NEW DELHI, April 29 ? As many as 75 of the total 86 operational airports in the country were consistently making losses with Guwahati topping the list incurring losses of over Rs 25 crore in 2000-01, the Lok Sabha was informed today, reports PTI. Civil Aviation Minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said in a written reply that Trivandrum (Rs.9.96 crore), Nagpur (Rs. 9.85 crore) and Lucknow (Rs. 9.21 crore) are the among major loss-making airports.

GUWAHATI, April 29 ? A stake-holders meeting on Majuli Island World Heritage Site proposal held at the Circuit House here today decided to accept the State Department of Culture as the nodal agency and HS Das, Finance Commissioner of the State, as the nodal officer for the purpose of preparing the nomination dossier of the island which to reach the UNESCO headquarters at Paris latest by May 2004. The meeting held under the auspices of the UNESCO Association, Guwahati and conducted by its secretary general Dr Aswini Sarma, also decided to include the State departments like the Flood Control...

GUWAHATI, April 28? There is some good news for the persons planning to buy second hand cars as the Assam Police, in collaboration with the National Crime Records Bureau, is opening an auto theft information centre in the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on May 6. Police sources revealed that detailed reports of auto theft and recoveries would be available in the information centre and anyone planning to buy a second hand car can get information from the centre on the payment of a nominal fees.

Police sources pointed out that very often the genuine purchasers are...

GUWAHATI, April 28 ? Police today registered a case against a group of trouble-makers allegedly led by ruling party MLA of Sootea constituency Praneswar Basumatary after they had set fire to an anti-poaching camp at Ranggajan Chapori inside Nameri National Park in Sonitpur district this morning. A case against the group, including the MLA, has been registered in Rangapara police station under Section 147/148/149/353/447/436 & 506 of IPC on the basis of FIR lodged by forest department staff in Nameri Park.

Meanwhile, in a press release, Aaranyak, a frontline bio-diversity conservation society...

AGARTALA, April 27? What makes the National Liberation Front of Tripura, the banned outfit, different from other militant organisations? Well, dubious it may sound, but fact is that it is the NLFT militant?s shameless, selective and sustained attack on women that turned the tribal outfit into a brute force. And most of the women raped, killed and kidnapped by the tribal insurgents of Tripura belong to their own community only. In a renewed violence from January 1 to till date, 38 persons were killed by the militants and most of them are directly or indirectly ruling party supporters. But what...