AGARTALA, March 2: A breakthrough in the six-day-long stand-off in the budget session of Tripura Assembly could be achieved today following an all-party meeting. The meeting decided to withdraw the suspension of three Congress MLAs Ratan Lal Nath, Sudip Roy Barman and Dipak Roy while the Opposition Congress will allow the House to proceed. The Opposition party which stalled the first five days of Assembly business demanding apology from IGP, Kishore Jha, for his alleged 'abuse and assault' on the Congress members, has agreed to 'forgive and forget' the IGP issue. As per all party resolution...

IMPHAL, March 2: The Governor of Manipur, Ved Prakash Marwah, has prorogued the eventful third session of the seventh Manipur legislative Assembly. Further, the Governor has summoned the fourth session of the Assembly, which will be the budget, session for the financial year 2000-2001 on March 19 next at 11 am in the state Assembly Hall. The Raj Bhawan issued a press release to this effect today. It may be mentioned that the Radhabinod Koijam ministry, in its first Cabinet meeting, held on February 28, had recommended to the Governor to prorogue the 3rd session of the Assembly and to convene...

GUWAHATI, March 2: The CPM today took strong exception to a revelation by the ruling Asom Gana Parishad that it was holding parleys with partners of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance for a poll tie-up. CPM leaders also denied claims by the AGP that the Left parties were taken into confidence before discussions were held with NDA partners. "Our party is yet to hold any discussion with the AGP about the coming Assembly elections. If the AGP has been holding discussions with any other party on any electoral understanding, then they have been doing it on their own and we were not told about...

AGARTALA, March 2: The five-day deadlock over proceedings in Tripura Assembly showed signs of ending today as Speaker Jiten Sarkar withdrew the suspension order slapped on three Congress legislators for unruly conduct in the House yesterday. The Congress has been demanding that inspector-general of police (intelligence) Kishore Jha be reprimanded for his alleged misconduct with Congress MLAs in the House on February 23. Yesterday, three MLAs, Sudip Roy Barman, Ratan Lal Nath and Dipak Roy, were suspended after they accused the Speaker of being "chieftain of dacoits" and threw potatoes and...

GUWAHATI, March 4: With Assembly elections around the corner, political equations are quickly changing in the State. The People's Democratic Front (PDF), a leading political party of the Bodo community, has geared up its activities. This time the PDF has favoured electoral alliance with the 'small indigenous groups' in a bid to bring all tribal people together. The heavyweight of the party has already initiated parleys with like-minded 'indigenous groups' for electoral alliance to achieve desired results in the election. It is learnt that the leadership of the party is disappointed with the...