.

The police official today said the former minister has made several contradictory statements which have given...