GUWAHATI, February 12: Majority of tea brokers operating in Guwahati are worried over the future of their business in the wake of amendment effected by the Union Ministry of Commerce to the Tea Marketing (Control) Order (TMCO), 1984, according liberty to tea companies to decide on their own whether to route their produce through registered public tea auction centres or go for private selling outside the auction centre. As per the TMCO, 1984 every registered tea manufacturer in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala were required to sell not less than 75 per cent of the tea manufactured by...

GUWAHATI, February 12: The development interests of India's Northeast region are such that it must try to get an assured market for greater utilisation of its natural resources and go for joint venture processing and manufacturing units with Bangladeshi entrepreneurs, setting up growth zones along its international boundary bordering Bangladesh, said Gurudas Das of the Omiyo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development here today. Das, who was addressing a day-long seminar on "India's Northeast and Bangladesh: Problems and Opportunities", organised by the Centre for Northeast Studies...

PATHSALA, February 10: An environmental study report prepared by Dulal Goswami, Professor and Head of the Department of Environmental Science, GU has been submitted recently to the Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) on the Kothar Ali, a PWD road in Barpeta district to facilitate its conversion to a National Highway (NH). BRTF officials also assisted him in preparing the survey report. It may be mentioned here that much water has flowed down the Brahmaputra since the proposal for conversion of the road to a NH on mutual understanding and co-operation between the Ministry of External Affairs...

AGARTALA, February 12: A high-level meeting of officials will be held here tomorrow to work out details about barbed fence along Tripura-Bangladesh border. The Chief Minister, Manik Sarkar, will address the meeting. Senior officials of the Union home ministry alongwith the BSF and the BRTF will be present at the meeting. Though the work on fencing was earlier scheduled to be started during current financial year, an official said, it would take some more time to finalise certain pending decisions. Dearth of funds may hamper work of the barbed wire fence. The scheme of putting up barbed fence...

AGARTALA, February 12: Militants of banned National Liberation Front of Twipra (NLFT) snatched a carbine from a CRPF jawan while two militants of the outfit have been banned in separate incidents in West Tripura district, police said here today, reports PTI. A group of militants suddenly overpowered a CRPF jawan at Mungiabari when he was on road patrolling duty yesterday and snatched his carbine. Police said, when the jawan raised alarm, his colleagues who were on the same duty a bit away from him rushed at him but the ultras disappeared before they reach, police said. However, the insurgents...