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AIZAWL, May 17 ? The Mizoram People?s Conference (MPC) youth wing has launched scathing attack against the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) accusing the party leaders of hobnobbing with the underground NSCN (I-M), reports PTI. The allegation, coming in the wake of the State Chief Minister Zoramthanga?s meeting with NSCN leadership in Bangkok, pointed accusing fingers at the State government and the ruling party in signing an agreement with Noida-based Khaibak Enterprise in marketing of ginger from Mizoram. The MPC Youth wing said that the Noida-based firm was owned by close relative of NSCN...

GUWAHATI, May 17 ? Education Ministers of North Eastern States today resolved to submit a joint memorandum to the Union Human Resources Development Ministry next week demanding adequate and extended financial assistance for education sector in the region. Following hours-long discussion here today, the Education Ministers of the region were in agreement that the Central government should continue to sponsor Operation Black Board (OBB), Hindi teachers and Sarba Siksha Abhiyan in the region besides modifying the Mid-day Meal schemes suiting the conditions of the region. The Education Ministers...

GUWAHATI, May 17 ? The cancer patients of Assam as well as the other States of the North East India are facing problems as two important machines of the B Barooah Cancer Institute have stopped functioning. The machines ? Linear Accelerator and Cobalt machine used for radiation on cancer cells, have been inoperative causing severe hardships for the patients in the region. It is learnt that the Linear Accelerator has been closed down by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) for its failure to satisfy certain mandatory guidelines while the Cobalt machine has been out of order for the last one...

SHILLONG, May 17? The Federation of Khasi States, apex body of 25 traditional chiefs in the Khasi Hills has rejected the recommendations of the Constitution Review Commission (CRC) providing for representation for the ?Syiems?, ?Myntris? and other traditional heads in the autonomous district councils (ADCs). The Steering Committee of the Federation, which met here yesterday, is of the opinion. ?If the recommendation of the CRC is implemented, it will undermine the traditional status of the Khasi ?rulers?.

A resolution adopted at the day-long meeting of the Steering Committee declared ?If...

GUWAHATI, May 17 ? Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said the Centre should apply the same principles to bring the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to the negotiating table as it had done in the case of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (I-M) in Nagaland. Speaking at a ?Meet the Press? programme at the Guwahati Press Club, the Chief Minister said he had all along been telling the Centre to tackle the ULFA problem on the lines of its policy on the NSCN (I-M).

He also inaugurated the Press Club website www.guwahatipressclub.com prior to his speech. While reiterating that he...