SILCHAR, May 12 ? The Dimasa outfit Dima Halam Danga (DHD) has intensified its activities for the creation of a separate Dimaraji State with the inclusion of the parts of Cachar, North Cachar Hills, Karbi Anglong and Nagaon districts. This has created fear psychosis among the people living in the areas. A vernacular daily of Silchar has reported quoting intelligence sources that the DHD has chalked out a blue-print for this. It is learnt that the Bodo outfit NDFB has extended its support towards the DHD for creating a strong movement like the Bodoland one. NDFB has reportedly opened some...

GUWAHATI, May 12 ? North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Limited (NEDFi) has succeeded in complying with the Prime Minister?s directive on disbursing at least Rs 50 crore per year during the last two fiscal years. The Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of the NEDFi, Sri JP Saikia yesterday informed that the Prime Minister during his visit to North-East in January, 2000 had announced that the Corporation would disburse at least Rs 50 crore a year. Though it meant 240 per cent increase in its operation yet NEDFi achieved the target by releasing Rs 50.46 crore during 2000-01 and Rs 50...

GUWAHATI, May 12 ? The state government should immediately start evicting the encroachers from the Kaziranga National Park, demanded the secretary of the Asom Gana Parishad legislature party, Sri Silip Kumar Saikia. The AGP leader today pointed out that even persons of doubtful nationality have encroached into the territory of the National Park and according to reports, sometimes poachers took shelter among the encroachers. He pointed out that by the strength of the supreme court order, the government can easily launch an eviction drive in the National Park. He also demanded that the state...

GUWAHATI, May 12 ? The Hindu Yuba Chattra Parishad, Asom, has termed the ongoing eviction drive at Batahghuli as a conspiracy aimed at safeguarding a particular section of encroachers while harnessing the indigenous people of the State. In a press release, the parishad alleged that while the authorities concerned had been turning a blind eye to the rampant encroachment by suspected foreigners at Kaziranga, Kurihamari, Kochmara, etc., it showed an unusual enthusiasm in committing atrocities on the local indigenous people under the pretext of eviction at Batahghuli. It is a move to protect the...

GUWAHATI, May 12? At a time when the Centre is trying to boost export between North-East India and Myanmar in a bid to garner revenue, the export growth rate has fallen drastically in the region. The exporters of the North-east are worried over the prevailing situation as no big company is willing to invest in the region. According to official statistics, the export growth rate between North-east India and Myanmar across the Moreh border, which was recorded at 4.2 per cent during the past couple of years, now has gone down to 2.1 per cent only. The poor growth rate is attributed to lack of...