Imphal, February 27: The Manipur State Congress Party, now a constituent member of the newly formed Secular Progressive Front (SPF) led by the Congress has withdrawn support to the NDA Government led by the BJP at New Delhi. The decision to withdraw support was taken in a joint meeting of the party's central executive committee and the six newly elected members at the official residence of Th Chaoba, the Lok Sabha MP at Babupara today. Chaoba is the president of this regional party. The decision to sever ties with the NDA has been taken in view of the alliance with the Congress in Manipur. The...

KALACHERRA, Feb 26 – The Kalacherra area in Tripura has of late come in the news for its archaeological importance. It consists of North Hurua, East Hurua, Gobindapur, Pratyakroy and Kalacherra village under Kadamtala rural development block of Dharmanagar sub-division in North Tripura district. Kalacherra is situated a few kilometres away from the railway town of Dharmanagar. The villagers of Kalacherra mainly depend upon agriculture. Most of them are daily wage labourers. Some are government employees. The villagers have been discovering various unique historical and archeological items...

NIRJULI, (Arunachal), Feb 26 — Nyokum Yullo — the most popular socio-religious festival of Nyishi tribe took off to a colourful start on Tuesday. The main function of the day was held at Nirjuli, Nyokum Ground, about 20 km away from capital Itanagar. The Nyishis of Upper, Lower Subansiri, East Kameng and Papum Pare districts celebrate this festival with religious fervour and gaiety. According to Nyishi legends. The word Nyokum is derived from two words Nyok, meaning entire land mass of the earth and Kum means putting things together. And so the Nyishis interpreted Nyokum festivals as inviting...

DIMAPUR, Feb 26 – In a step ahead to tighten the loose ends of revenue generation the Nagaland Finance department has notified that the sales tax on commodities as well as on works contract as applicable has to be compulsorily deducted as source in respect of all payments made by government to the contractors. In spite of standing orders of the State government for compulsory deduction of sales tax at source in respect of all government payments to contractors, the Nagaland finance department source revealed to The Assam Tribune that it has been noticed that several departments and their...

NEW DELHI, Feb 26 – Railway Minister Nitish Kumar today tried to undo the damage done by his predecessor Mamata Banerjee to the North-east in the last Railway Budget, sanctioning a number of long-pending demands including start of project work on Bogibeel bridge and increasing the frequency of the Rajdhani Express to seven days a week. What would bring cheers to the large Marwari community in the region is the proposal to start a weekly Guwahati-Jodhpur-Bikaner via Jaipur train. A new inter-city train service called Jan Shatabdi Express is being introduced between Guwahati-Dimapur. A total...