Development

IMPHAL, July 17 ? Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh has said action would be taken against the Assam Rifles personnel who had picked up 30-year-old Th Manorama Devi from her house in Baman Kampu area on July 10, reports PTI. The state government had asked the Assam Rifles authorities to hand over the three personnel who signed the memo served to the family of Th. Manorama Devi at the time of her arrest, he said in a statement here on Friday.

Appealing to the people to remain calm, Singh said MP from the state T. Meinya Singh had raised the issue in Parliament during Zero Hour, drawing the...

SHILLONG, July 17 ? With no let-up in the flood situation in Garo Hills areas, a high-level state official team reached Tura to assess the situation even as distribution of relief materials among the affected people was on, reports PTI. West Garo Hills district Deputy Commissioner S Jagannathan told PTI from Tura that rice, dal and salt were being distributed for the last three days to the affected people in 32 temporary shelters. Extra quantities of kerosene oil were also arranged for the homeless people. As Rs 5 lakh was sanctioned by the government for undertaking relief work, medicine and...

GUWAHATI, July 17 ? Assam Foundation of North America, Inc (AFNA), a non-profit making, charitable organization founded in 1982 and registered as a tax-exempt organisation under the Internal Revenue Services Department of the Government of USA and working for the sole purpose of charitable causes in Assam, India and North America, recently held its annual general body meeting during the Assam Convention 2004 at the Renaissance hotel in Austin, Texas.

The meeting started with the presentation of the financial statement by the outgoing committee, which showed that, in the last two years, about...

GOLAGHAT, July 17 ? The 100-hour annasaw programme launched by the four students? organisations namely Nikhil Bodo Students? Union, All Assam Students? Union, Assam Gorkha Students Union and All Assam Co-ordination Committee of Students? Union concluded their fast on July 13. The students? unions launched ?annasaw? programme at Golaghat in order to fulfil their charter of demands like solution of the Assam-Nagaland border problems, distribution of land pattas to the local people etc.

Meanwhile, several students activists fell ill due to fasting. The sufferers are Amardeep Orang, Puspa...

GUWAHATI, July 17: Floods have taken a serious toll of the National Parks and Wild Life sanctuaries of Assam and it will take quite some time to restore the infrastructure damaged in the current wave of floods. Talking to The Assam Tribune, the Minister of State for Forest, Pradyut Bordoloi said that floods caused severe damage to the infrastructure of the National Parks and Wild Life sanctuaries of the State and according to a conservative estimate, an amount of about two crore of Rupees would be required to restore the same. He said that the camps of the Forest Department personnel inside...

GUWAHATI,July 17 ? A high-level delegation of Myanmar is arriving in the State soon to initiate discussion on import of diesel from the Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL). Myanmar is keen to buy diesel from the NRL in order to reduce its transportation cost. Talking to this correspondent, LS Kumar, adviser (marketing) of NRL said that the delegation would come to carry forward its deal with the company. ? Their requirement is one thousand metric tonne (1TMT) per month and we are ready to meet their requirement?, Kumar said over telephone from New Delhi.

With the increasing production in the...

NEW DELHI, July 17 ? None of the senior Congress leaders from North Eastern Region barring former Mizoram Chief Minister, Lal Thanhawla found place in the reshuffled AICC. The keenly awaited reshuffle proved to be bad news for the Congress leaders of the Region as the new look AICC would have only one face from North-east. Former Mizoram Chief Minister replaces Minister of State for Defence, Bijoy Krishna Handique in the all-powerful Congress Working Committee (CWC) as permanent invitee. That apart, Kirip Chaliha has been appointed as a whip in the reconstituted Congress Parliamentary Party...

GUWAHATI, July 17 ? The overall flood situation in the State has remained unchanged. The death toll in the current wave of flood which completed its twenty-fourth day today, has gone up to 62 with reports of recovery of three more bodies of the victims of the floods in Saonapur and Sipajhar areas. A three-member assessment team of the International Federation of Redcross and Red Crescent Societies from the Red Cross National Headquarters, New Delhi visited the flood-affected areas of Kamrup and Nalbari districts on July 14 and 15.

The team has emphasised on the post-flood operations like...

DIMAPUR, July 16 ? Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has rewarded JD (U) leader Deo Nukhu, a former minister and one of the two legislators of the party in the state Assembly with deputy chairmanship of State Planning Board with Cabinet status. Political observer in the State are of the view that Rio has rewarded Nukhu for embarrassing his party president Huska Sumi for dismissing the latter?s statement that the party had withdrawn support to the Rio Government.

Nukhu, a first timer who opened the account of Samata Party in Nagaland winning the prestigious Chizami seat under Phek district...

ITANAGAR, July 16 ? The overall flood situation in Arunachal Pradesh has improved with rains stopping and waters of rivers receding. Official sources said four districts of the state namely Lohit, East Siang, East Kameng and lower Debang valley were the worst affected due to the flood. About one lakh people were affected in the four districts.

Hundreds of hectars of standing crops were washed away, cultivable lands damaged, many government and private buildings destroyed and power and water supply system snapped. As an immediate relief the government had already announced Rs 10 lakh each to...