KOHIMA, August 2: The Kohima Bench of the Gauhati High Court has directed Nagaland government to implement the agreement between it and an apex employees' association, giving effect to disbursal of salary to them as recommended by the Fifth Central Pay panel by September 30 next. Disposing a public interest litigation in the wake of the prolonged non-cooperation by government employees in June, the bench comprising Justice N C Jain and Justice W A Shishak directed the state government to make sincere efforts to implement the five-clause pact reached between it and Confederation of All Nagaland...

KOHIMA: August 1: The Aos are celebrating the weeklong "Tsungrem Mong" festival from Sunday. Tsungrem Mong, a pre-harvest festival, is the second biggest festival of the Ao tribe after the "Moatsu", which is celebrated in the first week of May. The significance of the festival is to pray for bountiful harvest. The weeklong festivities include colourful traditional dances, merry-making and community feasts.

GUWAHATI, Aug 1- A worldwide campaign, at the behest of Amnesty International, will be launched on November 27 to protest against the November 27, 1997, verdict of the Supreme Court granting validity to the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act. Human rights activists the world over will wear black badges and present memoranda to the Supreme Court urging it to review its order. The call to this effect was given by human rights activists in a workshop on human rights under the aegis of Amnesty International held at Bhubaneswar in Orissa recently. The workshop, however, opposed a resolution put...

DHAKA, Aug 1 - Bangladesh will ask New Delhi to provide facility for transit of its goods through India to Nepal and Bhutan in lieu of the transhipment of Indian goods through its territory and seek duty-free access for 25 export products to Indian market, its commerce minister Tofail Ahmed said here today. Ahmed said Dhaka will seek duty-free access for the export products on a non-reciprocal basis when modalities for transhipment of Indian goods are discussed at the next meeting of the joint committee of experts. Ahmed said during his meeting with Indian commerce minister Ramakrishna Hegde...

KOHIMA, August 1: The 24 MW Likhimro hydel power project in the Tuensang district of Nagaland is likely to be commissioned by March next year, according to Nagaland power minister K Therie. The minister said during the lean season, only one turbine out of three with eight MW, will able to generate 8 MW. The state government is contemplating to set up a 24 MW thermal power project at Dimapur at an estimated cost of Rs 88 crore. The thermal project will run by furnace oil to be carried from the Numaligarh refinery in Golaghat district of Assam. So far, a Calcutta-based company has expressed...