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Decide Sangma`s tribal status, says Supreme Court

Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 21:12

The Supreme Court Monday directed the National Commission on Scheduled Tribes to decide the tribal status of Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma within eight weeks.

PM to meet northeast chief ministers Monday

Last Updated: Sunday, January 19, 2014, 13:40

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet the chief ministers of eight northeastern states Monday in New Delhi to review the ongoing infrastructural projects in the region, officials said here Sunday.

Tribal refugees return home to Mizoram from Tripura

Last Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 15:28

All the over 250 Reang tribals, including women and children, who had fled to Tripura from nearby western Mizoram earlier this week, have since returned home, officials in the Tripura capital said.

Bomb explosion at Moreh in Manipur

Last Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 11:25

Suspected militants exploded a powerful bomb at the border post of a security force at Moreh in Manipur.

NCW to set up North East cell

Last Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 23:40

The National Commission for Women (NCW) will establish a cell in the North-East considering cases related to the region.

`Northeast India will have surplus power by June`

Last Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 15:43

The industry-starved north-eastern region of India would be a power surplus area by June, when ONGC`s 726 MW power project starts full capacity generation, a top official said here Thursday.

NPP to contest district council polls with UDP in Meghalaya

Last Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 15:18

Opposition National Peoples Party (NPP) in Meghalaya will contest the coming Autonomous District Council elections in Khasi and Jaintia Hills along with United Democratic Party (UDP).

Bomb explodes at the house of Congress MLA

Last Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 12:06

A powerful bomb hurled by suspected militants exploded at the house of a Congress legislator in Sangaiporou area on the outskirts of the capital complex, but no one was injured, police said Thursday.

Pro-ILP activists in Meghalaya suspend agitation

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 18:46

Pressure groups in Meghalaya demanding implementation of the 140-year-old Eastern Bengal Frontier Regulation Act on Wednesday suspended their four-month-long agitation.