GUWAHATI, Nov 29? The North Eastern Small Scale Industries Association (NESSIA) has vehemently opposed West Bengal?s move to include North Bengal in North Eastern Council and called for immediate rescission of the move. This was stated in a press release.

Considering the move as ill-conceived, Sailen Baruah, NESSIA State president said that the association viewed that the proposed inclusion of North Bengal in the North Eastern Council would enable them to avail the same benefit of tax concession, excise and sibsidised power etc, under the North East industrial policy 1997, and will have a...

GUWAHATI, Nov 29 ? Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has mooted the preparation of a blueprint to deal with the problem of unemployment in the entire North East. The blueprint would seek to adopt a ?radical approach? beyond merely offering government jobs, Minister of State for Planning and Development Himanta Biswa Sarma disclosed today.

Trying to defend the recent visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, which has been severely attacked by the Opposition parties as having failed to yield anything substantial to the State in terms of funds, Sarma said during a press conference here that Singh had...

IMPHAL, Nov 29, ? Indian Army have claimed that it has destroyed a major camp of the separatist Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) in an interior area of Churachandpur district in Manipur bordering Myanmar and Mizoram. The advancing Indian troops have started deploying in Khongtal areas in Chandel district of Manipur sharing border with Myanmar for large-scale counter-insurgency operations there, official sources said here on Monday.

Army using the Remote Sensing Satellite System had detected at least 120 militant camps in interior parts of the three districts of Churachandpur, Chandel and...

GUWAHATI, Nov 29 ? The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) today made it clear that talks with the Government of India would be possible only when the Government recognises the genuine demand of the outfit.

Talking to The Assam Tribune over telephone from an undisclosed location, the ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah said, ?The ball is in the court of the Government of India. If the Government of India recognises our genuine demand for sovereignty, we shall come forward for discussions.?

The ULFA leader asserted that the sovereignty of Assam is not negotiable. ?We are not interested in...

TURA, Nov 28 ?The Meghalaya Government has set up two ropeway projects, the first ever, in the Garo Hills at Timbogre and Chinabat to Chiwategre interior villages under Rongram C&RD Block of West Garo Hills. The two projects were inaugurated on November 25.

The ropeway from Chinabat to Chiwategre was inaugurated by C&RD Minister Brenning A Sangma, while the local MLA and Parliamentary Secretary i/c Agriculture & Irrigation Mr Sengman R Marak inaugurated the ropeway at Timbogre.

These ropeways, with an official capacity of 50 kg per trolley, were constructed in February this year with a total...