Development / Assam

DIBRUGARH, February 22: The long pending issue of bifurcating the Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation (HFC) by establishing a separate corporate identity for its Namrup units continues to remain in a limbo, causing much consternation among workers of the Namrup units. The Namrup Fertilizer Shramik Union (NFSU), which has been spearheading an agitation for the bifurcation, is now afraid that political infighting among the NDA constituents may delay the matter further. Speaking to The Assam Tribune here today, the NFSU president, Tileswar Borah said that though the Union Ministry for Fertilizer and...

GUWAHATI February 20: Health Minister Kamala Kalita today informed the State Assembly that the State Government was planning to enact a legislation making it compulsory for Government doctors to serve in rural areas. In reply to cut motion on grant for Health Department, Kalita said a majority of Government doctors in the State were not willing to serve in rural areas. He also said mushrooming of nursing homes in urban areas of the State has opened large number of attractive job avenues for doctors who are averse to work in rural areas. He informed that almost all the States in the country...

DIPHU, February 19: The mega-size Amtereng hydro-electric project which is under construction at Hamren in Karbi Anglong district, is now fraught with security hurdles what with ultras threatening the labourers from outside the State working at the site to leave the area and are reportedly serving demand notes to the companies working at the project. The only big size hydro-electricity project (under construction) is located in the Amtereng site of Hamren sub-division of Karbi Anglong district. When completed this project is likely to generate and meet the entire requirement of electricity of...

SUTERKANDI (Karimganj), February 19: The opening of Rs 8.16 crore International Trade Centre at Suterkandi on the Indo-Bangladesh border in Karimganj district, is likely to change the socio-economic condition of entire Barak Valley as well as its neighbouring areas. This has been expressed by the people of Karimganj district while disclosing their views regarding the trade centre. The construction of the centre has already been started at the site. Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta has laid its foundation stone ceremonially last week. It may be recalled that the Government of Assam sent a...

SHILLONG, February 19: As many as 393 earthquakes were recorded by the Central Seismological Observatory, Shillong which shook parts of the Northeastern region and adjoining areas of Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan since 1980, but majority of these tremors were not felt in most parts of the region. Seismologists here are of the view that there is no reason to panic that a major earthquake is imminent in view of the big number earthquakes striking the region which is one of the most quakeprone areas in the entire world. Dismissing predictions of a major quake hitting the Northeast in the near...

GUWAHATI, February 19: Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta today asserted that construction of buildings in violation of the norms would not be tolerated and the Government has already instructed the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) that if necessary, such buildings should be demolished. Replying to a Zeo Hour question in the State Assembly, Mahanta said that the Government formed a five member committee to examine the houses in the city and to identify the houses constructed by violating the norms. He said that the Government has already issued instruction to the Deputy...

SILCHAR, February 17: Another hurdle in the way of the 1500-MW Tipaimukh hydel power project has been removed with tribal leaders spearheading a movement against it agreeing to the project. The Rs 3,200-crore project is the largest ever multipurpose scheme in the Northeast. Tribal leaders of a vigilante group named the Tipaimukh Hydro Electric Power Project Affected Villages Welfare Association, who had earlier opposed the project, have now veered round to put their seal of approval on it. Association president Chaltonlien Amo and association secretary S.L. Gangte, in a letter to Prime...

SHILLONG, February 18 (UNI): At least 393 earthquakes measuring between two and seven on the Richter scale have rocked parts of Northeast, besides border areas of Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan since 1980. But more than 80 percent of those tremors could hardly be felt in large parts of the region. According to the Central Seismological Observatory Center here, out of these tremors, 22 quakes measuring between 5 and 6.6 on the Richter could have shaken large parts of the region. Most of them had their epicenters on Indo-Bangladesh border near Silchar, Indo-Myanmar border near Mizoram and...

GUWAHATI, February 16: State Tourism Commissioner, Surajit Mitra today informed that there had been a steady rise in flow of domestic and foreign tourists to the State during the last three years. He informed that inflow of domestic tourists had registered a growth of 37 per cent during the same period indicating that the people were no longer bogged down by apprehension about disturbed situation in the State. He further informed that local investors had become more confident about market potential of tourism sector in the State saying that the department was receiving 'tremendous' offers from...

GUWAHATI, February 15: Guwahati Refinery of Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOC) is gearing up to meet the cleaner fuel requirements of the country in the coming year by undergoing extensive modernisation of its plants and equipment. Sources in the Refinery informed that one of the most important projects currently under execution is the Hydrotreater Unit, at a cost of Rs 497 crore which will enable the refinery to live upto future quality specification of High Speed Diesel. Another such project, Indane Maximization Unit (INDMAX) is currently being executed at a cost of Rs 86 crore. On...