IMPHAL, February 4: The Assembly Speaker S Dhananjoy Singh has expressed the fear that trouble might erupt again between the ruling and Opposition parties if the Assembly session is reconvened now. Informing the Governor of the apprehension, the Speaker said yesterday that tension is still building up between the ruling and Opposition parties, an informed source said. The Speaker told this reporter today that the repairing work inside the House has completed. Meanwhile, State unit BJP legislature leader and former Chief Minister RK Dorendra has stated that his party is still following the...

BISHNU RABHA KSHETRA (Tamulpur), February 4: The insurgency ridden Tamulpur area wore a festive look today as thousands of people thronged the Kalaguru Bishnu Rabha Kshetra, the venue of the 27th Bebak Rabha Kraurang Runchum (All Rabha Sahitya Sabha) despite an Assam bandh call given by ULFA and NDFB jointly. The open session of the sabha held this afternoon was presided over by Jagat Kama, the president of All Rabha Sahitya Sabha. Earlier, the president was brought to the stage with a cultural procession from the Tamulpur inspection bungalow located three kilometres away from the venue which...

AGARTALA, February 4: The Tripura Government has decided to ban construction of high-rise buildings following the devastating earthquake in Gujarat, reports UNI. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today said his Government would not allow construction of more than three-storied buildings in the State. However, the existing high-rise buildings in the State would not be disturbed, he added. A high-level meeting would be held here tomorrow to finalise measures and legal actions to be taken to ban construction of high-rise buildings in the State. The State Government was concerned over the GSI report...

GUWAHATI, February 4: Deepar Beel, the lone Ramsar site of the State and second of the kind in the Northeast region, after Loktak in Manipur, can be saved from degradation only with the help of the local fishermen who have been depending on the beel traditionally for centuries. For these are the people who regard the beel as their Goddess of wealth and the source to continue their life and culture. Unlike the greedy land grabbing members of the society's elite section, these people are against any attempt at turning the beel area in to a 'developed area' as has been proposed time to time by...

ITANAGAR, February 4: The Centre has agreed to provide Rs 32 crore for development of horticulture in Arunachal Pradesh which has the ideal agro-climatic condition in this regard, State Horticulture Minister Zapu Deru said on Saturday. The State Government, in collaboration with NGOs, would work towards implementing the horticulture projects, Deru said while inaugurating an office campus of the Agro-Gramin United (AGUN), a non-government organisation here, reports PTI. Deru said his department had planted altogether 80,000 apple saplings in West Kameng district with the help of marginal...