Dimapur, July 14: National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) militants have started dispersing from their two largest designated camps ? the council headquarters and the general headquarters ? following deployment of troops along key access routes to the camps. NSCN (I-M) sources described the move as a precautionary measure against of increasing military activities such as frisking and patrolling by the army and paramilitary Assam Rifles in and around the camps.

According to a senior secretary of the NSCN (I-M), rebels concentrated in the council headquarters, known as Camp Hebron...

Itanagar, July 14 (PTI): The three-day agitation by the Arunachal Pradesh unit of the Congress over governor V.C. Pande?s decision to dissolve the Assembly culminated in a 24-hour bandh that paralysed life in most parts of the state. Markets in the state capital were closed and private vehicles conspicuous by their absence. Sources in the transport office said four long-distance government buses left for their destinations under police escort. About 10 more buses plied within Itanagar.

No untoward incident was reported from any part of the state.

All banks and central government offices were...

Kohima, July 14: Chief minister Neiphiu Rio is pulling out all stops to prevent Nagaland from going the Arunachal Pradesh way. Yesterday, at a get-together of legislators of the ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN), called by Rio ostensibly to ward off a coup, the new ministers tried to calm ruffled feathers.

Earlier this month, Rio picked 12 ministers out of the 35 for the new council of ministers adhering to the provisions of the 97th constitutional amendment.

Some senior ministers from alliance partners such as the BJP and the Janata Dal (United) were left out, as were a few from...

ITANAGAR, July 14 ? The Congress in Arunachal Pradesh has claimed that the ?caretaker? BJP-led UDF government was reduced to a minority due to some of the former MLAs of the coalition moving over to the Mukut Mithi-led Congress. Deputy CLP leader Tako Dabi asserted at a press conference here last night that the UDF government was reduced to a minority because 29 of its members had either joined the Congress or have given their consent to do so.

Besides the 22 members of the recently dissolved Assembly who had ?already joined? the party, seven, including four ministers, had consented to switch...

MAO GATE (Manipur), July 14 ? The Mao Students? Union has expressed its displeasure with the district administration and state government officials for their non-availability after the devastating landslide at Mao Gate, which has caused huge losses to the people in the area.

?The area continues to sink day and night and residents could gather only a handful of their materials as the sinking began to increase,? said the union in a release. Publicity secretary of the union L Daihrii said many people have been rendered homeless because of the severity of the landslide.

?Altogether 66 houses and...