ITANAGAR, Oct 19 ? Both the newly-elected Nationalist Congress Party legislators in Arunachal Pradesh have requested party president Sharad Pawar to ensure that they were given ministerial berths in the Gegong Apang ministry. The two legislators, Nikh Kamin and T Wanwham accompanied by Arunachal Pradesh party unit president Kabak Tacho, made the request when they called on Pawar at his New Delhi residence.

Tacho told PTI over phone from Delhi that they had asked Pawar to talk to the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in this regard. He said that the spirit of coalition between the NCP and the...

NEW DELHI, Oct 19: The needle of suspicion in the Dimapur bomb blasts pointed towards the involvement of the outlawed ULFA and ISI of Pakistan, Nagaland Chief Minister N Rio today told Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil.

The development came even as the Nagaland Chief Minister sought the intervention of the Ministry of Home Affair (MHA) in sorting out the Assam-Nagaland border dispute and complained about the shooting down of an innocent youth by CRPF in the inter-State border that led to sharp escalation of tension.

The Nagaland Chief Minister, accompanied by top State Government officials...

MANGALDOI, Oct 19: All is not well concerning the Bailey bridge over Mangaldoi river here. The bridge with a 9-tonne capacity is in such a precarious state today that it may split up any moment. An eventuality of the collapse of this bridge is fraught with the danger of severing the surface communication between Upper and Lower Assam.

The bridge being on National Highway-52, assumes significance today for the Upper and Central divisions of the State. Moreover, it is also important for the neighbouring States of Nagaland and Manipur besides Arunachal Pradesh as far as road communication is...

GUWAHATI, Oct 19 ? Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today promised to offer safe passage to the representatives of the proscribed NDFB if and when they come forward for talks with the Government. Welcoming the unilateral ceasefire offer of the outfit, he said that the agenda of future talks with the outfit would be decided once they make up their mind to come to the negotiating table.

Ahead of his departure for New Delhi tomorrow to meet Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil the next day, Gogoi told newspersons during a press conference here that no direct contact with the ultras have been established...

IMPHAL, Oct 18 ? With the formation of the Unified Command structure with the Chief Minister as the chairman, large scale counter-insurgency campaigns would be intensified in this sensitive border State.

Addressing a crowded press conference at his official residence here on Sunday, the Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh said that in the prevailing law and order situation and under the pressures of the voluntary organisations, the state and central forces will start counter-insurgency operations against the underground Kuki Revolutionary Army for rescuing the vice-president of the All Manipur...