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Dawki, Dec. 15: Two years after Pyrdiwah, a border conflict of similar proportions is brewing near Dawki. Thousands of Bangladeshi boatmen have transgressed into a disputed area 150 yards from the Zero Point in Meghalaya and are trying to make further inroads with the Bangladesh Rifles? backing. Some have entered parts of Dawki and nearby Rongkhum.

The infiltrators were recently spotted collecting boulders from Dawki Khal with Bangladesh Rifles personnel deployed across the border keeping watch. The BSF reacted to the intrusion only after learning that a group of journalists were witness to it...

Aizawl, Dec. 15: The Mizo National Front heaved a sigh of relief as Mara Democratic Front president and legislator P.P. Thawlla was sworn in by governor A.R. Kohli this afternoon as the sixth minister of state in Zoramthanga?s ministry.

The MNF desperately needed another MLA to consolidate its simple majority in the Mizoram House. Thawlla, till Sunday noon, had said he would sit as an Independent MLA until and unless the political affairs committee of his party, the MDF, decided otherwise.

Driving a hard bargain, a deal was reached late on Sunday night according to which the MDF will support...

AIZAWL, Dec 15 ? Former minister of state for finance, environment, forests and taxation Lalchamliana was elected Speaker of Mizoram Assembly unopposed on the first day of the session of the newly-constituted House here Monday, reports PTI.

Lalchamliana was declared elected unopposed by Protem Speaker R Khawpuithanga and was escorted to the Speaker?s chair by Chief Minister Zoramthanga and Opposition Leader Lal Thanhawla.

The new Speaker sought whole-hearters in maintaining the sanctity of the House.

Zoramthanga, Lal Thanhawla, Mizoram People?s Conference (MPC) chief Lalhmingthanga and PP...

NEW DELHI, Dec 15 ? While ruling out the possibility of convening a meeting of chief ministers to discuss the issue of inter-linking of rivers, the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) has clarified that it has no proposal under consideration to impose cess, taxes and duties to mobilise funds for the Project. In a significant admission, the MoWR has confirmed that the Task force on river linking Project has moved the Ministry of Defence for security clearance to place digitalised maps of the topography maps of the rivers on its web site besides using them for other purposes such as preparation...

GUWAHATI, Dec 15 ? The North East Students? Organisation (NESO) has launched a region-wide movement from today demanding hundred percent reservation of jobs in all the Central Government offices for local candidates. Members of the NESO began 72 hour hunger strike from 11 am today in most of the state headquarters of the region. NESO chairman Samujjal Bhattacharya said that the hunger strike in Shillong has been postponed till December 17 in view of the prevailing situation in Meghalaya, while, the strike in Itanagar has also been postponed due to a cultural festival. In Guwahati, members of...