GUWAHATI, April 23 ? Rongali Bihu this time witnessed tremendous web interface by the global Assamese community. Enthusiastic Assamese abroad ? Non-Resident Assamese (NRAs) ? as well as in India were requesting living legend Dr Bhupen Hazarika for their favourite numbers and exchanging views through on-line interaction and live webcast on the internet. The programme, displayed on three giant screens at the Pub Guwahati Bihutoli, Chandmari by SM Computer Consultants Pvt Ltd, Guwahati through its popular website www.vedanti.com witnessed unprecedented response from almost one corner of the world...

GUWAHATI, April 23 ? A group of agitated beneficiaries under a Centrally-sponsored vehicle loan scheme today laid siege to the office of the WPT and BC Minister, Bharat Chandra Narah in Janata Bhawan complex here after the Assam Plains Tribe Development Corporation (APTDC) had postponed the ?loan mela? scheduled for today at the eleventh hour. The WPT and BC Minister, Sri Narah informed that about 18 Tata Sumos, 32 autorickshaws and three mini-trucks were to be distributed among the beneficiaries who had paid their share in December last year, at a loan mela scheduled for today. All the...

GUWAHATI, April 23 ? The State does not have its State Central Library since the shifting of the State capital to Guwahati in the early 1970s, the condition of the district libraries in the State is not praiseworthy either. Even, among the NE States the State?s library service is poorly placed. These were the findings of a country-wide survey of the condition of State Central and District Libraries conducted by the Raja Rammohan Library Foundation (RRLF) of the Union Ministry of Culture last year. But, the State Government has no excuse left to it for saving its skin. It can not cite dearth of...

Imphal, April 23: Three of a family were killed and another member of the same family, a one and half year old kid injured in a crossfire between BS and militants near Zou Veng, a Kuki village around half a kilometer south of Sugunu police station last night. Reports said eh BSF ambushed the militants and the subsequent encounter began from 11.30 pm and lasted till 1.45 in the morning. A BSF statement said a group of PLA cadres numbering around 60 were fired upon by 2nd Bn BSF personnel in between Sugunu and Sangaikot at around 12.30 pm last night. During the encounter, one PLA cadre...

Imphal, April 23: The underground NSCN (IM) has lambasted the RSS sarshangalachak, KS Sudarshan, for the jingoistic statements he had made during his visit to Imphal recently, charging that Sudarshan has come to Manipur with the intent of sowing seeds of hatred and bloodshed. The proscribed outfit, in a statement axed here, rejected outright Sudarshan?s reported statement that the demand fro Greater Nagaland is a concept promoted by foreign Christian missionaries. It maintained that the Naga struggle is neither a demand for Greater Nagalim nor the concept of Christian missionaries. It...