KARBI ANGLONG, June 26 –Tension continued in the Dhansiri Reserve Forest area of central Assam's Karbi Anglong district following an attempt to construct houses and a church there by Nagas from across the border, reports PTI.

Official sources here said the people from across Nagaland were setting up houses and a church there on the land they claimed to have been sold by a fake NGO which provided them with false land deeds in the name of the district administration.

Security forces had been deployed in the area and district superintendent visited to ease the tension there and prevent the...

GUWAHATI, June 26 – State Hill Areas Minister G C Langthasa, while clarifying the position of the State Government regarding the whereabouts of the ULFA leaders allegedly missing since the operation launched by the Royal Bhutanese Army, called upon the ULFA leadership not to draw any connection between the kidnapping of his son by the ULFA with the disappearance of the outfit’s leaders.

In an official statement Langthasa said that he had a detailed discussion with the Chief Minister who categorically asserted that the State Government did not have any information regarding the whereabouts of...

GUWAHATI, June 26 – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has threatened to drop the promised loan to the Assam Government for power sector reforms because of the failure of the government to comply with the reform conditions. In a letter to the Department of Expenditure of the Finance Ministry, a copy of which was also forwarded to the Chief Secretary, Assam, the director of the ADB Sharmila Chavaly said that the Bank processed a loan for the power sector in Assam last year and about 250-million dollar loan was in the pipeline for the current calendar year.

But an internal review to ascertain the...

Imphal, June 25: Even as neighboring States like Nagaland and Meghalaya have worked out the model for the impending Ministry downsizing which will come into force from July 7, the Congress led SPF Government is still groping in the dark waiting for a nod at New Delhi from the AICC high command to the model worked out by the Steering Committee of the ruling Front. Chief Minister O Ibobi who left for New Delhi to meet AICC president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get their approval to the model worked out here is yet to be granted an audience by the two most important persons...

Shillong, June 25: Wary of offending any of his coalition partners while reducing the size of his government, Meghalaya chief minister D.D. Lapang is toying with the idea of creating three new welfare boards to accommodate ministry bigwigs who may have to be relieved of their portfolios. The ministry, with 41 members, is a massive one for a state that has only 60 legislators. The size of the ministry has to be reduced to 12 by July 6.

Sources said Lapang had already discussed the possibility of forming these new boards with leaders of the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA). The...