NEW DELHI, April 17: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has flashed alert notices to several Northeastern States including Assam Government asking them to be on the lookout for at least 26 non banking financial companies (NBFCs), which have vanished after duping gullible customers in the region. What is even more alarming is that 16 out of the 26 NBFC were located in Guwahati before vanishing into the thin air after duping customers. Next to Guwahati is Nagaon from where also a record number of such companies have vanished. The RBI has advised the names of the companies to the concerned state...

JORHAT, April 17: The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) will soon increase its regional allocation for funding socio-economic development projects in and around its areas of operation, the outgoing Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the oil giant Bikash Bora said while speaking as chief guest after formally inaugurating the Jorhat Lions Eye Hospital here recently. Presenting an account of the ONGC's contributions to various organisations on numerous fronts, Bora assured to support the Lion's benevolent movement to offer 'the best at the cheapest'. Though the Navratna company had...

GUWAHATI, April 17: The Assam Bharatiya Janata Party, (ABJP) the breakaway dissident group of the BJP, today announced the first list of 13 candidates for the forthcoming May 10 Assembly polls in the State, reports PTI. The ABJP leader Hiranya Bhattacharya, said that the party would contest 60 seats out of a total 126 and the final list will be ready in a few days. The ABJP was formed last week following resentment in the BJP regarding the alliance with the ruling AGP for the elections. Bhattacharya said that the grassroot level workers were unhappy with the AGP-BJP alliance and in keeping...

GUWAHATI, April 17: The newly-formed Regional Democratic Alliance (RDA) consisting of nine political parties today announced its first list of 89 candidates allotted to its constituent parties. Decision was take after a day-long discussion among the alliance parties at the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) office here. The RDA working president Bolin Kuli informed that the alliance would put up candidates in 105 seats out of the total 126 seats. The remaining seats to be contested will be announced on April 20. Out of the list of 89 constituencies announced today, Nationalist Congress Party...

GUWAHATI, April 17: State committees of the CPI, CPM and the Samajwadi Party (SP) today came to an understanding to put up a joint fight against both the Congress and the AGP-BJP combine in the ensuing election to the State Assembly. The three parties which are partners in the national-level People's Front, came to this conclusion of a meeting held at the Rajgarh State headquarters of the CPI here. They also arrived at a decision to 'co-ordinate' with other left, democratic and secular parties of the State like the RSP, Liberation group of the CPI (ML), the PDF and the ASDC (Progressive - led...