IMPHAL, January 3: The writ appeal filed by the chief minister Wahengbam Nipamacha against Assembly Speaker S Dhananjoy's rejection of the no-confidence motion filed against him by the United Front MIAs will come up for final hearing in the principal bench of the Gauhati High Court, Imphal bench tomorrow. In addition, a division bench of the same court will be hearing a writ appeal from the side of the Speaker against the anticipatory protection granted to MLAs Md Allauddin and Onjamang Haokip from disqualification by an order of the court on December 21 last. It may be mentioned that a single...

NEW DELHI, January 3: The Jamiat-ulema-Hind has filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging both the Assam Government's as well as former All Assam Students Union (AASU), president Sarbananda Sonowal's petitions on the repeal of the controversial IMDT Act, the State Irrigation Minister, Abdul Muhib Mazumdar revealed this here today. The case is now coming up for hearing on January 8 and the Apex Court is likely to take up the Jamiat's petition as well, Mazumdar, who is also the executive member of the organisation added. The Muslim organisation through its petition has sought to have...

NEW DELHI, January 3: The two-day national executive meeting of BJP is likely to discuss the situation in Northeast, developments in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of the extension of ceasefire and the impact of the WTO agreement on agricultural sector, reports PTI. The executive meet which beings here tomorrow would discuss internal security with special reference to peace initiatives in Kashmir and the militant violence in the Northeast States especially in Assam, party vice president Jana Krishnamurthy told reporters here today. 'The party is one with the Government on the ceasefire decision...

GUWAHATI, January 3: With a year of large-scale massacre of the Hindi-speaking populace in the state just over, Assam has formally entered an election year with speculation that the ruling Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) will eventually go in for an electoral alliance with the BJP. Elections to the state Assembly are due in April this year. The media has been rife with reports that the AGP and BJP would ultimately go in for a tie-up, though it remains a fact that both parties have been openly and repeatedly denying the possibility. But if BJP national president Bangaru Laxman is to be believed, it is...

IMPHAL, January 2: The State chief minister, W Nipamacha Singh, was closely grilled and reprimanded by Union home minister LK Advani during their meeting in New Delhi this morning regarding an 11 point agenda the Union Home ministry had set the state government, primarily regarding counter-insurgency measures, according to sources. The meeting, which began at 9.45 am this morning, lasted for an hour, and was attended by, apart from the chief minister, deputy CM L Chandramani and IFCD minister Ksh Biren. Sources said the discussions were incomplete today, and would be continued tomorrow...