NEW DELHI, April 20 ? Nagaland Chief Minister SC Jamir on Friday met Home Minister LK Advani here and is understood to have held detailed discussions on the Naga peace process, reports PTI. The Home Minister also reviewed the law-and-order situation in the State, besides discussing issues concerning the Naga peace process, Home Ministry sources said. The process has been going on at a smooth pace with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee meeting the two top leaders of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Issak-Muivah) at Osaka, Japan last December. However, the State Government has been...

SHILLONG, April 20 ? The dispute over the construction of a church by the Mizoram Salvation Army has ended amicably with the Rangbah Shong (headman) of Madanriting village agreeing to allow the construction, reports PTI. The agreement was reached after a marathon meeting between Pastor Rev Lalrinpuia and the Rangbah Shong, Edmun Syiem on Friday. They sorted out problems relating to the damage to the walls by a group of youths in the presence of officer-in-charge of Madanriting police station, police said here on Saturday. The youths who had charged the church authorities with carrying on...

AGARTALA, April 20 ? The demand for removal of PCC president Birajit Sinha from the party unit chief?s post has been intensified. A group of 27 dissident PCC members and senior leaders of the party?s State unit led by MLA Kashiram Reang, MLA Dipak Roy and former MLA Tapas Dey left for New Delhi on Friday. The MLAs are known as followers of former Chief Minister Samir Ranjan Barman. Barman?s son and MLA Sudip Roy Barman, who is also Youth Congress president, is expected to fly for Delhi on Monday next. Some more including those MLAs who recently sent a memorandum to AICC for Sinha?s replacement...

GUWAHATI, April 20? Peeved at the delay in finding out an amicable solution to the Bodo problem through the creation of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), the Coordination Committee of Bodoland Movement (CCBM), spearheaded by the All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU) has decided to launch a fresh movement to put pressure on the government to ensure immediate steps for creation of the Council. Talking to The Assam Tribune, the president of the ABSU, Sri Rabiram Narzary said that the CCBM, as the first phase of the movement, will stage a demonstration at Dispur on April 22. He said that a delegation...

GUWAHATI, April 20 ?Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi?s latest appeal for negotiation during the festive season of Bihu has nothing new in it, said the proscribed ULFA here today. The ULFA in a faxed press release, said that the Chief Minister?s appeal was only a cover-up measure to hide the State Government?s conspiratorial attitude and lack of effectiveness in matters of resolving the ULFA issue through negotiation. Infact, the Chief Minister?s appeal is nothing but an attempt at befooling the people, it is full of hypocracy and product of a diabolic design, the banned outfit said.

It also called...