<h1>Frontier Nagaland Territory Authority: seek assembly confidence before finalising autonomy settlement, tripartite talks continue.</h1> A state legislator urged the cabinet to obtain the assembly's collective confidence before finalising the proposed Frontier Nagaland Territory Authority. The chief minister said the matter is preliminary, that the state forwarded comments on the third draft memorandum to the national ministry, and that tripartite discussions with the regional organisation and the ministry are ongoing; the assembly will be taken into confidence in due course. The regional body has long sought a separate state but has temporarily accepted an autonomy arrangement offering executive, legislative and financial powers pending settlement.