Guwahati, March 3: The strategy group of the Unified Command has recommended the formation of a crack police team for Guwahati to counter insurgents.

The recommendation came after a meeting of the Unified Command’s strategy group today which was chaired by chief secretary P.K. Dutta and attended by top security officials, including state director-general of police Hare Krishna Deka and the GOC of Red Horns division Maj. Gen. Gaganjit Singh.

Drawn up on the lines of the Rapid Action Force, the crack team will be ready to move out “within minutes” of a rebel strike. The squad will also carry out...

AIZAWL, March 1 ? The Mizoram state Assembly Speaker R. Vanlal Awia has denied having any foreknowledge of the Delimitation Commission?s proposed re-organisation of the state?s Assembly constituencies as insinuated by a local daily. The vernacular daily published a letter the Speaker had sent to the Delimitation Commission (DC) Chairman, Justice Kuldip Singh in which the Speaker had stated his desire for Hmunzawl village in the Lungpho constituency to be placed in N Vanlaiphai constituency, which is the Speaker?s constituency. The letter was dated February 13, 2003.

Awia denied having any...

AGARTALA, March 1 ? Tripura Governor, Lt. Gen (Retd) K M Seth dissolved the Tripura Assembly to avert a constitutional crisis. The Governor issued the notification in this regard on Saturday since the dissolution of the Assembly became necessary as the gap between the period of the last and the next sessions would go beond six months after March 4, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar told reporters.

Sarkar said ?six months? time will be completed on March 4 and there is no scope of forming ministry before March 4, so he dissolved the Assembly.? The election to the 60-member House in Tripura was...

TEZPUR, March 1 ? The 106-year-old Tezpur railway station in Assam?s Sonitpur district built by the British is in dilapidated state, lying virtually abandoned thanks to the neglect by the authorities. The station, situated on the banks of the river Brahmaputra at Old Steamerghat, is a victim of severe erosion and the existing buildings of the staff are in bad shape due to neglect for at least three decades by the railway authorities, the locals say.

The chief public relation officer of the North-east Frontier railway, Leena Sharma, however denies there was a callous attitude on the part of...

KOHIMA, March 1 – Nagaland is heading for a fractured mandate in the Assembly elections with the Congress and the Nagaland People's Front running neck and neck with 42 results declared so far, reports PTI. Out of 41 seats, the Congress won 15 and NPF 14 while the BJP got five.

From the available trend, it is almost certain that no single party may cross the 25-seat mark in the 60-member House. The real surprise is the BJP's performance which so far bagged five seats including the prestigious Dimapur-1 constituency from where its candidate and former state chief minister, Hokishe Sema won...