Following are the top stories from Eastern Region at 2100 hours.
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Kohima: The Nagaland political crisis takes a new turn with the state cabinet turning down Governor P B Acharya's directive to Chief Minister Shurhozelie Liezietsu to call an emergency assembly session by July 15 to seek trust vote.
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Darjeeling: The agitators demanding a separate Gorkhaland today set aflame a GTA office, a railway station and a forest bungalow and damaged several vehicles amid the unabated violence and arson here in Darjeeling hills on the 29th day of the indefinite shutdown.
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Aizawl: Major political parties, NGOs and students associations in Mizoram have asked the prime minister not to finalise the Naga Framework Agreement without solving the political problems of the Mizos living in the hill areas of Manipur.
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Guwahati: Union minister Kiren Rijiju says a high level inter-ministerial team would visit Assam within a month to asses damages by the floods, which have claimed at least 44 lives so far.
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Kohima: Incessant rains across Nagaland has led to flash floods and landslides in several areas of the state.
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Dhubri(Assam): A BSF jawan has gone missing from an inundated border outpost in Assam's Dhubri district and is feared to have drowned.
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Kolkata: The National Hydel Power Corporation has shut down both it's hydel power plants in Darjeeling hills and has sought additional security for them from the West Bengal government.
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Patna: Mediapersons meet Bihar police chief P K Thakur demanding action against policemen attached as security to Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav and his minister brother Tej Pratap Yadav for assaulting scribes on duty.
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Kolkata: Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya says his department is working hard to lay the Code on Wages Bill in the Parliament in the upcoming monsoon session.
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Ranchi: Stating that Jharkhand has made speedy development in the last two and a half years and got stamp of approval on different yardsticks at the national level, Chief Minister Raghubar Das says the state is second after Gujarat in growth rate.
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