IMPHAL, February 20: The People's front ministry led by Radhabinod Koijam is likely to be expanded on coming Friday or latest by Saturday in the presence of Union Defence Minister George Fernandes, Samata Party General Secretary Mrs Jaya Jaitley and Union MoS Railway Digvijay Singh. The Chief Minister, presently at New Delhi heading a high power delegation of People's Front to discuss the expansion of ministry and other financial matters with the central leaders will arrive here tomorrow. This was announced by Samata Party MLA, Nimaichand Luwang at a crowded press conference held at the Chief...

GUWAHATI, February 19: Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta today asserted that construction of buildings in violation of the norms would not be tolerated and the Government has already instructed the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) that if necessary, such buildings should be demolished. Replying to a Zeo Hour question in the State Assembly, Mahanta said that the Government formed a five member committee to examine the houses in the city and to identify the houses constructed by violating the norms. He said that the Government has already issued instruction to the Deputy...

BORDUMSA, February 19: The 30,000-odd people belonging to the Singpho community spread over the Changlang and Lohit districts of Arunachal Pradesh are an aggrieved lot today over non-introduction of Singpho dialect at the school level. The community has taken umbrage at the apathy of the authorities concerned over the lack of provision for introducing the Singpho dialect in the schools especially in areas dominated by the community despite innumerable number of pleas made by the masses in this regard. Office-bearers of the Singpho Development Society told The Assam Tribune that the Roman...

SHILLONG, February 19: As many as 393 earthquakes were recorded by the Central Seismological Observatory, Shillong which shook parts of the Northeastern region and adjoining areas of Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan since 1980, but majority of these tremors were not felt in most parts of the region. Seismologists here are of the view that there is no reason to panic that a major earthquake is imminent in view of the big number earthquakes striking the region which is one of the most quakeprone areas in the entire world. Dismissing predictions of a major quake hitting the Northeast in the near...

NEW DELHI, February 19: The best sauce for food may be hunger, but not for a boy from Assam, Patesh Kumar Talukdar, who is vying for a world record in eating maximum number of hot chillies in a minute, besides boosting his capacity to eat as many as 18 indigestible items. The 27-year-old undergraduate from Mirza is aiming to storm his way into the Guinness Book of World Record by beating the reigning world record holder in his own game. "The current world record is for eating 45 hot chillies in a minute, while I can eat 50 chillies of any variety in 35 seconds," boasted Talukdar, who is in the...