GUWAHATI, June 24 – The Centre’s move to hand over the Amguri oilfield to a Canadian firm on July 1 has run into a roadblock with the All India Petroleum Workers’ Federation (AIPWF) and the ONGC Workers’ Association (OWA) vowing to stall the move. The two organisations have called a 24-hour strike in all the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) installations in the State on that day to protest the Government move.

Addressing newspersons here today, former Assam Minister and president of the AIPWF and OWA, Promode Gogoi, condemned the decision of the Petroleum Ministry to hand over the...

GUWAHATI, June 24 – Though the decision to computerise and update the National Register of Citizens (NRC), 1951 was taken in a tripartite meeting on the implementation of the Assam Accord way back in 1999, even the process of computerising existing portions of the vital document has not yet been completed.

The issue of preserving and updating the NRC figured in almost all the tripartite and bipartite talks on the implementation of the Assam Accord since 1999 but the process of computerisation started only in Dhubri district and so far the State Government has not been able to start the work...

GUWAHATI, June 24 – The State is experiencing the first wave of flood this year with many of the rivers inundating several areas. Army personnel have been engaged in providing relief to the flood affected people in Goreswar areas of Kamrup district. Floodwaters had reportedly washed away a 7 year-old boy in the Goreswar areas yesterday.

The Brahmaputra was rising throughout its course between Tezpur and Dhubri this afternoon and according to the Central Water Commission (CWC) sources here, this evening, the river would continue to rise between Tezpur and Dhubri during the next 24 hours since...

Shillong, June 23: More than 30 ministers of the Congress led-Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) have resigned to provide chief minister D.D. Lapang room to reconstitute his government. The members of the coalition partners in the cabinet had recently decided to quit en masse so that Lapang would not have to drop his ministers to comply with the downsizing law.

According to the latest law passed by Parliament, the Meghalaya cabinet can have only 12 members, which means that the ruling MDA has to downsize its ministry from the existing 41 in a House of 60. The deadline for finalising the new...

Imphal, June 23: Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh and Lok Sabha member Thokchom Meinya Singh today rushed to New Delhi with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, asking for the list of legislators who will make up the new Secular Progressive Front (SPF) ministry.

Meinya Singh said before leaving for the capital that the AICC had devised a formula to prevent dissidence. “We hope there will be no problem during the downsizing exercise. We will urge Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister not to tolerate lobbying for ministry berths.”

The size of the 33-member...