IMPHAL, January 22: The state Governor, Ved Marwah, apparently exasperated by the constant dithering over the issue of reconvening of the adjourned winter session of the State Assembly, today directed that the adjourned session should be reconvened latest by February 6 next to take up the pending no-confidence motion against the W Nipamacha Singh government. In near-identical letters to the chief minister and the Speaker, the Governor also expressed his unhappiness over the continued stalling of the Assembly session and their disregard of his previous message to them in this regard. The Raj...

GUWAHATI, January 22: The Gauhati High Court has directed the Assam Government to hold the general election to the Bodoland Autonomous Council (BAC) within a period six months. Delivering a judgement, the division bench consisting of Justice HK Sema and Justice D Biswas has castigated the State government of dilly-dallying with the BAC's election, which has never been held since it was created in 1993 after the signing of the Bodo Accord. The judgement came following a writ petition moved by Kankeswar Narzary, ex-chief of the BAC and Derhagra Mochahary, general secretary of the UBNLF, who were...

DIBRUGARH, January 22: The Dibrugarh distirct unit of AASU, in consultation with its parent body, today submitted a memorandum before the Asam Sahitya Sabha seeking clarifications on the latter's stand vis-a-vis the current situation in Assam. The students are sore that the Sabha is yet to voice its concern on several burning issues confronting the State today. Addressing a news conference here today, local AASU leaders have threatened to dissociate themselves from the ensuing 66th session of the Assam Sahitya Sabha to be held here from February 7. They also lambasted the literary organisation...

ITANAGAR, January 22: The ruling Congress(I) Government and the All Arunachal Pradesh Students Union are heading for a major showdown with the later determined to go ahead with its second phase of 36-hour Arunachal bandh on January 24 and 25 against the lackadaisical attitude of the Government to resolve the union's various charter of demands as per an agreement reached between the State Government and the students body on October 2. Both the sides seems to have hardened their stands. The students are determined and they were preparing for what they call "fight out till our goal is achieved"....

IMPHAL, January 22: The Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup, KYKL (O), has owned up responsibility for the assassination attempt on the All Manipur Students' Union, AMSU, president, Kh Gourashyam, on January 17, in a press release today. The organisation however said it hit out against the UNLF and not the AMSU in targeting Gourashyam. It said it had made this intention of hitting at UNLF sympathisers and members in the AMSU clear earlier. It said it had also appealed to the public to identify these elements in the AMSU and to have them thrown out so as to re-establish the AMSU as a pure students' body...