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 27 ? Maybe it is beyond the understanding of many of our urbanised people. But for most of our village folks, preservation of our cultural heritage is still an obsession. Unlike their little known villages, the reason for this passion of theirs is not obscure. The people of Khaloibari village, about 50 kms east of this capital city, have been preserving the dhulia culture of our society for about 56 years now. They have been practising this form of folk theatre since 1947 and by now they have earned a fame for themselves and for the entire Khetri-Dimaria area too. When the...

AIZAWL, Jan 24 ? Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, who has been involved in the Naga peace deal, Friday claimed he salvaged the Centre- NSCN(IM) talks in New Delhi Thursday by intervening at the right time, reports PTI.

Addressing party workers who received him in front of the office of the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) party, Zoramthanga said the NSCN (IM) leaders were angered by the statement of Manipur Chief Minister Ibobi Singh to the media that he was assured by the Prime Minister that Manipur would not be divided. ?The NSCN leaders, who were all set to leave Delhi for Amsterdam...

Margherita, Jan. 27: Dancing in ?Singpholand?, at large in Upper Assam. This is precisely what many visitors from Canada, China and Southeast Asia are looking forward to next month.

They will give a headstart to the annual festival of the Singphos, beginning here on February 13. ?People from China, Thailand, Myanmar and South Asian countries will be among the revellers,? said Rajesh Singpho, member of the organising committee of the Shapawan Yawng Manau Poi, the ?national festival? of the tribe.

?A group of tourists from Canada have contacted us, expressing their desire to be here during the...

Jirania (West Tripura), Jan. 27: Young Kanu Roy and his bride Mayarani had managed to escape death in the infamous Mandai massacre on June 8, 1980. But bullets separated them last night when a volley of gunfire felled Kanu.

In terror-stricken Mistripara village, where rebels gunned down 11 and injured several others on a night of mayhem, the only sign of life was the wail of people who had lost their near and dear ones.

Settled on government land in Mistripara area under Bankimnagar gaon panchayat under a special rehabilitation scheme, Kanu took to pulling rickshaws for a living and had...