KOHIMA, July 28: Three former Prime Ministers have jointly appealed to the Centre to renew the ceasefire agreement with the NSCN(IM) and urged the Thai government to release T Muivah so as to revive the peace process, reports UNI. In a joint release issued recently, Chandra Shekhar, VP Singh and HD Deve Gowda expressed concern at the development "at home and in Bangkok" and said these were not helping to create a conducive environment to maintain the ceasefire meaningfully or continue dialogue to find a lasting solution to the 50-year-old Naga problem. "We are committed to promoting a dialogue...

GUWAHATI, July 28: The Church has called for a cessation of hostilities among Naga underground groups. A six-member team of the Nagaland Baptist Churches Council met the "kilo kilonser" (home minister) of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim, Q Tuccu, on Wednesday and impressed upon him the need for a ceasefire among the groups. Killings among Naga brothers and sisters must stop, the NSCN leader was told. The delegation of the Church, an influential institution in Nagaland, was told that the NSCN leadership would discuss their proposal. On 20 July, the team had appealed for unity to the...

GUWAHATI, July 27: The ongoing crisis in the hill district committee of the CPI(ML) today took a serious turn as feeling betrayed by the party, at least 36 members resigned from the party. In a joint statement those who tendered their resignation from the primary membership of the party said that repeated appeals were made to the central committee of the CPI(ML) to interfere and resolve the ongoing crisis instead of taking all the party members into confidence and refusing to recognise their grievances against the autocratic style of functioning of the Karbi Anglong District Committee. The...

IMPHAL, July 27: The Naan Far Lon, once a part of Manipur till 1972 has now been taken over completely by Myanmar despite repeated reminders and appraisals to Union government to consider the issue, Chandramani, deputy Chief Minister told the House today. The deputy CM informed the House that a standing House committee comprising members of both ruling and opposition members will be constituted to re-examine any violations of Indo-Myanmar border issues. Earlier, O Joy, MLA, told the House that the state had lost 29 sq. km of land from the 1971 land survey onwards to Myanmar. Despite repeated...

IMPHAL, July 27: Speaker S Dhananjoy announced in the House today that the censure motions moved by four MLAs demanding resignation of Arts and Culture and Cooperation Minister W Thoiba and Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister N Bihari have been rejected. Opposition member O Joy and K Loken had moved the motion against Bihari while Nimaichand Luwang and N Nimai initiated the motion against W Thoiba yesterday. The censure motion against Bihari was put up charging him of appointing 19 SOs against the required one, 26 LDCs against the required two, 22 progress assistants and sending away...