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IMPHAL, May 28 – Manipur Government has decided to extend “disturbed area status” of the state for another six months from June 1 in spite of strong protests from various social organisations and communities, official sources said today, reports PTI. The decision to prolong the status under Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh here yesterday in view of the deteriorating law and order situation, the sources said.

They said the Act which was first imposed in September 1980 in the state had been in extension from time to...

Silchar, May 28: The beleaguered tea industry in the Barak Valley region has appealed to the Tarun Gogoi government to review its minimum wage notification for tea workers issued on February 1 last year. In particular, the tea estates in the Barak Valley, comprising Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts, have spurned a recent Assam government move to usher in parity in the payment of daily-rated wages between tea workers in the Brahmaputra and Barak Valleys.

Both the Indian Tea Association (ITA) and the Tea Association of India (TAI) made this clear at a high-level discussion with the...

GUWAHATI, May 27 – The markets of the North eastern region are flooded with spurious goods including building materials and a section of unscrupulous traders are duping the gullible customers even with fake ISI markings on the spurious goods.

The secretary of the Federation of Industries and Commerce of the North Eastern Region (FINER) Prasanta Goswami told The Assam Tribune that such spurious goods including building materials not only pose problems for the customers but also for the honest traders and manufacturers. He said that several members of the FINER have taken up the matter with the...

NEW DELHI, May 27— Royal Government of Bhutan’s Army operation against outlawed ULFA, NDFB and KLO militants, extension of the ongoing cease-fire with the NSCN and the problem of unabated infiltration from across the border have been reported by the Amnesty International in its annual report released last evening.

Chief Editor Tehelka Tarun Tejpal at a function here released the Amnesty International Report 2004 last evening. “The activities of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and the Kamtapur Liberation Front (KLO), armed...

NEW DELHI, May 27 – Reaffirming Centre’s commitment to resolve the insurgency problem, Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh today assured that all legitimate grievances of the separatist outfits would be looked into urging them to join the mainstream. Interacting with newsmen on the sideline of the release of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) at his 7 Race Course residence, Dr Singh said that though he has so far not applied his mind as to how to go about the Naga peace process, he said the Centre would strive to address all the legitimate grievances. “At the same time I would like to appeal to...