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Kohima, June 15: The Neiphiu Rio government today iterated its stand that it was in favour of a continuation of dialogue with the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah). But the chief minister and his cabinet also hinted that the Khaplang faction was returning to violence following the change in government at the Centre.

The Consultative Committee for Peace met here today and resolved to ask the NSCN (I-M) leaders to expedite the peace negotiations with Delhi. Conceding a sharp rise in killings and factional clashes across the state, Rio said his government was deploying...

Imphal, June 15: Even as Chief Minister O Ibobi is wracking his minds over the downsizing move to be effected by July 7, its partner the MSCP, which has two MLAs, has begun exerting pressure on the Chief Minister to include one of its MLAs in the Council of Minister when the down sizing is effected. Disclosing this to The Sangai Express a prominent member of the Congress said that the MSCP has recently submitted a written intimation to the president of MPCC (I), to accommodate one of the two MSCP MLAs in the Council of Ministers. Chief Minister O Ibobi is also the president of the MPCC (I)...

Agartala, June 15: Tripura’s increasing number of insurgency-hit non-tribal refugees has demanded adequate security from the government and their inclusion in the “cluster village” scheme. The Left Front government has implemented the scheme for tribal refugees in the interior areas. However, more than 10,000 non-tribal refugees, who have been ejected from the homes in the Jampui Jala and Takarjala areas under Bishalgarh subdivision, have requested the government to include them in the special rehabilitation programme.

The non-tribals in the sub-division bore the brunt of the Tripura...

Kokrajhar, June 15: Elections to the nascent Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) appear unlikely to take place before November, leading to doubts in people’s minds on whether the new set-up will also go the Bodoland Autonomous Council (BAC) way. Though the BTC election was scheduled to be held within six months of the formation of the Interim Bodo Council on December 6 last year, it was unlikely that the elections will be held before another five months.

“The elections can be held in November at the earliest,” said BTC executive member Derhasat Basumatary.

A BTC official said that with the...

SHILLONG, JUNE 15 – Conceding to the demands of the north-eastern Chief Ministers, the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has withdrawn the draft Cabinet note seeking exemption from earmarking of 10 per cent of gross budgetary support for the region. The decision was announced at a press conference by HRD Minister Arjun Singh on the concluding day of the review meeting of HRD schemes with the Chief Ministers of the region at Hotel Pinewood here this evening. Singh had presided over the meeting.

Singh also announced that an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) would be set up...