IMPHAL, March 23: Patrolling and frisking by police and security forces have been intensified in and around Christian missionary schools in the state's valley areas. This was announced by Manipur Chief Minister Radhabinod Koijam today. Security for missionary schools was beefed up following threats from militants. A militant outfit had demanded Rs 40 lakh from eight Catholic missionary schools in Imphal. When the schools expressed their inability to pay the amount, the militants slapped a fine of Rs 2 crore on them and ordered them to close down. The matter was discussed in the Assembly today...

TINSUKIA, March 23: Tinsukia Municipal Board, with the active help of the district administration, has gone a long way towards installing an ambitious project to dispose the solid waste off in a highly scientific way to generate electricity. A Kolkata-based company - Sarbanand Impex - has already been invited for the project and it has completed the preliminary works for installation of the same. Explaining the method of generating electricity from municipal garbage, Uday Narayan Sarmah, project director of the Company, in a press meet on March 16 at Tinsukia, said that the Rs 85 crore project...

DIGBOI, March 23: The centurion Digboi refinery, which is Asia's oldest working petroleum refinery, and which forms the Assam Oil Division of Indian Oil Corporation Limited, plans to go in to the lucrative exploration and production of crude in its second century of existence. The refinery, which went on stream in 1901, has been chiefly what its name suggests: its refines crude and since 1902, has been marketing its end products. The logic being that "crude sells easily while products needs marketing." The Digboi refinery, as most would know, was part of the Burmah Oil Company till 1981when it...

KOHIMA, March 23: Nagaland Chief Minister SC Jamir today presented a Rs 203-crore deficit budget for the next fiscal with a commitment to carry on with the ongoing financial reform programme, reports PTI. Except for enhancing sales tax on petroleum products, the budget did not propose any fresh tax proposals. Jamir, who also holds the Finance portfolio, pegged the revised budget deficit for the current year at Rs 226.67 crore against the anticipated deficit of Rs 230.84 crore. The budget deficit for the next fiscal was projected at Rs 203.42 crore. The Chief Minister, however, expressed his...

GUWAHATI, March 23: The Special Court here remanded today two persons accused and arrested by the CBI in connection with a multi-crore palmolein oil scam, to two days' police custody for interrogation and directed the CBI to produce them before the court on Monday next. Producing the two arrested accused Ajay Kumar Nawka, son of Late Satya Narayan Nawka of Saniram Bora Road, Ulubari in the city, and Dilip Medhi son of Late Ananda Medhi of MB Road, Fatasil in the city, Public Prosecutor for the CBI MV Ramanaiah pleaded before the Special Court for their remand to police custody for a period of...