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KARBI ANGLONG, June 26 –Tension continued in the Dhansiri Reserve Forest area of central Assam's Karbi Anglong district following an attempt to construct houses and a church there by Nagas from across the border, reports PTI.

Official sources here said the people from across Nagaland were setting up houses and a church there on the land they claimed to have been sold by a fake NGO which provided them with false land deeds in the name of the district administration.

Security forces had been deployed in the area and district superintendent visited to ease the tension there and prevent the...

Agartala, June 26: The ruling Left Front’s move to downsize the 18-member council of ministers in Tripura to 12 has encountered a hurdle with the CPI, a constituent of the Front, refusing to withdraw its lone representative from the government. At a meeting of the state unit of the CPM, the leaders unanimously decided to relieve five of the party’s ministers to comply with the 97th Amendment.

Later, at a meeting of the Left Front, the CPM requested the CPI to withdraw minister for primitive group programme Manindra Reang from the cabinet. However, secretary of the CPI’s state unit Prashanta...

Guwahati, June 26: The countdown to the downsizing of the Tarun Gogoi ministry in Assam has begun. Fifteen ministers put in their papers today, following a request by the chief minister last night to his ministry to resign en masse before he leaves for New Delhi on Monday. He will finalise his new team in consultation with the Congress high command there.

A source in the chief minister’s office said till late evening 15 ministers had tendered their resignation, some of them by fax. The whole process is likely to be completed before Gogoi leaves for New Delhi by a 4 pm flight on Monday, he...

AGARTALA, June 25 – The flood situation in Tripura took a turn for the worse with the death toll rising to three even as many villages were inundated, rendering thousands of people homeless, official sources said. The Assam-Agartala national highway, considered to be the lifeline of Tripura, was cut-off from rest of the country due to landslides and waterlogging at Ranirbazar in West Tripura district while Sai Radhanagar, Subhashnagar, Katakhal and Orient Chowmuhani areas remained waterlogged.

The Subdivisional Magistrate (SDM) of Sadar, Sambhu Nama said 1,500 people of 300 families were...

Imphal, June 25: Even as neighboring States like Nagaland and Meghalaya have worked out the model for the impending Ministry downsizing which will come into force from July 7, the Congress led SPF Government is still groping in the dark waiting for a nod at New Delhi from the AICC high command to the model worked out by the Steering Committee of the ruling Front. Chief Minister O Ibobi who left for New Delhi to meet AICC president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get their approval to the model worked out here is yet to be granted an audience by the two most important persons...