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...

GUWAHATI, March 20— It has the animals that slither and also the ones that claw their ways up. For it is a documentary film on the reptiles— the reptiles of North-East India. This documentary film— Friends for ever: Common Reptiles of North-East India, directed and produced by Sri Dip Bhuyan, an M Sc in Statistics from Delhi University, has once again provided the documentary proof that there is no dearth of talent or lack of determination among our youths. Sri Bhuyan is associated with documentary films for the past about 11 years.

Assam or for that matter the entire NE region, has remained...

AIZAWL, March 21 — Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, who also holds the finance portfolio, presented an interim tax-free deficit annual budget for the year 2003-04 in the Assembly amounting to Rs 1380.97 crore, on Thursday, reports PTI.

The budget shows an estimated closing deficit of Rs 266.38 crore which the Chief Minister said was due to the reduction in central devolution in respect of grants-in-aid. Zoramthanga presented the supplementary demands for grants for the year 2002-03 amounting to Rs 378.72 crore and vote on accounts for four months beginning from April 2003 amounting to Rs...

KOHIMA, March 20 – The Nagaland Baptist Council of Churches (NBCC) said it had tried its best to unite various Naga underground factions by meeting their respective leaders and further disclosed that moves were on to meet the President of the Naga National Council (NNC), Adino Phizo. Speaking to NEPS here on Tuesday, Rev L Kari Longchar, Director of NBCC Peace Affairs, said the NBCC had already initiated the unity process of different underground factions by inviting them on August 9 last year here at Naga Club and further added that most of the leaders of the various factions attended the...

GUWAHATI, March 21 — During the almost two-decade-long on-and-off movement for first a separate Bodoland State then for more autonomy mainly spearheaded by the All Bodo Students Union (ABSU), education was relegated to, background on Bodo-dominated areas in the State.The harsh reality that general students from the Bodo areas of the State have lagged miles behind their counterparts in other parts has dawned on the ABSU which now have the time to look into the matter in the post Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) Accord.

Talking to The Assam Tribune, ABSU president Rabiram Brahma admitted that...