Neiphiu Rio first leader to be elected Nagaland CM thrice

Former bureaucrats are pushing politicians from key posts, feel party loyalists.  In a fresh round of changes announced for the governor's posts last week, former Central Bureau of Investigation director Ashwani Kumar joined a long line of retired babus to occupy a Raj Bhavan, fuelling widespread anger in the Congress. The party rank and file is understandably upset and agitated as it finds that former bureaucrats are increasingly pushing out politicians from key positions.Governorships ...

The Left Front retained its bastion Tripura while the Naga People's Front in Nagaland and Congress in Meghalaya are set to return to power in the northeast states where counting of votes was taken up on Thursday. FINAL VERDICT: Tripura-Left, Meghalaya-Cong, Nagaland-NPF The ruling Left Front in Tripura on Thursday stormed back to power for the fifth consecutive term since 1993 getting a three-fourths majority for the second straight time in the assembly elections. Inflicting a crushing blow on ...

Meghalaya witnessed a record 88 per cent and Nagaland 83.27 per cent polling in the Assembly elections that were held on Saturday. Counting is slated for February 28 for the two states besides Tripura. Barring a few minor incidents in Nagaland, elections to ...

Shillong: A practising physician, Mukul Sangma was active in Congress politics right from his student days and rose to become a leader from the Garo Hills region soon after P A Sangma left the party in the 1990s. Mukul Sangma sworn-in as Meghalaya CM Rio, 11 ...

Data and assessments from SAIR can be freely published in any form with credit to the South Asia Intelligence Review of the Print Misplaced Optimism Ajit Kumar Singh Research Fellow, There is an air of triumph and hope in Pakistan. A massive turnout ...

Why The Caged Parrot Is Singing There is a lot of buzz on why the CBI has been caught biting New director Ranjit Sinha is an honourable and upright man who thinks, after the CAG, it is CBI's turn As per new rules, the CBI chief has a fixed ...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, APR 21 (NPN) : Print Text Size Latest data released by Wikileaks on April 8 comprising of over 1.7 million US diplomatic records from 1973 to 1976, covering a variety of diplomatic traffic ...

National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Loksabha seats Rajyasabha seats India }} The Bharatiya Janata Party (; translation: Indian People's Party; abbreviated BJP) is one of the two major parties in the Indian political system, the other being the Indian ...

The Punchhi Commission in 2010 agreed with the 1988 Sarkaria Commission that governors be appointed from among eminent people in different walks of life and that they should not be from the state they are posted in. Proposed governors be appointed ...