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Agartala, July 5: The Reang tribal community, cutting across political affiliations, are preparing to organise a procession at the state capital to protest the forced resignation of minister for primitive group programme Manindra Reang. A major political row is also brewing between the CPM and its partner, the CPI.

CPI leader D.P. Sengupta said ever since the break-up of the undivided Communist Party in 1964, the CPI gradually lost its base and strength. CPM domination adversely affected the Shantir Bazar Assembly constituency.

Although the CPI was a claimant to this seat, the CPM nominated...

GUWAHATI, July 5 ? Bringing an end to speculations for more than a month, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi finally announced the list of his new downsized Ministry here this evening. No new face has been included in the Ministry, while several senior Ministers including Public Works Department Minister Sarat Barkataki, Power Minister Devananda Konwar , Agriculture Minister Dr Ardhendu Kumar Dey and Industries Minister Bhubaneswar Kalita have been dropped from the Ministry.

As all the Ministers had submitted their resignations to the Chief Minister to enable him to downsize the Ministry, he has...

Imphal, July 5: Manipur University is planning to bring the people of India and Myanmar closer by opening a Burmese studies centre here for students interested in knowing more about their neighbour. Indo-Myanmar border trade was opened through Manipur?s Moreh township by the then Union commerce minister, P. Chidambaram, more than a decade back.

But Manipur had been maintaining close trade ties with its neighbour long before that.

Instances of cross-border marriages were also not uncommon.

University registrar R.K. Ranjan Singh said the University Grants Commission (UGC) has approved the...

Dibrugarh, July 5: After a gap of nearly two decades, the Assam Inland Water Transport department, in collaboration with the Inland Water Authority of India, will reintroduce cargo service on the Brahmaputra between Guwahati and Dibrugarh from the second week of July.

?Initially, the service will operate twice a month and we have been instructed to book goods from Dibrugarh and Nimatighat in Jorhat,? said commercial officer of Dibrugarh I. Rahman, who is overseeing the operation.

Cargo and passenger services on the Brahmaputra were a regular feature before Independence with British planters...

July 4: Less than 24 hours after getting Sonia Gandhi?s seal on the composition of his new team, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi rushed to 10 Janpath for the second time with a revised list to calm restive ministers who had got wind of their omission from the original one.

A Gogoi aide said lobbying intensified as word got around that some senior ministers were not on the list approved yesterday by the Congress president. ?After getting a whiff of a revolt, the chief minister had no option but to take a second look at the list.?

Another source said the disgruntled Congress leaders persuaded...