GUWAHATI, March 14: "It was the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) president, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, the Chief Minister himself who proposed before the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee that the AGP and BJP should fight jointly the forthcoming Assembly polls in Assam," claims State BJP president Rajen Gohain. The State BJP president revealed this during a press conference here in presence of senior party leaders including Union Water Resources Minister, Bijoya Chakraborty, former Union Minister Kabindra Purkayastha. Gohain said the AGP chief made the proposal before Vajpayee during their meeting at...

AIZAWL, March 14: Mizoram government is yet to give its reply to the offer for peace dialogue by the Bru National Front (BNLF), according to a top government officials, reports PTI. The officials who preferred to remain anonymous told PTI that the BNLF general secretary Solomon Prophul had written a letter to the state's Home Minister Tawnluia offering peace dialogue with the participation of officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs and representatives of the Bru Welfare Association of Mizoram. The BNLF also conditions for talks saying the venue should be outside Mizoram, either at Kolkata...

KOHIMA, March 13: The Nagaland Government has constituted complaint cells for sexual harrassment of women at their work places in accordance with guidelines and norms prescribed by the Supreme Court, reports PTI. The Complaints Committee, formed with Power and Higher and Technical Education Secretary, B Jamir, as chairperson, will now prepare annual report and submit the same to Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms detailing the complaints made to it and actions taken thereof, an official notification said here on March 12. Any woman government employee, who becomes the victim of...

AIZAWL, March 13: Women in Mizoram have asked the Church to consider ordain of women as elders or pastors, reports UNI. The state-level Zoram Presbyterian Kohhram Hmeichhia or the Mizoram Presbyterian Church Women Fellowship adopted a resolution here that the Church should also consider women for the post of elder or pastor in future. At present, while there was no written rule prohibiting women from being ordained, no woman has so far been appointed as pastor or elder by the Church in the past 100 years, an elder said.

NEW DELHI, March 13: The Union Home Ministry has released about Rs 55 crore to five NE States to help them meet their expenses on various schemes, including reimbursement of security-related expenditure, reports PTI. While the ministry released Rs 81.34 lakh towards full payment to Pawan Hans Helicopter Limited for chopper operations in Jammu & Kashmir, it also released Rs 1.5 crore for issue of photo-identity cards for people living along the Line of Control and the international border, a Home Ministry spokesman said. An amount of Rs 39.08 crore was also released to J & K Government for...