GUWAHATI, Jan 2 — Despite expiry of the deadline on Monday night set by Bhutan Government for militant outfits ULFA and NDFB to close their camps on its soil, the banned outfits defied the diktat and only relocated a few camps, reports PTI. Official sources here said the extremists did not vacate any of their camps set up on the Bhutan hills along Assam, but had only relocated four United Liberation Front of Asom camps within that country’s territory. The sources attributed the failure of the insurgents to dismantle their camps in deference to King Jigme Singme Wanchuk’s orders to the mountain...

NEW DELHI, Jan 2 – At a time when the Assam Government has identified tourism as a key sector for economic development of the State – describing it as the engine for growth – chronic problems continue to paralyse the functioning of Assam Tourism Information Centre (ATIC) here. If you are a tourist planning to visit Assam, then it would be far more convenient for you, as foreign tourist often discovers to make your own arrangements, rather then depending on the State Government’s Tourist Information Centre. You will have problems contacting it, its telephone has been lying out of order since...

GUWAHATI, Jan 2 – Noted educationist and writer Smt Nilima Dutta wife of late Bhabananda Dutta breathed her last at her residence in the Kharghuli area of the city due to heart attack at around 11.45 am today. She was 76. Born at Silghat in Nagaon district in 1925, Smt Dutta was a brilliant student from her early years and received scholarship in both primary and ME examinations. She passed the matriculation examination from Panbazar Girls High School in first division with distinction in Geography and Sanskrit in 1941. She passed the IA examination from Handique Girls College in first...

GUWAHATI, Jan 2 – In view of ‘depressed price trend for the past three years’, the Consultative Committee of Plantation Association (CCPA) has drawn up an action plan to improve the current grim scenario by removing prevailing imbalances within the tea industry itself and bring about stability of prices of tea both in the domestic market and on the export front. The CCPA has underlined the need for increase in the production of orthodox tea to address to the problem of unfavourbale ‘orthodox:CTC’ mix which is constraining the country’s tea export. For the purpose, the CCPA has set a production...

Imphal, January 02: PLA 101 Bn commandant Dilip Leishemba has stated that people of the State do not want to live under the ?Indian colonial rule? as a survey conducted by the party shows that 80 percent of the people wants separation from India. Talking to reporters during the burning of two kgs of heroin powder, the biggest seizure of the Bn this year before villagers somewhere on the Indo-Myanmar border yesterday, he said that the RPF/PLA has been expanding ?liberated zones? day by day. Stating that the freedom struggle will certainly succeed one day, he said that nobody could stop them...