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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...

Agartala, July 4: In a new twist to the ongoing power struggle in the Autonomous District Council (ADC), chief executive member Hirendra Kumar Tripura was asked to resign by his party today. The central executive committee of the National Socialist Party of Tripura (NSPT) ordered the controversial leader to tender his resignation from the post by July 8, failing which he would be expelled.

Tripura who is currently outside the state for treatment of his eyes, could not be contacted for his reaction.

The simmering discontent over Tripura?s activities, among his partymen and the CPM, which is...

IMPHAL, July 4 ? All the 32 ministers of the Secular Progressive Front (SPF) in Manipur Saturday night submitted their resignation papers to Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh to give him a free hand in downsizing the jumbo ministry before July seven, official sources said here. Speaker T N. Haokip and Chairman of the Hill Areas Committee Songchinkhup, who was of the cabinet rank, also stepped down raising speculation about their induction in the ministry.

The Hill panel was formed by legislators from the hill area. The ministers who have submitted their resignation papers included 25 of cabinet...

HAILAKANDI, July 4 ? In a memorandum to the Governor of Assam through the Deputy Commissioner of Hailakandi, the Hailakandi District Jaintia Darbar alleged the violation of human rights as well as constitutional rights as enshrined in the Preamble and the fundamental rights given in the Constitution of India.

The Darbar further alleged that the minority Jaintia people are living in very deplorable conditions and the Jaintia-inhabited places of Barak valley do not have pure drinking water supply, electricity, medical facilities and other infrastructural facilities including road communication...

KOHIMA, July 4 ? Various individuals and organisations have congratulated former Nagaland Chief Minister and senior Congress leader SC Jamir for the reported move to appoint him as governor of Goa and urged him to continue his service for welfare of the Nagas through his wisdom. In the event of his assuming office, Jamir would be the second Naga after Hokishe Sema being appointed to the gubernatorial post by the new UPA government as per his wish to stay outside the state politics for "sometime".

State Governor Shyamal Datta congratulated Jamir and wished him a good health. Nagaland Baptist...