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KOHIMA, Dec 1: Members of the Delimitation Commission of Nagaland have suggested that the proposed readjustment of constituencies boundaries be taken up only after the February Assembly polls as most of the intending candidates along with their supporters have already begun their compaign, reports PTI. Any efforts at delimitation now might create serious law and order problems in the state, the associate members said in their memorandum to the Commission. They along with members of the state cabinet felt that the Commission should take into consideration the tribal sensitivity and hill and...

DIBRUGARH, Dec 1: Generally ?Vinegar? Joe Stilwell must be grinding his teeth wherever he is. For the urgency with which his forces built the road later named after him is today caught in the quagmire of international politics and policy differences. At the end of the two-day deliberations on the problems and prospects of re-opening the Stilwell Road here on Saturday the matter continues to be as complex as it was two days ago whether to expedite the process of re-opening the road at all and if yes how to go about it. A local tea planter, Manoj Jalan, who is involved in the matter, today said...

GUWAHATI, Dec 1 ? The meeting of the State Cabinet sub-committee on Bodo affairs today decided to adopt a give-and-take policy on the matter of including additional villages in the proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), reports PTI. The committee which met here tonight under the chairmanship of Health Minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman decided that both the government and the Bodoland Liberation Tiger (BLT) should adopt a give-and-take policy and mutual understanding if the BTC boundary problem was to be solved. The BLT, now on ceasefire with the government, has demanded 93 additional...

GUWAHATI, Dec 1 ? The office-bearers of the Gauhati High Court Bar Association today met the Chief Justice of the Court to register their protest against the transfer of Justice Gopala Gowda from Karnataka to Guwahati. Apurba Sarma, general secretary of the association, told this Correspondent that Justice Gowda was allegedly named in a sex scandal and he was also named in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in this regard. He said that a general meeting of the bar association will be held tomorrow to decide on the future course of action to be taken by the advocates to oppose the transfer of...

Dimapur, Nov. 30: The entire Opposition in Nagaland has accused the S.C. Jamir-led Congress government in the state of not being transparent on the issue of delimitation of constituencies.

The Nagaland unit of the BJP, holding the state government responsible for the present crisis, termed the categorisation of ?plains Nagas? and ?hill Nagas? as a ?move to sell off the birthright of the people?.

The Nagaland People?s Front condemned the decision for rearrangement of the Assembly seats in the state. It accused the Jamir government of keeping the people and political parties in the dark on the...