Development / Northeast

IMPHAL, August 4: The All Manipur Students' Union, has expresses deep concern at the publication of a news item in a Shillong based daily, to the effect that the AMSU had pressurised students of the CAU, who hail from outside Manipur, to leave the state. AMSU representatives told media persons at a press meet that the AMSU had never pressurised CAU students from neither outside the state to leave nor for shifting of the CAU from Manipur, and questioned the grounds on which the allegations had been made. Remarking that the situation at CAU remained tense in the aftermath of the attempt by...

IMPHAL, August 4: A one man enquiry committee to be headed by the deputy director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural research, ICAR, SL Mehta, has been instituted to investigate the reasons behind the attempted mass exodus of non local hostellers of the Central Agricultural University, CAU, at Iroishemba, according to a CAU press release. The term of enquiry of the one-man committee would also be to identify responsible person for the attempted flight, if any. Meanwhile, although complete normalcy has still not been brought to the crisis, it definitely seems to be very close by...

IMPHAL, August 4: Following the announcement of an inquiry into the Central Agriculture University (CAU) incidents by the Deputy Chief Minister of the state, Leishangthem Chandramani Singh, the situation in the university campus has totally calmed down. It may be noted that a total of 96 students from Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh,Tripura and Mizoram had tried to run away from the Irishemba Agriculture University hostels packing all their belongings on August 2 morning. The Deputy Chief Minister, who is the Chief Minister-in-charge, said that certain developments had come up regarding the...

IMPHAL, August 3: In what could be construed as a blow to the academic atmosphere in the entire north-eastern region, all the students of the Central Agriculture University (CAU) at Irsishemba here, barring Manipuri and Sikkim students, have made a vain bid to leave the varsity campus and the state alleging harassment. However, they were intercepted by a strong team of Manipur Police in time and were sent back to their respective hostels with their bag and baggages on Wednesday. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, SS Bhagel, while talking to The Assam Tribune said that he had no idea about...

IMPHAL, August 2: Altogether 96 students from Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh, who were studying at College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Iroishemba, abruptly fled the college early this morning without informing the authorities and tried to leave the state, but were stopped by the police. The fleeing students were forcibly taken back to the college later this afternoon but not before a tussle with the police that left several students injured. The 96 students, including a number of girls, left their hostels with their luggage early this morning without...

GUWAHATI, July 26: The Gauhati High Court has issued directives to the NEEPCO, ASEB and the Assam Govt to prepare a scheme, whereby the outstanding dues to NEEPCO amounting to approximately Rs 670 crore, can be liquidated. The division bench also directed the state and ASEB to pay Rs 20 crores per month in the next two months to NEEPCO for power supplied to ASEB. The PIL filed regarding the threatened action of the NEEPCO to discontinue power supply has been posted for further orders after two months. Chief Justice Brijesh Kumar and Justice DN Chowdhury indicated in their order that while...

AGARTALA, July 23: India and Dhaka will sign an agreement next month to start Agartala-Dhaka bus service after the successful running of the 'Souhardha' service between Calcutta and Dhaka, reports UNI. A senior official told newspersons here on Sunday that a 16-member joint Indo-Bangla official team had recently conducted an-the-spot survey to examine the 144-km-long road with its infrastructural facilities to commence the service. The joint working group that held a meeting with Tripura Chief Secretary V Thulasidas on this subject on July 18 came here by road. The senior officials of the two...

GUWAHATI, July 23: Despite perennial insurgency, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NF Rly) has earned Rs 684.04 crore during 1999-2000. Out of Rs 684.04 crore, the Frontier has generated Rs 432.27 crore and Rs 184.99 crore from goods and passengers respectively. According to official statistics, earnings of the previous year (1998/99) stood at Rs 592.27 crore as against the financial target of Rs 544.05 crore. Sources said that due to suspension of night-running trains in the wake of spurt in activities of the insurgent groups particularly in Lower Assam, the overall earnings had gone down to...

AGARTALA, July 22: The Northeastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) will sell power to Bangladesh from its proposed 500-MW giant thermal power project, to be set up at Santi Nagar in West Tripura, reports UNI. NEEPCO's technical director Sunil Baran Dey told newsmen here on Saturday that the surplus 300 MW power would be sold to Bangladesh, which had been facing a severe power crisis. Remaining 200 MW would be given to Tripura and National Power Grid, Dey said, adding, the Central Electricity Authority would soon submit its report for this proposed project, to be set up at a cost of Rs...

GUWAHATI, July 21: At a time when the Centre is talking about to bring in revolution in the information technology, one of its important wing, the Army, has not only been opposing the expansion of cellular networking in the Northeastern states but have also asked to withdraw the pager services from the region. Expressing apprehension that militants may use these services, the 4 Corps Army Headquarters has asked the ministry concerned not to grant permission for the expansion of the cellular networks in the region, including Assam. This has left the cellular operators high and dry, even as...