IMPHAL, January 11: Even as the period of 45 days' adjournment of the winter session of the State Assembly by the Speaker S Dhananjoy Singh expires on January 14, the convening of the session still remain uncertain as the face-off between the Speaker and Chief Minister W Nipamacha Singh continues. The session was adjourned for an indefinite period by the Speaker after admitting the Opposition's. no-confidence motion against the ruling United Front ministry on December 1 last year. Later, the Speaker again postponed the session for another 45 days by issuing an order on December 8 beginning...

GUWAHATI, January 11: The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba-Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) has favoured a 'regional morcha' by uniting all tribal groups to uphold the regionalism in the State. Addressing a press conference here today, the AJYCP president Apurba Kumar Bhattacharyya alleged that the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has lost its all regional character and hence it has no right to remain in power. In this context, Bhattacharyya informed that AJYCP would take initiative to unite all small groups for the morcha in the greater interest of the State. 'There is no difference between AGP and BJP and considering...

GUWAHATI, January 11: The All India Minority Cell of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not bothered whether the controversial IMDT Act is scrapped or not, it's only concern is that no Indian citizen should be harassed in the name of deporting illegal migrants from the State. The BJP Minority Cell's senior vice-president, Abdul Karim today said, " We are not concerned whether the IMDT Act stays or go. The minorities living in Assam must not be harassed. We had bitter experience in this regard during both Congress and AGP regimes in the State." It will be pertinent to mention that the State BJP...

GUWAHATI, January 11: The destruction caused to the Assembly building in Shillong on Tuesday by a devastating fire evoked nostalgic feelings among the politicians and the officials here, who were associated with the two-storied 89-year old grandeur of architecture. The politicians and bureaucrats whom we could come to contact today recounted their association with this historic building under the roof of which many dramas of political upheavals concerning the NE region of the country, were enacted and which remained an witness to many moments of happiness and sorrow that touched the lives of...

AIZAWL, January 11: Former Mizoram Veterinary Minister P Lalbiaka on Wednesday left the Congress and joined the BJP, a press release issued here by RL Rina, general secretary of the Mizoram unit of the BJP said, reports PTI. Lalbiaka, a minister during former Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla's regime, is the younger brother of the Late president of the State BJP, P Lalchhuma. He was inducted to the party at a function held here where hundreds of booklets on the achievement of BJP-led government and messages of the party central leadership written in Mizo language were distributed, the release said...