DIBRUGARH, February 11: An attempt at serious soul searching was made at the history conference of the 66th session of the Asam Sahitya Sabha, currently on at the Sahityarathi Kshetra here these days. The conference was held on Friday morning. Inaugurating the conference, Jogendra Narayan Bhuyan said the Assamese society has been facing its toughest challenges since the days of the anti-foreigner agitation. He said the State's population saw in the last two decades of the just- concluded century phenomena which never existed earlier nor could be imagined . He attributed this chiefly to the...

IMPHAL, February 11: The Miss Kangleipak Chanu, 2001 will be held on March 8 in connection with the International Women's Day at the Bheigyachandra Open Air Theatre. This was announced by Vishwamitra, advisor of the United Trading Company Limited, which is organizing the beauty pageant, at a press conference held in the conference hall of Imphal Cable Network, Maan Pasand building here this morning. Vishwamitra said that the company has been planning to organise Miss Kangleipak Chanu contest since 1999. As per an agreement, it was decided that there should be only one state level beauty...

GUWAHATI, February 11: There are a lot of commonalities between India's Northeast and Bangladesh which can be harnessed for mutual benefit, especially in the economic sphere. Ranked almost parallelly in terms of development, the people of these two areas could benefit immensely if economic integration could be brought about. That was the crux of a discussion on "India's Northeast and Bangladesh Problems of Opportunities" that was held at the Vivekananda Kendra here this evening. Organised by The Centre for Northeast Studies and Policy Research (C-NES), New Delhi, in association with The Assam...

KOHIMA, February 9: The Northeast, which has been ranked sixth among the top 25 biodiversity spots in the world, is all set to receive its first state-of-the-art biotechnical research institute at Imphal, reports UNI. Official sources here said that in order to study and document the unique biodiversity of the region, the Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD) had been set up at Imphal in Manipur. It would have state-of-the-art biotechnical research facilities and the institute would be dedicated to find out sustainable development and utilisation of the resources and...

GUWAHATI, February 11: The people of Bhutan have expressed their willingness to take up arms, if necessary, to evict the ULFA and Bodo militants from Bhutan, said a report in the Himalayan Kingdom's state run weekly Kuensel. Pressure is mounting on the Government of Bhutan to evict the ULFA and NDFB militants from the territory of Bhutan as the Bhutanese people have expressed concern over the presence of the militants. The continued presence of the ULFA and Bodo militants has become an increasingly serious threat to the security and sovereignty of the country and could take away the peace and...