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Imphal, January 30: The Khaplang faction of the NSCN is all set to hold political dialogue with the Government of India by August this year. Well-placed sources close to the NSCN (K) supremo SS Khaplang disclosed to the Network .that if everything goes well, Khaplang and his aides would start political dialogue even before August this year. The source said that the leaders of the Khaplang group including the cabinet ministers and high ranking officials of the underground government are now holding intensive and extensive discussion to chalk out strategies for the dialogue at one of the base...

Guwahati, Jan. 30: The North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (Neepco) has once again threatened to regulate power supply to state governments of the region for failing to clear their outstanding dues.

A Neepco communiqu? issued by L.A. Kharmawphlang, assistant manager (public relations), said the situation has come to such a pass that the corporation is finding it difficult to run its power stations and continue uninterrupted supply of power. ?We will be compelled to regulate power supply to the defaulting states,? the corporation said.

The total outstanding dues of the...

Guwahati, Jan. 30: On a cold January morning, some fishermen in Goalpara came up with a catch which they had never seen nor heard of: a deep-sea rayfish from the depths of the Brahmaputra.

The discovery of the rayfish in freshwater has prompted the state zoo authorities to launch a project to study its journey from the deep seas to the Brahmaputra.

The zoo authorities have made arrangements to display the rare fish. Visitors thronging the zoo are making a beeline for the enclosure housing the fish ? albeit long dead ? to get a glimpse of the marine specimen weighing 150 kg with a body span of...

Agartala, Jan. 30: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is all set to play a significant role in the coming Assembly elections in Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland.

The party will contest all 60 seats in Meghalaya, seven in Nagaland and in 16 of the 60 seats in Tripura.

In Tripura, the party has got a boost with four senior leaders of the Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura joining the NCP today.

Announcing this at a news conference here, NCP general secretary P.A. Sangma today said in the ensuing elections in Nagaland, the NCP would support the Nagaland People?s Front (NPF) against the...

Shillong, Jan. 30: The hostage has returned, but his ordeal has exacted a heavy price from him physically and emotionally.

East Garo Hills district health and medical officer Prakash Bezbaruah, who was released yesterday at 12.30 pm by militants of the A?chik National Volunteers? Council (ANVC), is in poor health. He expressed his wish to spend more time with his family. He was abducted on December 19 while on his way home in Williamnagar.

A diabetic, Bezbaruah today said over phone, ?I am all right though physically and mentally I?m weak and I want to take rest.?

Speaking to The Telegraph...