Agartala, March 16: The 13 newly-elected Congress legislators in Tripura will participate in the opening session of the Assembly without a legislature party leader. The leader of the Opposition in the last Assembly, Jawhar Saha, failed to make the cut in the just-concluded elections. In the present set up, there are at least four contenders for the post of legislature party leader. They are former chief minister and leader of the Opposition Samir Ranjan Barman, Dipak Roy, Sudip Roy-Barman and former PCC president Gopal Roy.

Sources said Samir Ranjan Barman was the front-runner for the post...

SILCHAR, March 16 – The militant outfit Dima Halom Daoga (DHD) today set a deadline of a week to the NSCN(IM) to release their kidnapped cadres. In a fax message to the local media here, the DHD publicity secretary Daoraja Dimasa alleged that the NSCN(IM) had kidnapped the cadres to disrupt the ongoing peace process between the Centre and the outfit.

GUWAHATI, March 16— At least six persons were killed and several dozens more were injured, 12 of them seriously, this afternoon when the banned ULFA detonated a powerful remote-controlled improvised explosive device (IED) at Bamunghopa, under Goalpara police station in lower Assam. The ULFA, observing its ‘Sainik Divas’ today, drew the blood of innocent civilians while targeting a CRPF van coming from Bangaigaon towards Guwahati. The civilians were passengers of a private bus (AMP 893) on its way to Baguwan from Goalpara. The blast was triggered at about 4 pm on National Highway-37 when the...

NEW DELHI, March 16— The Government has undertaken six All India Radio projects to expand the existing network in north-eastern States, especially in Assam.

This was stated by the Minister of Information & Broadcasting, Ravi Shankar Prasad in reply to a question by Dr Jayanta Rongpi in Lok Sabha recently.

Elaborating, the minister said the AIR projects are of Jorhat, Silchar, Karimganj, Lumding, Goalpara and Guwahati. He said the work undertaken at Guwahati includes upgradation of existing uplink facility to digital mode while the proposed FM transmitter at Lumding will cover some of the...

AIZAWL, March 16 — Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, who has been involved in the Naga peace process, today said that the NSCN(I-M) leaders might come to Aizawl from Bangkok to hold talks with him. Talking to reporters at his official residence here, Zoramthanga, who has just returned from Bangkok after holding talks with Naga rebel leaders and some of North-east insurgent groups, said that there was a likelihood of the NSCN leaders meeting him in Aizawl. Commenting his latest meeting with NSCN(I-M) leaders, including its chairman Issac Chishi Swu in Bangkok, he said, “I thought this was the...