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MOREH, March 22 – Though, the Centre has given the go ahead for promotion of Indo-Myanmar bilateral trade and agreed in principle for construction of a Food and Civil Supply godown at Moreh, India’s gateway to the south east Asian countries, the cash strapped Manipur government is unable to translate it into action.

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs had sanctioned Rs 58 lakh to construct a 1250 metric ton capacity Food and Civil Supply godown at Moreh of which 50 per cent is in the form of subsidy while the rest is in the form of a loan. However, the Centre released only Rs 35 lakh after...

IMPHAL, March 21 — Former speaker of the lok sabha and general secretary of the nationalist Congress Party (ncp) Purno A Sangma has given the green signal to end the internal conflict in the ncp state unit. He also said that a central observers team will be sent to Manipur within this month to sort out the ongoing row between two factions of the party in the wake of it’s “controversial” state unit office bearer election that lead to the locking of the NCP state unit office here since February.

The indication to send party observers was conveyed to N Radhakanta,a leader of the NCP who fought...

Shillong, March 21: The sacrifice of a leopard in Nongtaleng village of Jaintia Hills district today has brought a minister in the D.D. Lapang government as well as an entire community under a cloud. The forest department is probing the incident.

Residents of Nongtalang, 17 km from Dawki and 3 km from the Bangladesh border, sacrificed the leopard (Felis Bengalensis), a rare and endangered species according to Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, to celebrate Rong Khli or Shad Khla (festival of tiger). The festival, which was held after 10 years, is celebrated by believers of Niam Tynrai...

Agartala, March 21: The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) today unanimously elected Ratanlal Nath as leader of the Tripura Opposition and formally introduced him to the House on the second day of the opening session of the Assembly.

AICC general secretaries Mani Shankar Aiyar and Mukul Wasnik, who arrived here on Wednesday, held talks with the 13 Congress legislators of the party over the past two days.

PCC president Birajit Sinha and former chief minister Samir Ranjan Barman, who was also a contender for the post, accompanied Nath to Speaker Ramendra Debnath before the Assembly session today...

Kohima, March 21: The Khaplang faction of the NSCN today clarified that it had not received any fresh feelers for parleys from New Delhi, as reported in the media, though it has been receiving such proposals since the Nineties.

Deputy kilonser of the outfit Kughalu Mulatonu told The Telegraph that despite the willingness of leaders of both the factions of the NSCN (Isak-Muivah and Khaplang) to begin talks on unity, the issue was in the dock because of “some people in Dimapur”.

“Some people do not want us to unite despite willingness on part of the collective leadership. These are the anti...