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GUWAHATI, April 12 — Raising concern over low rate of loan recovery from the new generation entrepreneurs in the region, the Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of the North Eastern Development Finance Corporation, has made a call to the entrepreneurs to honour their commitment to repay loan instalments in time.

Addressing a press conference here yesterday evening the NEDFi CMD, JP Saikia underlined the need for inculcating a sense of professionalism in the first generation entrepreneurs of the region while revealing the Corporation’s plan to train 200 new entrepreneurs in the current year...

SILCHAR, April 12—Union Minister of State for Home ID Swami today blamed the ISI behind the ethnic clashes in the North East and said that exemplary punishment would be meted out to the culprits even as tension continued to mount in the Lakhipur subdivision of Cachar district. Talking to mediapersons at Pailapool after touring the three refugee camps of Lakhipur, Hmar Khawlin and Ganganagar under Lakhipur subdivision, Swami assured the people that security will be provided to them. He also stated that the Centre has sanctioned rehabilitation package of Rs 10 crore to the victims of ethnic...

April 13: Strife-torn Cachar continued to be rocked by violence while tension simmered in neighbouring North Cachar Hills district though there were no fresh incidents of violence.

In the continuing ethnic clashes in Cachar, four more houses were set ablaze in Nutan Punji area as four police outposts were put up in Hmar and Dimasa-dominated areas and police patrolling intensified.

Police sources said unidentified men torched four houses belonging to Hmar and Nepali communities. The militants also opened fire before escaping to the nearby jungles. The police also recovered a body from the...

Shillong, April 12: Meghalaya police have pieced together tell-tale signs of the proscribed Ulfa’s nexus with the Taliban in Afghanistan and Korean gunrunners following the recent seizure of a large cache of sophisticated weaponry from the outfit’s hideouts at Phulbari in West Garo Hills district.

Police have seized during raids over the past three days “a mini-truckload” of sophisticated weapons, including 96 rocket-propelled grenades, 11 large rockets, eight rocket launchers, 15 anti-tank devices, 680 rounds of 12.76 MMG ammunition, two AK-56 rifles, several rounds of bullets for AK-series...

Guwahati, April 12: The North Eastern Development Financial Corporation Ltd (NEDFi) has launched a special drive to help women entrepreneurs in the Northeast during this fiscal year.

Disclosing this to newspersons last night, NEDFi chairman-cum-managing director J.P. Saikia said the premier financial institution, which assists self-employment in the region, plans to train over 200 entrepreneurs with special emphasis on the fairer sex.

“We will be holding five training programmes exclusively for women and those who successfully complete the course will be given financial assistance under our...