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Dibrugarh, May 25: Biomedical researchers in the Northeast have for long been forced to rely on animals brought in from outside for conducting their experiments. But this is all set to end, with the Lahowal-based Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) setting up a ?reproduction centre? for experimental animals.

Established in 1982, the centre ? located in the Upper Assam district of Dibrugarh ? is the lone biomedical research laboratory in the entire region under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Lahowal is 13 km from Dibrugarh.

The director of the research centre, Jagadish...

Guwahati, May 25: The NSCN (I-M) today threatened to go in for a referendum on its demand for the integration of Naga-inhabited areas of the Northeast if the Centre continued to be indecisive on the issue.

The organisation announced its stand after the talks between its leadership and the Centre?s chief interlocutor, K. Padmanabhaiah, again ended in a deadlock. The meeting was held in Bangkok.

NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chisi Swu and general secretary Th. Muivah were unavailable for comment, but a source in the Thai capital confirmed that the duo held firm on the issue of integrating Naga...

SHILLONG, May 25 ? National Hydro-electric Power Corporation Ltd (NHPC) has got outstanding dues of nearly Rs 100 crore upto April this year against seven north eastern states ? beneficiaries of the Loktak Hydel Project - with Manipur topping the list, according to the North Eastern Regional Electricity Board (NEREB), reports PTI.

The outstanding dues included the principal amount surcharge on it, development surcharge, according to a NEREB statement released at its 52nd board meeting here last week. While Manipur topped the list with an accumulated outstanding amount of Rs 43.82 crore, it...

ITANAGAR, May 25 ? Senior Congress leader Lijum Ronya, who was recently dropped by Chief Minister Mukut Mithi from his cabinet, said the Congress stood no chance of returning to power in the net Assembly elections if Mithi remained at the helm, reports PTI. Mithi dropped Ronya, who was in charge of the ministry of forest and horticulture, from his cabinet on May 21 without citing any reason.

?My ouster from the ministry was not justified ... let the people judge my achievement in various departments like education, power, environment and forest and horticulture,? Ronya told reporters here on...

GUWAHATI, May 25 ? The Assam forest department today claimed to have busted a gang of poachers with the arrest of three persons, who had killed two rhinos and decamped with its invaluable horn from Pabitora wildlife sanctuary near here on Friday last. Within 36-hrs of the electrocution of the two rhinos, the gang was nabbed jointly by the forest department authroties and the police, forest minister Pradyut Bordoloi told PTI here.