IMPHAL, July 18 Manipur Chief Minister W Nipamacha Singh today said his government has ordered another survey of the proposed Tipaimukh dam to determine its height. A final decision would be taken only after studying the final survey report, he told the Assembly. Earlier, raising the issue, former Chief Minister Rishang Keishing of the Congress said he wanted to know the government's stand on the power project. The government had earlier opposed the dam on the ground that it would submerge large areas of the state. The Chief Minister said Northeastern Electric Power Corporation has been...

IMPHAL, July 17: Manipur People's Party (MPP) president and sitting MLA Okram Joy has decided to file a disqualification case against four MPP MLAs who had joined the ruling Manipur State Congress Party (MSCP) in an indecent haste. Sources said that this imminent court is without any prejudice to the ongoing hearings in the tribunal headed by chairman and Speaker Sapam Dhananjoy Singh against the 9 MLAs. The defeated Speaker Karam Badudhon Singh had 'recognised' the split of the parties despite the fact that he had no power to do so. However, the merger order had been signed by the in cumbent...

DIPHU, July 18: Incidents of violence continue to rock the Karbi Anglong Hill district as militants belonging to the United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) gunned down at least six persons in the Baithalangshu area of the district last night. This was the second major incident of killing in the district within the last three days as 10 persons were killed in the Keroni area of the district on July 16 last. A group of suspected UPDS militants shot dead Basa Kro (aged 65 years) and his wife Lisha Terapi (55) from close range at Karoigaon village under Baithalangshu Police Station at...

IMPHAL, July 18: Four personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed and a jawan was injured in a well planned ambush laid by suspected Peoples' Liberation army activists at Lamtan under Loktak police station this morning at around 8.30 am. The underground activists took away a loaded self-loaded rifle and an indigenously developed INSAS rifle. A column of the 112 Bn CRPF consisting of 32 personnel on a road opening patrol duty along the Charoi Khullen road was fired upon by the suspected underground activists who waylaid the approaching column at Lamtanjar village. The...

GUWAHATI, July 18: The people of Nagaland are highly apprehensive as July 31 approaches. On that day, the three-year-long ceasefire between the Isak-Muivah faction of the NSCN and the Government of India expires. The common people are hoping against hope that it will be extended, as has been demanded by several representative and public organisations in the non-governmental sector. Keeping this in mind, the political affairs committee of the state cabinet has recommended that the Centre extend the ceasefire for another six months, subject to certain conditions. But the principal parties, the...