New Delhi, Jan. 15: The North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (Neepco) has turned around with a profit of Rs 123 crore in the first three quarters of the current fiscal as against a loss of Rs 408 crore last year. Neepco, with an installed capacity of 1,130 MW, is expected to end the year with a net profit of Rs 160 crore, company chairman and managing director S.C. Sharma told reporters here today.

Sharma also threw light on plans to improve its credit rating over the next three years.

The company?s previous highest profit was Rs 120 crore in 2000-01. The power generating company, that...

Silchar, Jan. 14: The militant Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) has indicated it is no longer averse to accepting the Mizoram government?s condition that all members of the outfit must lay down weapons before a peace accord is signed. If the BNLF says yes, it will be the second such concession by the Bru group in the past two years.

The militants first gave up the demand for an autonomous district council to administer the Bru-dominated areas of northwest Mizoram. They instead settled for a development council based on the model of limited autonomy, which was granted to the Hmar tribe in...

Kohima, Jan. 14: Pro-insurgent Briton David Patrick Ward, arrested in Nagaland six months ago on charges of assault and arson, will have a high-profile visitor to his prison cell next week in the form of his country?s deputy high commissioner to India, Andrew Hall.

The British high commission had written to the Nagaland government asking for Ward?s deportation to the UK, but the seriousness of the charges against him stalled the process.

Variously described as a ?Robinhood-type character?, a ?tricky person? and a ?fanatical supporter of Naga insurgency?, Ward was booked under the National...

Khonsa (Tirap), Jan. 13: Communicable diseases have claimed the lives of more than 200 people in Arunachal Pradesh?s Tirap district, which is also one of most disturbed places of the state. The diseases, which broke out in August last year, are yet to be completely eradicated.

Quoting reports submitted by the district medical officer, deputy commissioner J.P. Choudhury said more than 100 people have died in the Lazu circle alone while another 35 have perished in Longding.

?There was a kind of epidemic in Tirap. By and large, it is on the wane, though the diseases are still raging in parts of...

Guwahati, Jan. 13: Come April, the beats of a 500-year-old Assamese folk song could be climbing its way up to the top of the national music charts. Sakhi ao mere sang tujhe le chalu Asam (come, friend, let me take you to Assam) is a Hindi number that is being attuned to the beats of a naukhel geet (boat race song) typical of Assam?s Barpeta district at the Jyoti Chitraban studio here.

The song will make its debut on all the popular music channels, including MTV, Channel [V] and B4U, in early April. ?Sakhi ao mere will be a peppy number, with charged beats, though it will have the typical touch...