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LUMDING, May 13 – The people of Lumding in general and the employees of Lumding railway division in particular have expressed deep concern over the unabated extortions and killings in Karbi Anglong and NC Hills districts by extremists violating all norms of ceasefire.

The railway employees, through their trade unions, have submitted memorandums to the General Manager, Divisional Railway Manager, NF Railway and other concerned authority, expressing deep concern over the extortion in the form of monthly payment from the salary of the employees, extortion of high amount from the middle class...

Imphal, May 13: Thokchom Meinya Singh of the Congress beat nearest rival Moirangthem Nara Singh of the CPI, a partner in the ruling coalition of Manipur, with a huge margin to bag the Inner seat. Counting for the Outer will be held on May 19. Immediately after his election, which saw the sitting Lok Sabha MP Thounaojam Chaoba Singh of BJP relegated to a poor fourth, Meinya Singh said Manipur’s territorial integrity would top his agenda as a parliamentarian. “I will not compromise on the issue of Manipur’s territorial integrity,” he told a party celebration at the state headquarters, Congress...

Agartala, May 13: Growing debt, sharply rising liability in non-plan expenses and non-receipt of dues from the Centre have triggered a major crisis for the cash-strapped government of Tripura. The state government will find it difficult to meet expenses on salary and pension bills. A senior official in the finance department said the government had passed a budget of Rs 2991.84 crore with an uncovered deficit of Rs 68 crore.

“We expected that payment of outstanding dues from the award of the 11th Finance Commission and fresh grants on non-plan head from the 12th Finance Commission would help...

IMPHAL, May 13 – Dr Thokchom Meinya of the Indian National Congress (inc) has succeeded in wresting the Inner Manipur parliamentary constituency in the 14th Lok Sabha polls from three times sitting mp, Thounaojam Chaoba of the Bharatiya Janata Party (bjp) by a landslide margin. Chaoba, a former Union Minister of State for Sports, had been elected as mp thrice on a Manipur State Congress Party (mscp) ticket. He also won the same seat on a Congress ticket in 11th Lok Sabha. But he was defeated this time.

Dr Meinya, who is also the Higher and Technical Education Minister with the ruling Congress...

AIZAWL, May 13 – The ruling Mizo National Front, a constituent of the NDA, emerged the winner in the lone Mizoram Lok Sabha seat as well as the by-poll in the Kolasib Assembly seat after counting was completed in all polling stations, except for two situated in the southernmost Lawngtlai assembly segment. Vanlalzawma of the MNF won by defeating his nearest Mizoram Secular Force-sponsored independent candidate, Laltluangliana Khiangte, by a margin of 23,185 votes, a huge margin in a small Parliamentary constituency like Mizoram having total electorate of 5,49,945 only. Vanlalzawma secured 1,82...