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ITANAGAR, Dec 14: Union Minister for Forest and Environment TR Balu assured Arunachal Power Minister Lijum Ronya that stringent laws might be relaxed to facilitate the Lower Subansiri hydro electric project. Ronya, said in a press release here on Saturday that during his meeting with Balu in New Delhi on Wednesday, the Union Minister assured him that he would see that the condition put forth by the National Wildlife Board that the catchment area of Lower Subansiri should be declared as a National Park to net forest clearance for the 2000mw first phase of the hydro-electric project was relaxed...

GUWAHATI, Dec 14: Existing tribal land holding practices in the Northeast may be depriving the people from availing bank loans to bring about agricultural development in the primarily agrarian economies of the States here. Suitable modifications need to be made in the rules to enable the tribals to bring about a transformation in their lives.

A team from the Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes Commission (SA&STC), led by its chairman Dileep Singh Bhuria, which is currently visiting Assam and Nagaland, has observed that the individual cultivators should easily get the soft loan assistance...

Guwahati, Dec. 13: The North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NEDFi) has signed a memorandum of understanding with financial service provider Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Service Limited (IL&FS) for joint initiatives in project development, project financing and corporate financing in different sectors in the Northeast.

The MoU was signed last night in the city in presence of Assam governor Lt Gen. (retd) Ajai Singh. Chairman and managing director of NEDFi J.P. Saikia along with Ravi Parthasarthy, vice-chairman and managing director of IL&FS, executive director Hari...

Imphal, December 13: Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) has categorically asked the NSCN (IM) to rein in KRA cadres who are in its camp and stop further occurrence of clash between KRA and UPDS militants in Karbi Anglong district of Assam. In an open letter to NSCN (I-M) chairman Isaac Swu, information and publicity secretary of KIM Ng Haokip Lhangsam said 'the cadres of KRA are our children but we have no control over them since they are at NSCN (IM) camp'. NSCN (IM) should stop the KRA cadres before it is too late. Otherwise, it should bear the responsibly for occurrence of further clash between the...

MARIANI, Dec 13 ? The Congress and the BJP suffered a humiliating defeat in the town committee polls at Mariani, with the Nationalist Congress Party bagging all the five seats. The huge margins of defeat lays bare the fact that the public was well aware of the failure of the Congress govt in the region. It showed that the public was keen for a change. It may be mentioned that Mariani is the Assembly seat of Cabinet Minister Rupam Kurmi and also adjacent to Tarun Gogoi?s base Titabor. Moreover, MP Bijoy Krishna Handique is also a Congressman. In such a scence, a Congress defeat in the TC polls...