GUWAHATI, Dec 14: Existing tribal land holding practices in the Northeast may be depriving the people from availing bank loans to bring about agricultural development in the primarily agrarian economies of the States here. Suitable modifications need to be made in the rules to enable the tribals to bring about a transformation in their lives.

A team from the Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes Commission (SA&STC), led by its chairman Dileep Singh Bhuria, which is currently visiting Assam and Nagaland, has observed that the individual cultivators should easily get the soft loan assistance...

ITANAGAR, Dec 14: Union Minister for Forest and Environment TR Balu assured Arunachal Power Minister Lijum Ronya that stringent laws might be relaxed to facilitate the Lower Subansiri hydro electric project. Ronya, said in a press release here on Saturday that during his meeting with Balu in New Delhi on Wednesday, the Union Minister assured him that he would see that the condition put forth by the National Wildlife Board that the catchment area of Lower Subansiri should be declared as a National Park to net forest clearance for the 2000mw first phase of the hydro-electric project was relaxed...

Imphal, December 13: Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) has categorically asked the NSCN (IM) to rein in KRA cadres who are in its camp and stop further occurrence of clash between KRA and UPDS militants in Karbi Anglong district of Assam. In an open letter to NSCN (I-M) chairman Isaac Swu, information and publicity secretary of KIM Ng Haokip Lhangsam said 'the cadres of KRA are our children but we have no control over them since they are at NSCN (IM) camp'. NSCN (IM) should stop the KRA cadres before it is too late. Otherwise, it should bear the responsibly for occurrence of further clash between the...

Guwahati, Dec. 13: The North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NEDFi) has signed a memorandum of understanding with financial service provider Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Service Limited (IL&FS) for joint initiatives in project development, project financing and corporate financing in different sectors in the Northeast.

The MoU was signed last night in the city in presence of Assam governor Lt Gen. (retd) Ajai Singh. Chairman and managing director of NEDFi J.P. Saikia along with Ravi Parthasarthy, vice-chairman and managing director of IL&FS, executive director Hari...

GUWAHATI, Dec 12 ? North East Chamber of Commerce and Industry in association with Prabasi Asomiya Sanmilan is organising an interaction summit with the NRI?s from Assam at Administrative Staff College, Khanapara, here from January 17 to 18, stated a release.

The main objective of the summit is to provide a platform for an interaface between the residents of the State and the non-residents who either stay in any other part of the country or in foreign land.

Meanwhile, the non-resident has a very important role to play. His intervention may be either in the form of investible funds...