KOHIMA, March 2 – Nagaland Speaker Z Lohe, Deputy Speaker Joshua, prominent sitting Ministers and Congress candidates Imtisungit Jamir, Neiba Ndang, Nillo Rengma, Kakheto, SK Sangtam, P Enyie, Kiyezhe Aye, Zachilhu Vadeo and NDM candidate and former Chief Minister KL Chishi were some of the prominent losers in the 10th Nagaland assembly election while Congress candidates and sitting Ministers TR Zeliang, T Tali and H Chuba were some of the prominent winners.

Several former regional political stalwarts and candidates of main opposition Nagaland People’s Front (NPF) had come back by defeating...

SHILLONG, March 2 – Deputy Chief Minister D D Lapang accompanied by Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC), President S C Marak staked claim to form a new Congress-led coalition government in the State before the Governor M M Jacab here this evening. A beaming Lapang told newsmen at the Raj Bhawan soon after meeting the Governor that he had submitted ‘letters of suport’ from United Democratic Party (UDP), and the Meghalaya Democratic Party (MDP), which have 9 and 4 members respectively, to Jacob.

Three independents are also supporting the Congress taking the strength of the newly...

GUWAHATI, March 2 — The signing of the Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) by the Union and State Governments with the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) may not bring back the long-awaited peace and normalcy to the proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) areas. While the militants of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) have denounced the MoS as the product of the BLT’s “capitulation” in matters of principle and ideology, the Sanmilita Janaosthiya Sangram Samiti (SJSS), representing over 20 organisations of the non-Bodos living in the BTC areas, has rejected the MoS as “one-sided”, burnt...

KOHIMA, March 2 — The Democratic Alliance of Nagaland is all set to form a coalition government in the state having received the support of four Independent MLAs,which take their strength to 33 in the 60-member House, reports PTI. Announcing this at a press conference here today, the Nagaland People’s Front, leading constituent of the DAN, spokesman, K Therie, said that the four Independent MLAs had given their written support, thus enabling them to form the government.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister, S C Jamir, said that he had accepted the verdict of the people and would submit his...

AGARTALA, March 2 – The result of assembly elections in Tripura has made it clear that people of the state did not accept the Congress-Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) alliance, allegedly backed by the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura. The ruling Left Front has returned to power with two third majority securing 40 seats in the 60-member assembly while the opposition Congress-INPT secured only 19. The result of Juvarajnagar seat is withheld as repolling has been ordered in one booth due to problems in one EVM.

“It was a blunder for us to forge an alliance with INPT...