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NEW DELHI, Jan 28 ? Bickering over the seat sharing arrangements among the non-Congress and non-Left parties in Nagaland continues, with the BJP yet undecided on joining the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN). The party is likely to take a final decision at the meeting of its Central election Commission (CEC) here tomorrow.

Announcing this, national president of the BJP, M Venkhaiah Naidu said that the CEC meeting would also finalise its poll strategy as well as its list of candidates in all the four States going to polls next month. Even as the BJP bargains for few seats in Nagaland...

Kohima/ Dimapur, Jan. 28: In yet another jolt to Nagaland chief minister S.C. Jamir, senior Congress MLA and former minister T.A. Ngullie today quit the party and joined the BJP, apparently after being denied a Congress ticket for the February 26 Assembly elections.

Ngullie?s resignation followed a similar move by T. Chuba, minister for higher and technical education and land revenue in the Jamir Cabinet, on January 16. Home minister Neiphiu Rio had quit the party last year.

Ngullie, a former finance minister, is a sitting MLA from the 27 Tyui constituency. He said he felt free now that he had...

GUWAHATI, Jan 28 ? Five members of a family were killed by suspected Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) militants at Duligaon village under Bogribari police station in Dhubri district last night. Police sources in Dhubri told The Assam Tribune here this evening that a BLT member Rajiv Brahma escaped from a camp of the outfit located at Basbari with weapons on the night of January 26 last. Last night, a group of armed militants raided the house of Rajiv and shot dead his father Suren Brahma, mother Rene Brahma, brothers Bikramjit Brahma and Sujit Brahma and sister Manashree Brahma. Rajiv was not at...

Imphal, January 28: The Convenor Committee Against Tipaimuk Dam today said it is a positive step that Nungba Sub-Division Village Authority Council (NSDVAC) is formed though we are not aware of its formation and existence. It will help all of us particularly the people of Tamenglong District study carefully the proposed Tipaimukh Dam and debate the pros and cons of the dam and understand. In response to the press release of the Nungba Sub-Division Village Authority Council dated 26th January, 2003 it questioned the wisdom of the leadership of the council. Are you sure that the proposed...

Imphal, January 28: Describing former Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga as immature and over-ambitious, DPP working president Udoy Thongam and convenor of the party's Committee on Territorial Integrity, RK Anand today said Zoramthanga has no role to play on the question of the State's territorial integrity. Reacting to the former rebel leader's suggestion for a committee to redefine boundaries of North Eastern States, the two leaders said Zoramthanga has no knowledge even on .the historical fact of his own State, Mizoram. Supplementing the charge, they said that in between 1840 and 1850 a...