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GUWAHATI, May 21 ? There was a time during the Assam movement when people of Assam left that the All Assam Students? Union (AASU) could do no wrong, but now its image is under a scanner and the organisation is facing allegations like the same set of leaders holding on to their posts for years, failure to deal properly with the problems of the students etc. It is a fact that not many new faces are coming up to take the leadership of the AASU, the biggest students? organisation of the State and the organisation also failed to hold its annual conferences regularly to elect new executive bodies...

SHILLONG, May 21 ? Meghalaya government today rejected NCP general secretary PA Sangma?s claim of being a facilitator of talks between the Centre and insurgents, saying that the Centre did not authorise anyone to facilitate talks, between some insurgent groups of the state and New Delhi, reports PTI.

?We have received a letter from Union Home Secretary N Gopalswamy saying the government of India has authorised nobody to negotiate with militants of Meghalaya,? state?s home minister R G Lyngdoh told a press conference here.

Sangma, a Lok Sabha member from Meghalaya?s Garo Hills region and...

GUWAHATI, May 21 ? Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) has netted a profit of Rs 174.63 crore during the year 2002-03 registering an increase of 42 per cent compared to last year?s profit. The Board of Directors of the NRL has recommended payment of 30 per cent of the net profit as dividend for the year 2002-03 to shareholders of the company including Assam Government, BPCL, OIL and Oil Industries Development Board (OIDB). The sale of the company during the year 2002-03 rose by 24 per cent to Rs 2805 crore from the previous year?s sale of Rs 2261 crore, lower crude throughput due to lower N-E...

Guwahati, May 20: Ulfa ideologue and the outfit?s vice-chairman, Pradip Gogoi, today said a military operation by Bhutan to dismantle militant camps there would be the ?wrong move?.

Reacting to a report in The Telegraph today about Thimphu?s plans to dismantle all camps of the Ulfa and the NDFB by November, the jailed militant leader told newspersons outside a Tada court here that Bhutan could not expect to resolve the issue through aggression.

The Ulfa alone has nine camps in Bhutan.

Gogoi, who has been languishing in jail in Guwahati since his arrest in Calcutta in 1997, said Bhutan should...

Guwahati, May 20: Ulfa vice-chairman Pradip Gogoi, in jail since 1997, today lambasted the All-Assam Students? Union (AASU) for ?diluting? the issue of infiltration by foreigners and making ?too much noise? over the proposed repeal of the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act.

In a no-holds-barred attack on the student organisation, the Ulfa leader said, ?Those who signed the Assam Accord in 1985 should be pulled up. Why didn?t they insist that the Act, promulgated in 1983, should be repealed or amended before signing the accord??

He said the infiltration issue must be seen from...