SHILLONG, May 25 ? National Hydro-electric Power Corporation Ltd (NHPC) has got outstanding dues of nearly Rs 100 crore upto April this year against seven north eastern states ? beneficiaries of the Loktak Hydel Project - with Manipur topping the list, according to the North Eastern Regional Electricity Board (NEREB), reports PTI.

The outstanding dues included the principal amount surcharge on it, development surcharge, according to a NEREB statement released at its 52nd board meeting here last week. While Manipur topped the list with an accumulated outstanding amount of Rs 43.82 crore, it...

GUWAHATI, May 25 ? The Assam forest department today claimed to have busted a gang of poachers with the arrest of three persons, who had killed two rhinos and decamped with its invaluable horn from Pabitora wildlife sanctuary near here on Friday last. Within 36-hrs of the electrocution of the two rhinos, the gang was nabbed jointly by the forest department authroties and the police, forest minister Pradyut Bordoloi told PTI here.

Guwahati, May 25: The NSCN (I-M) today threatened to go in for a referendum on its demand for the integration of Naga-inhabited areas of the Northeast if the Centre continued to be indecisive on the issue.

The organisation announced its stand after the talks between its leadership and the Centre?s chief interlocutor, K. Padmanabhaiah, again ended in a deadlock. The meeting was held in Bangkok.

NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chisi Swu and general secretary Th. Muivah were unavailable for comment, but a source in the Thai capital confirmed that the duo held firm on the issue of integrating Naga...

BANGKOK, May 25 ? Unification of the Naga territories is standing in the way of a final solution to the peace process, NSCN (IM) chief Thuingaleng Muivah said here emphasising ?the Nagas will never lay down arms, freedom or territories.? ?At the moment the crux of the issue is unification. If the government can understand our issue, we don?t need to hurt them. If they refuse to understand us, the question of referendum will come,? Muivah, told PTI in an interview here.

?Eighty per cent of the Nagas supported the peace process today,? he claimed. Muivah and K Padmanabhaiah, special envoy of...

Aizawl, May 25: The Congress in Mizoram is facing a major embarrassment with former party general secretary M.C. Lalrinthanga coming out with an insiders? account of the state unit in a book scheduled to hit the stands soon.

Lalrinthanga, a former Congress leader who was expelled some years ago for his opposition to Mizo strongman Lalthanhawla, said he is ready to release his book ? Mizoram eiruk thubuai lian ber (Mizoram?s Biggest Corruption Case) involving the PCC president and former chief minister.

The book?s release, Congress sources said, may come in handy for the Opposition to put the...