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AIZAWL, May 16 – Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga Thursday expressed the hope that peace initiatives in the North East region would not be affected in the event of the Congress coming to power, reports PTI.

Zoramthanga, involved in the Naga peace deal and who is acting as the go-between the Centre and other insurgent groups of the region, said that Central leaders, who wanted national integrity would not derail the peace process that had been initiated during the NDA rule.

''Coalition politics have come to stay in the country and leaders in Delhi could never rule highandedly as in the...

GUWAHATI, May 16 – The State’s premier regional outfit, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), has decided to take the lead in the formation of a joint forum of regional parties from across the country to secure regional interests. The party is planning to organise a national convention of all such parties soon to formalise the alliance. Disclosing this to presspersons, on the sidelines of the central executive committee meeting of the party here this afternoon, AGP spokesman Jagadish Bhuyan said that the party will shortly establish contact with all regional parties in this regard.

The decision to...

GUWAHATI, May 15 — Overcoming the initial shock and the internal bickering that followed its somewhat lacklustre electoral performance in the Lok Sabha polls in the State, the State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today tried to put up a brave front and claimed that there was nothing for it to be dispirited by the Lok Sabha poll results. Rather, it said, the party had secured the highest number of votes in 28 of the 126 Legislative Assembly Constituencies (LACs) of the State.

The party has won two of the 14 Lok Sabha seats, namely, Nagaon and Mangaldoi, in the State, while its ally ABSU-BPAC...

DISPUR, May 15 – The Committee on State Public Sector Enterprises (SPSE) in its meeting held recently with the management of APOL (Assam Polyester Co-operative Society Ltd) in the presence of authorities concerned of the co-operative Department and ASEB sorted out regarding reconnection of powerline to APOL and payment for energy bill which is to be as per the revised connected load as approved by the ASEB.

The Chief Engineer, P&D and RE, who represented the Chairman, ASEB, will submit his report to the Chairman, ASEB, on the facts stated above and gave an assurance to help APOL on...

MARIANI, May 15 – The first-ever survey of gibbon with an object to enumerate their existing numbers, was conducted by the State Forest Department at the gibbon wildlife sanctuary here. The department which conducted the survey during the first week of April announced that seven rare species of primates are existent at the sanctuary.

It is worth mentioning that out of 15 rare species of primates available in the country, nine of them are found in the North East. Out of these, seven are found at the gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary. Detailing the survey report, the Department informed that the...