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SHILLONG, June 13? Chief Minister D D Lapang Thursday said that his Congress-led coalition Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government would invoke the provisions of POTA if necessary to deter unauthorised liaisoning by politicians with banned militant groups in the State, reports PTI.

Stating that his government was aware of a nexus between politicians and militants, Lapang told a press conference after a Cabinet meeting that politicians in the State who liasioned with ultras without specific authorisation were liable to be prosecuted.

?The police are investigating these activities and...

GUWAHATI, June 13 ? Panic has gripped tea executives in the State, particularly those working in tea estates are passing through a lean phase financially, in view of the killing of three executives within a fortnight including the one lynched by tea workers at Moderkhat Tea Estate in Dibrugarh district yesterday. These brutal killings of tea executives by mobs of tea workers indicated that trouble is brewing in the tea gardens in the State. The tension between disgruntled tea workers who are feeling cheated by the failure of many cash-strapped managements to provide them with all the perks...

Guwahati, June 12: The Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) government will complete 100 days in office tomorrow, but dissent within the coalition continues to simmer.

As the government prepares a grand celebration in the state capital Kohima, some senior ministers appear peeved over being marginalised.

They are reportedly contemplating a written complaint to the Central leadership about chief minister Neiphiu Rio?s style of functioning.

A BJP minister from the state today said the largest constituent of the ruling coalition ? the Nagaland People?s Front (npf) ? was undermining the interest...

TURA, May 12 ? Unabated influx from across Bangladesh and neighbouring Assam is threatening the very existence of the Garo people residing in the plain belt areas of West Hills. The issue continues to be sensitive and very little is being done by the government to check this menace that threatens to change the demography of the region. The vast porous border coupled with seasonal floods adds to this influx. The continuous influx can be realised from the last Population Census in which areas of Muslim settlers had dramatic increase in their population. In some areas the population had...

Dibrugarh, June 12: Assam?s crisis-ridden tea industry today woke up to the shocking news of another tea executive being lynched by a group of irate labourers.

The victim, Mukul Dowerah, was assistant manager at Nandanmal tea estate in Dibrugarh district. He became the third garden executive to be murdered in Assam in less than two weeks. Labourers of Sapoi tea estate in Sonitpur district had lynched two managers and set fire to their bodies on May 30.

Dibrugarh police said seven labourers waylaid and killed 35-year-old Dowerah when he was returning to his office after a field visit on his...