GUWAHATI, April 13?The North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NEDFi) has chalked out a detailed plan to boost the economy of Meghalaya, and to reach out to the people in the State, the Corporation has set up a branch office at Shillong which started functioning from October 15, 2001, stated a release. Mentionably, NEDFi was set up in 1995 for the development of industries and infrastructure in the North East region. NEDFi has sanctioned Rs 5458 lakhs as assistance to 21 projects in Meghalaya covering industrial/agricultural activities such as food processing, poultry, health care...

AGARTALA, April 12 ? The perennial Congress squabble took an ugly turn yesterday when some unruly workers heckled PCC president Birajit Sinha at Agartala airport. Sinha had gone to receive the two AICC observers R K Tomba and S Raj Kumar when the Congress activists allegedly belonging to his detractors? faction, heckled him. They were demanding his immediate removal from the post of the PCC president. The Congress chiefs vehicle also bore the brunt as the workers resorted to stone pelting. Tomba and Rajkumar have come to Tripura to supervise the organisational activities in all the districts...

GUWAHATI, April 12 ? In the most recent raid conducted by Forest Department and Nagaon district administration on April 5 and 6, besides a Bangladeshi passport, a huge volume of illegal timbers and instruments used in wildlife and forest crimes were recovered from Pub-Putalijhar village located in Gorajan area of Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctury which has been under constant onslaught of criminals enjoying patronage of politicians.

Sources informed that the recovered Bangladeshi passport bearing No. U 0343210 belonged to one Abdus Sattar. It was issued by Md Abdul Malek, Deputy Assistant Director...

Imphal, April 12: The State Police Department has today ordered a Departmental Inquiry against the five policemen who have been suspended on charges of planting drugs in a city shop and trying to extract money from the shop owner on false charges yesterday. A high ranking police official said SP Imphal East M Karnajit, IPS has been appointed as the Inquiry Officer of the Departmental probe. Proper action will be initiated against the police personnel involved as per the findings of the probe, he said and added exemplary penalty will be given to the guilty. In the meantime, DGP AA Siddiqui has...

Kohima, April 12: The Nagaland government said it would not invoke the recently passed the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), 2002 into Nagaland. "It is up to us whether to use it (POTA) and also we have sufficient laws like Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 to deal with any unlawful activities including insurgency in the state", Nagaland Planning Minister S Imtisungeet Jamir told this writer on Saturday. "Moreover it is not appropriate to use the Act (POTA) in Nagaland as the two factions of the NSCN are currently having ceasefire with the Government of India". The Government of India...