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Imphal, Jan. 29: Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga?s demand for a boundary commission for the Northeast and merger of Mizo-inhabited areas of Manipur to his state has evoked sharp reactions from the Democratic People?s Party (DPP) and All-Manipur United Clubs? Organisation (Amuco).

Zoramthanga was quoted as having said at a news conference in Aizawl on Monday that he would urge the Centre to constitute a boundary commission for settling border disputes in the Northeast.

States carved out of Assam have boundary disputes with either Assam or other neighbouring states, Zoramthanga was quoted as...

IMPHAL, Jan 29 ? As announced earlier, mass protest rallies under the banner of the Committee Against Tipaimukh Dam taken out simultaneously at Tamenglong Headquarters, Nungba and Luangmai (Noney) recently denounced the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Government of Manipur and the North East Electrical Power Corporation (NEEPCO) for construction of the Hydro Electrical Project at Tipaimukh along Manipur-Mizoram border.

Nearly 650 villagers including school students, non-Manipuri shopkeepers took part in the rally held at Luangmai (Noney). Carrying placards and banners...

GUWAHATI, Jan 28 ? Air connectivity in the North-east is all set to receive a big boost with the induction of four ATR-42 aircraft by Alliance Air, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indian Airlines. While two ATR-42 aircraft have already been pressed into service since last December, two more will join the Alliance Air fleet by end of March.

With all the four aircraft in operation, flights between Kolkata-Dimapur, Kolkata-Aizawl, Guwahati-Agartala, Guwahati-Lilabari, Guwahati-Silchar, Guwahati-Imphal, Silchar-Imphal, Guwahati-Aizawl, Guwahati-Dimapur and Silchar-Agartala will be a daily affair...

Guwahati, Jan. 29: In a move sure to raise the hackles of the NSCN (I-M), the Dima Halam Daoga (DHD) has launched a campaign to garner support for the inclusion of Dimapur in the separate ?Dimaraji state? demanded by the outfit.

In a message to the ?citizens of Dimaraji,? the outfit has claimed that the Sundaram Committee appointed by the Centre for ascertaining facts regarding the Assam-Nagaland border had recommended that ?Dimapur should be returned to Assam?.

To substantiate its claim that the inclusion of Dimapur in Nagaland was ?temporary,? the militant outfit claimed that the first...

CHANDUBI, Jan 29 ? Fed up with the secluded life on the uninhabited island of Juan, Fernandez Alexander Selkirk, the explorer and navigator considered his lonely life a curse bereft of society. Pinning to return to the arms of humanity, he admitted , Friendship and Love, Divinely bestowed upon man

........ of a love

........ I taste you again!

Truely. So have the employes of Chandubi tourist lodge. A government job has forced them to stay off the beaten track here at Chandubi. In the solitude of forests they looked unhappy because of unending wait to welcome visitors which was a non-event...