AGARTALA, April 1 ? Tripura Government has announced revised payscale for Junior Engineers serving in four specific departments under fixed pay basis and slapped fresh duty on sale and marketing of foreign liquor in state, Information Minister Jitendra Chowdhury announced on Sunday. Chowdhury said the decisions were taken in a meeting of the council of Ministers, held Saturday night. Elaborating the decisions, Chowdhury said the Cabinet approved regular pay scale for Junior Engineers working under fixed pay salary in four departments including Agriculture, Rural Development, Power and Public...

DIPHU, April 1 ? A central study team from the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, visited Karbi Anglong recently to study the role and function of autonomous district councils in decentralising planning and management of primary education in the district. The team covered all aspects administration and financial and through visits to 25 primary schools and took interviews with Executive Council members, district and State level officers. The team also examined the DPEP intervention. The findings of the team were that the autonomous council and the State...

GUWAHATI, April 1 ? Even as the Guwahati Development Department Minister, Sri Anjan Dutta is in the eye of a storm over the procedure of allotment of checkgates and parking places, his ministerial colleague, Pradyut Bordoloi, Minister of State for Home, today assured the State Assembly that strict measures would be taken to prevent ?extortion? at checkgates all over the State. Bringing a Call Attention Motion in the House today, AGP legislator, Dilip Kumar Saikia raised alarm over the unabated extortion in these checkgates and drew the attention of the House to newspaper reports over ?reign of...

GUWAHATI, April 1 ? The Assam Legislative Assembly today passed the Assam Right to Information Bill to provide for right of access to information to the citizens of the State. The Bill aims to provide right to information to promote openness, transparency, and accountability in administration and to make democracy more meaningful. The Bill, with the report of the Select Committee of the House, was moved in the Assembly by the Minister of State for Home, Sri Pradyut Bordoloi on behalf of the Chief Minister, Sri Tarun Gogoi and it was passed by voice vote.

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GUWAHATI, April 1 ? The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) today asserted that it would never compromise on the ?sovereignty issue?. In an article published in The Freedom, the newsletter of the organisation, the leadership said that no military adventurism can compel the organisation to dilute its resolution of sovereignty of Assam. The firm determination of new patriots is the asset of our fight against the ?occupation force?, the leadership said. The leadership also alleged that despite systematic killings under the patronage of the Government of India, the ULFA cadres are still united.