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...

New Delhi, June 13: The activities of a little known insurgent outfit have raised the hackles of the Arunachal Pradesh government. The Centre has been apprised and requested to provide assistance to rein in the rebels.

Government sources allege that the Arunachal Dragon Force, which emerged about three years ago, has spread its network and is trying to forge a link between the Northeast insurgent groups and foreign agencies.

?This organisation has been seeking for a long time to establish a link between the various insurgent groups in the region and China. We have definite information on...

TURA, May 12 ? Unabated influx from across Bangladesh and neighbouring Assam is threatening the very existence of the Garo people residing in the plain belt areas of West Hills. The issue continues to be sensitive and very little is being done by the government to check this menace that threatens to change the demography of the region. The vast porous border coupled with seasonal floods adds to this influx. The continuous influx can be realised from the last Population Census in which areas of Muslim settlers had dramatic increase in their population. In some areas the population had...

Guwahati, June 12: The Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) government will complete 100 days in office tomorrow, but dissent within the coalition continues to simmer.

As the government prepares a grand celebration in the state capital Kohima, some senior ministers appear peeved over being marginalised.

They are reportedly contemplating a written complaint to the Central leadership about chief minister Neiphiu Rio?s style of functioning.

A BJP minister from the state today said the largest constituent of the ruling coalition ? the Nagaland People?s Front (npf) ? was undermining the interest...

Shillong, June 11: Meghalaya has been identified as one of the seven states in the country where intensive research on medicinal plants will be taken up by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in association with the Meghalaya government.

The convenor of the state-level planning committee on conservation and sustainable utilisation of medicinal plants, B. Kharbuli, said that a draft proposal on the initiatives has already been prepared. It was presented to chief minister D.D. Lapang during a meeting of the state-level planning committee yesterday.

Kharbuli said the project on...