GUWAHATI, Dec 1 ? The Assam Government is going ahead with the reform programme of the Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB) despite the opposition of the employees, and the Board is likely to be unbundled into three companies shortly.

Talking to The Assam Tribune here today, the Minister of State for Power, Pradyut Bordoloi, said that reform of the power sector is a must to improve the power scenario of the State and ?the people of Assam deserve better power supply.?

He alleged that some misinformation was spread over the issue of reforms and asserted that the Government is not going to...

NEW DELHI, Dec 1 ? The logjam has been removed and the Naga peace talks are back on tracks. The NSCN (I-M) leaders are tipped to arrive here later this week. The development came even as camps belonging to Khaplang faction of NSCN came under attack of Myanmar army across the border. The camps in which ULFA cadres were sheltered were also attacked, sources in Ministry of Home Affairs confirmed.

A spokesman of the Khaplang faction confirmed that Myanmar army launched attacks on their camps. He alleged that mostly innocent civilians were targeted by the army junta, adding that there was no...

SHILLONG, Nov 30 ? Meghalaya Agriculture Minister, HDR Lyngdoh has expressed the need for upgradation of the state?s basic agriculture training centre at Upper Shillong here into a full fledged Meghalaya Agriculture Training Institute with PhD courses to cater the need of the whole north-eastern region.

Lyngdoh made this observation when he along with the state Parliamentary Secretary for Horticulture, L Malngiang accompan visited the centre yesterday. He also inspected the sites for the proposed fruit and vegetable regulated market to be established by the state government in the area to...

AGARTALA, Nov 30 ? National Liberation Front of Tripura?s factional (NLFT-NB) leader Nayanbashi Jamatia has stressed on political dialogue with state and central governments to bring an end to the decade long militancy in the state.

Addressing a press meet here on Tuesday, Nayanbashi said that Indigenous Freedom Movement of Tripura (IFMOT), a newly floated organization of the outfit by him is keen to hold political dialogue in the coming days. As Nayanbashi will be out on a foreign tour it will be Bartholomew Borok, another influential leader of the outfit who will attend the next round of...

GOALPARA, Nov 30? On the last day of World Heritage Week (November 25), Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Guwahati circle has opened the long-awaited archaeological museum in the foothills of Sri Surya Pahar. Sri Surya Pahar about 12 km away from here is the historical and archaeological site where remnants of Gupta period and later civilisations belonging to Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism lie scattered and some items have been excavated during the last couple of years.

Dipak Kumar Goswami, deputy commissioner of Goalpara district inaugurated the museum and in his inaugural speech lauded...