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AIZAWL, July 1 ? Mizoram Chief Minister and Mizo National Front chief Zoramthanga on Wednesday said that he was willing to continue his peace mission in the North East after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked him to continue broader peace deals with the region?s insurgent groups including the NSCN-IM.

Speaking at a Peace Day function here, Zoramthanga said he had gone to Bangkok four times to meet Naga rebel leaders like Th Muivah and Issac Chishi Swu in his efforts to bring the NSCN to the negotiating table with the Centre in Delhi. ?We were engaged in peace talks with the Centre for 15...

AGARTALA, June 30 – Altogether 11,626 nominations have been filed by political parties, including the ruling CPI-M, Opposition Congress, BJP and Nationalist Trinamool Congress, for the three-tier panchayat elections in Tripura to be held on July 8, official sourcs said.

Yesterday was the last date for filing nominations, the sources said, adding a total of 223 nominations were filed for 82 Zilla Parisad seats. The ruling front filed papers in all the 82 seats and Opposition Congress in 70.

Altogether 781 nomination papers have been filed by different parties for 299 seats of 23 panchayat...

Imphal, June 30: Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh will return to Imphal tomorrow from the national capital equipped with the list of MLAs to be included in the new council of Ministers after the Ministry down-sizing exercise. The list is reported to have been prepared by a three member All India Congress Committee panel constituted to oversee down-sizing formalities of the Congress party. With the down-sizing exercise coming into effect from July seven six Ministers who were at New Delhi to lobby to the Chief Minister for berths in the new Council of ministers have arrived to the State capital...

GUWAHATI, June 30 – The overall flood situation in the State has shown signs of improvement today. The water levels of most of the rivers including the Brahmaputra and its major tributaries have receded. However, the mighty river is still flowing above the danger level (DL) at Dibrugarh (14cm) and Dhubri (13 cm). In the Barak valley, the Kushiara is also flowing .02cm above the DL at Karimganj.

The breaches caused by the floodwaters to the roads in many areas of Rangiya subdivision in Kamrup district, in many places in the districts of Nalbari, Barpeta, Morigaon, Goalpara and Hailakandi are...

NEW DELHI, June 30— Prospect of revival of the mega gas cracker project has brightened with a new promoter, Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) seeking a series of additional concessions over and above those already available. According to highly placed sources, GAIL has written a letter to Chief Minister of Assam appraising him of their conditions. The Rs 3,700 crore gas cracker project is a joint venture project between State Government-owned AIDC and Reliance Assam Petrochemical Limited (RAPL). But inordinate delay in setting up the project by the private sector giant Reliance India...