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GUWAHATI, June 11 ? A team of Zoologists, led by Dr (Smt) JK Grewal, former Head of the Department of Zoology in the city?s Handique Girls? College, has collected over 7,000 specimens referrable to more than 500 species of microlepidotream moths. Of the collected specimens, 50 are authentically identified and identification of the rest are also going on. The collection and identification of these moths are done or being done as part of a All India Co-ordinated Project on Taxonomy (AICOPTAX) Research on Microlepidoptera, initiated by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? Members of North Eastern Region Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (NERCPA) today expressed their astonishment at the report submitted by the North East Study Group to the Centre stating that Chief Ministers of the region have to pay Rs 11 lakh per legislator to buy their support to be in power. The matter was brought to the notice of the NERCPA members who were here to attend the two-day 7th annual conference of the forum. Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) legislator of Assam, Dilip Kumar Saikia raised the matter in the conference today while deliberating on the topic :...

IMPHAL, June 11 ? The Centre was considering to set up fences along Indo-Myanmar border to prevent cross-border terrorism and armed smuggling, said Union Minister of State for Home I D Swami here today before leaving for New Delhi after a two-day visit to Manipur, reports PTI. Swami, who was addressing mediapersons, also said that fencing work and lighting along Indo-Pak and Indo-Bangladesh borders were in progress to prevent cross-border terrorism and other crimes.

Swami said the Centre was prepared to hold peace talks with any insurgent outfit in the region if they did not put any pre...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? As many as six North East militant outfits based in Manipur and Tripura has recently approached the Mizoram Chief Minister, Sri Zoramthanga to act as the catalyst in facilitating talks with the Central Government. The Minister for Information and Publicity of Mizoram, F Malsawma informed The Assam Tribune that these militant outfits, all hardcore groups including the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) had shown interest in sitting for talks with the Government of India and approached Sri Zoramthanga, a former Mizo National Front rebel, to facilitate the same.

Sri...

Shillong, June 10: Police in Meghalaya are homing in on a nexus between state employees and the banned Hynniewtrep Nationalist Liberation Council. An ensuing probe could result in several heads rolling.

Over 20 government officials in Meghalaya have come under the police?s scanner for allegedly providing ?accounts-related information? of government departments to the outfit.

The Meghalaya home department is contemplating ?serious action? against some high-ranking officials of the PHE department for passing ?vital information? about the department?s activities to the rebel outfit. State home...