TURA, February 26: The Congress I in Meghalaya, led by former Chief Minister Salseng C Marak, has expressed its unhappiness over the functioning of the present UDP-NCP-BJP government in the State. The Opposition Congress has now decided to constitute an Economic Affairs Committee (EAC) under the Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) to look into the problems faced by the common people. This was disclosed by Marak at Tura on Friday morning while addressing party workers at the Congress Bhawan. Marak is on a three-day tour of the entire Garo Hills, except the plain belt areas of West Garo...

IMPHAL, February 26: The crisis that gripped the People's Front regime following the resignation of three Cabinet Ministers from the Council of Ministers have blown over after a compromise was worked out and the three Ministers agreed to withdraw their resignation letters. Health and Family Welfare Ministers Nimaichand Luwang, Veterinary and Animal Husbandry and Art and Culture Minister, M Manihar and Cooperation Minister Kh Amutombi had submitted their resignations to the Chief Minister citing dissatisfaction over the ministry expansion and to ensure the 'stability' of the PF Government on...

IMPHAL, February 26: Yet another split in the Federal Party of Manipur has been effected with two members of the party, W Thoiba and K Raina breaking away and announcing the formation of the Democratic Federal Party of Manipur. The Speaker has also granted recognition to the breakaway group and a formal notification to this effect has been issued. The Speaker ordered that the two members will be henceforth treated as a separate group and separate sitting arrangement in the House have been ordered. The two were not included in the Council of Ministers of the PF regime though two other members...

GUWAHATI, February 25: The tea estates in the State are illegally occupying altogether 20,267 bigha, 2 katha and 8 lechas of Government land and the State Government has been initiating a legal process to free plots of land from the encroachment of the tea estates, said Revenue Minister Zoii Nath Sarma on the floor of the State Assembly recently. Sarma was replying to a unstarred question put by MLA Kalyan Kumar Gogoi. Gogoi in his question wanted to know as to what size of Government land was under the encroachment of State's tea estates, he also requested for the break-up showing the amount...

NEW DELHI, February 26: For the second year in a row, the Railway Budget held out nothing new for the Northeast, provoking sharp reaction among the members from the region. Members belonging to the Assam Congress besides S K Bwismuthiary stormed to the Well of the House to lodge their protest. While no new trains were introduced in the region, the Railway Budget also did not have any provision to increase frequency of the existing trains from the region. The prominent among the demands for increasing the frequencies were the Rajdhani Express and the Guwahati-Dadar Express. The frequencies of...