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Imphal, April 19: For all their much vaunted talk that everything is fine within the MSCP and the recent re-affirmation in the leadership of its president, Th Chaoba, an imminent split is staring the legislature wing of the MSCP in the face and the breakaway group may merge with the Congress. The MSCP which has seven MLAs in its kitty is the second largest constituent partner of the Congress led Secular Progressive Front (SPF) Government. Disclosing this an MSCP MLA said the party is bogged down by a number of pressure exerted from different quarters and this may be one of the reason why a...

Imphal, April 19: The chief minister O Ibobi Singh has reaffirmed that his Secular Progressive Front ministry will never implement Prevention of Terrorist Act, POTA in the state. The chief minister during a short interview this evening at his official bungalow said that even though Parliament has passed POTA, his ministry will not accept this act, as the existing acts and laws are quite sufficient for facing insurgency at present. He said, the forthcoming cabinet meeting which is going to be convened on April 24 next will take a decision to nullify the process taken up for implementation of...

AGARTALA, April 18 ? Dogged by serious financial crisis, Tripura tea industry has demanded some positive steps from the State Government to save the gardens from inevitable closures. The Tea Association of India, Agartala branch, recently in a letter to Chief Minister Manik Sarkar outlined the problems that put the State?s tea gardens in the red. PK Sarkar, secretary of the TAI in his letter said, tea gardens in Tripura are running at losses for the last several years and now unable to come out of this situation without taking immediate corrective measures most of the gardens are on the ?verge...

SHILLONG, April 18 ? The Congress party, a coalition partner in the Peoples? Forum of Meghalaya (PFM) Government, was likely to continue in the coalition despite differences within the party over dropping of seven Congress ministers, reports PTI. ?As the Treasury bench is unstable, the Congress cannot opt out of the Government,? Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyer, in-charge of north-eastern States, said here today. Aiyer arrived here yesterday for an on-the-spot study of the political situation in the State, held a marathon meeting last night at the residence of Meghalaya Pradesh Congress...

TURA, April 18 ? The fifty years golden jubilee celebrations of the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council got off to a start at Tura on Sunday with a twenty-one gun salute by the Garo Nokmas (village headmen). Initially there were supposed to be fifty Nokmas opening the celebrations but many failed to turn up. The Garo Hills Autonomous District Council, earlier known as the GHDC came into existence on April 14, 1952. Late Captain Williamson Sangma, who later became the first Chief Minister of Meghalaya State, was also the first Chief Executive Member of the GHDC. Meghalaya Home Minister...