Assam to formulate ‘web policy’

GUWAHATI, Jan 12— The State Government has decided to formulate a ‘web policy’ in view of the increasing relevance of information technology in governance and development sector. Senior Cabinet Minister in charge of PWD, Sri Sarat Borkataky while inaugurating a computer education centre at Fatasil Ambari areas in the city today, announced that the State Government was focusing on exploiting information technology advantages in governance as well for economic activities in the State despite the constraints at this moment. He announced that a ‘web policy’ was soon going to be announced while the...

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India, Bhutan to check militant activities

GUWAHATI, Jan 12 — India and Bhutan have decided to strengthen bilateral ties and check activities of militants through regular border district level coordination meetings. According to a report in Bhutan’s state run newspaper Kuensel, the last round of the border district coordination meeting was held at Jalpaiguri between January 7 to 9. The Joint Secretary of the Bhutanese Home Ministry, Dasho Tshering Wangda led the Bhutanese delegation, while, the Indian delegation was led by the Commissioner of Jalpaiguri division, AK Jain.

Apart from other bilateral issues, the border district level...

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Assam to get Rs 630.10 cr for rural development

GUWAHATI, Jan 12— The State Government would receive a total fund and foodgrains of Rs 630.10 crore under the new centrally sponsored scheme, the ‘Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY), an official release stated. This was disclosed by a senior official of Union Ministry of Rural Development who too part in a discussion held with the Project Director, DRDA of the State regarding implementation of Rural Development schemes in the state through Panchayati Raj Institutions organised at SIRD today.

According to sources, the break of the total allocation would be Rs 134.91 crore under the EAS and...

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Poumai Thounii ends amidst cheer

IMPHAL, Jan 11— The four-day-long Poumai Thounii the biggest harvest festival of the Poumai tribes concluded at Liyai villager, bordering Nagaland on January 7 amidst cheering among the villagers. The festival which was formally inaugurated by the Lok Sabha MP Holkhomang Haokip on January 5 was attended by over 15,000 Poumai delegates both from Manipur and Nagaland. On the second day of the Thounii festival, the Speaker of Nagaland Assembly Z Lohe was the chief guest while the rural development minister of Nagaland and deputy commissioner of Senapati district T Panmei attended the gathering as...

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Khagen Das Left candidate for West Tripura

AGARTALA, Jan 11— Rajya Sabha member Khagen Das (CPI-M) will contest as the Left Front candidate in the by-elections for the West Tripura parliamentary constituency to be held on February 2, reports PTI. Baidyanath Majumder, chairman of the Left Front in Tripura and former Deputy Chief Minister, told a press conference here on Wednesday that the decision to field Das was taken unanimously in the Left Front meeting. The seat fell vacant due to death of veteran CPI-M leader Samar Chaudhuri. The Left Front chairman said the ensuing by-election has assumed significances as the Assembly elections...

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The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments. This site has over 6,000 news items that are of value to academics, researchers and journalists.

Subir Ghosh