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...

AGARTALA, Jan 28 ? Amid the security alert sounded through out the State following the massacre of 11 villagers by the insurgents of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) at Mandai Chowmahani village in West Tripura district on Sunday, a massive search operation is on in the area, reports PTI.

Police said the SP (West), Anurag Dhyankar is camping in the area following the brutal killing in which eleven people, including five women and children, were killed. Police said two persons were interrogated yesterday and one Sushil Debbarma was arrested today in connection with the...

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...

GUWAHATI, Jan 28 ? For more than 50 years, the Village Defence Parties (VDPs) are playing a key role in keeping the crime graph down all over the State and recently the State Government has introduced schemes like giving awards to the best VDP of districts, ex-gratia payments to the next of kin of the VDP men killed by extremists etc to encourage them to put up a better performance. Talking to The Assam Tribune here today, the DIG (Administration) of the Assam police, Sri BJ Mahanta, who is also the chief controller of VDP in Assam, said that the concept of VDPs was first initiated by...

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...