AGARTALA: The Tripura Congress is in the grip of a fresh bout of infighting over nomination for the by-election to Town Bardowali Assembly constituency. The seat fell vacant in January this year following the death of former chief minister Sudhir Ranjan Mazumder.

IMPHAL/KOLKATA: Rebel groups are mounting attacks on security forces in Manipur from their camps in Myanmar, taking advantage of the inaction of the Myanmar army, it is learnt from security force sources. They are running a number of camps in Myanmar, along the international border.

AIZAWL: In contrast to the hot and humid climate of the Indian plains, Mizoram is a beautiful hilly region, a terrain so characteristically steep and green that one cannot help but admire. But, for a person with disabilities, particularly wheelchair-bound persons, inconvenience outweighs the admiration.

SILCHAR: A Congress leader and his brother were hospitalised in a critical condition after being attacked at their residence in Assam’s Cachar district in the wee hours today.

Police suspect the attackers were mostly slum-dwellers living near Congress leader Partha Chakrabarty’s three-storey building in Tarapur here.