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GUWAHATI, Dec 12 ? North East Chamber of Commerce and Industry in association with Prabasi Asomiya Sanmilan is organising an interaction summit with the NRI?s from Assam at Administrative Staff College, Khanapara, here from January 17 to 18, stated a release.

The main objective of the summit is to provide a platform for an interaface between the residents of the State and the non-residents who either stay in any other part of the country or in foreign land.

Meanwhile, the non-resident has a very important role to play. His intervention may be either in the form of investible funds...

GUWAHATI, Dec 13 ? With an objective to pave way for private investment in infrastructure sector in this region the North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Limited (NEDFi) has signed an MoU with Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFS). Governor of Assam Lt Gen (retd) Ajai Singh attended the MoU signing ceremony between the NEDFi and ILFS which is expected to revolutionise development of infrastructure sectors like power, roads, telecom, water supply, sewerage, industrial estates etc in this investment-deficient region through ?private public partnership? mechanism.

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Imphal, Dec. 12: Manipur today paid glowing tributes to the martyrs of nupi lal (women?s war), with the state government calling on women?s organisations to continue the struggle. But this time it would be for restoring peace in the state and ensuring all-round development. The state function was held at the Nupi Lal Memorial Complex, with commerce and industries minister Th. Devendra Singh and arts and culture minister M. Nara Singh on the dais.

A play based on the women?s uprising against British colonial rule was staged to mark the occasion. The first nupi lal took place in 1904 against the...

Aizawl, Dec. 12: The Independent legislator from Mizoram?s Suangpuilawn constituency today retracted his offer to resign, saying he had made up his mind not to succumb to pressure. H. Lalsangzuala claimed to have signed a resignation letter on Tuesday under duress. He made the startling revelation in a communiqu? to the Speaker.

?I would like to inform you of the existence of my resignation letter, which I was compelled to sign under threat on December 9, 2003. As you are well aware that such a letter cannot be accepted, as it was not signed of my own free will, I, therefore, request you that...

Nagaon, Dec. 12: The anti-talks faction of the United People?s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) today rejected the Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA)?s peace overtures, dashing hopes of an immediate end to the Karbi-Kuki feud. ?In the name of a peace gesture, the KRA has been trying to gain some respectability and cover up the killings of innocent Karbi people under its Operation Volcano,? the anti-talks faction of the UPDS said.

The statement came a day after the pro-talks faction of the group threatened to pick up weapons again to protect the Karbis from the KRA. Branding the KRA as ?an organisation...