Guwahati, July 7: Two days after trimming his ministry ?under compulsion?, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi sought to placate sidelined senior leaders by promising to shuffle the government next year. Gogoi pleaded with those who missed the bus not to lose heart, saying he would ensure that their ?status? as leaders remains the same. ?We will rehabilitate them appropriately,? he said, hoping the assurance would end the rebellion in former PWD minister Sarat Barkotoky?s hometown Sonari and a couple of other Congress bastions.

The chief minister told the media at Janata Bhawan that the new...

AIZAWL, July 7 ? Former Mizoram Minister of State for Tourism, C Lalrinsanga is all set to occupy the Deputy Speaker?s post in the State Assembly. Speaker Lalchamliana told PTI that Tuesday was the last date for filing of nominations for the election to the Deputy Speaker?s post and no other nomination had been received so far. The election for the Deputy Speaker?s post is being held today.

The ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) decided to field Lalrinsanga for the post at its legislature party meeting last night. MNF sources said that while Lalrinsanga would be the Deputy Speaker, PP Thawla...

DIMAPUR, July 7 ? Outgoing power minister and veteran BJP leader Tiameren and outgoing social security & welfare minister K Hollohon, heavyweight JD(U) leader and agriculture minister Huska Sema failed to make it to Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio?s team of 12 ministers including the CM, which was announced today to complete the ?downsizing exercise? under a new law passed by the the parliament. Senior BJP ministers MC Konyak as well as independent candidate and outgoing education minister Chuba Chang and Samata Party leader Deo Nukhu, also failed to get into Rio?s favoured eleven excluding CM...

GUWAHATI, July 7 ? Power generation in the North East is coming at a high cost. The North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) is spending more on security than any other public sector power-generating corporation under the Power Ministry. NEEPCO has demanded that the government should share some of the burden. NEEPCO Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) SC Sharma told newspersons here today that as much as 25 per cent of the Corporation?s 3,276-strong workforce is deployed in security related duties. It is far higher than the three to seven per cent employees assigned similar duties in...

NEW DELHI, July 7 ? Close on the heels of the revelation that the highest number of foreigners were illegally staying in Assam, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) today conceded that infiltration from Bangladesh was continuing into different States of North-East. According to available reports, Bangladeshi nationals have been found using porous Indo-Bangladesh border to enter into India illegally, Union Minister of State for Home, S Reghupathy said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha here today.

Yesterday, his colleague Union Minister of State, Sriprakash Jaiswal had disclosed in Lok Sabha that...