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SILIGURI, April 19 — The Bhutan government is taking steps to curb activities of Indian militant organisations in the country, Bhutanese ambassador to India Lynpo Dago Tshering said here today. Tshering said that there were 20 camps of anti-India militants running in Bhutan, including nine operated by the ULFA. Of the nine, four were already destroyed by the Bhutan government, he said adding a number of new check posts were also set up at a great expenditure. Securitymen have blocked the entry points inside Dooars jungles usually used by militants to enter the Himalayan country, he said...

GUWAHATI, April 19 — The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has identified various irregularities in the Flood Control Department and recommended that the ongoing scheme should be completed on priority basis before taking up new schemes. The CAG, in its report pointed out that out of 25 schemes recommended by the Planning Commission between 1998-99 to 2001-02, to be funded under the non-lapsable central pool of resources, only four could be completed due to the delay in release of fund to the executing department. The report revealed in 1998, the committee for funding of schemes...

Ukhrul, April 18: At the age of 77, he is only 11 years older to his brother. But in reality, he is a father figure to his sibling, Thuingaleng Muivah.

The modest home of Sangreihan Muivah, unassuming elder brother of the NSCN (I-M) general secretary, is just like any other Naga household.

Sangreihan is reluctant to hazard a guess about what would happen as the Naga peace talks move forward. He does, however, give an idea on how things have shaped for his family since the early days of the Naga rebellion and Th. Muivah’s own association with the movement since the Sixties.

After the...

JORHAT, April 18 – Taking a cue from the mutually beneficial experience of several State governments following constitution of eco-development committees in villages located at fringe areas of national parks and sanctuaries, the authorities at the Kaziranga National Park too have followed suit and submitted a proposal to the Government for setting up a ‘forest development agency,’ which could pave the way for better coordination with villagers living around the periphery of the 860-sq km park.

With a number of eco-development committees already having taken shape in fringe villages under the...

IMPHAL, April 18 –The Citizens Concern for Dams and Development(CCDD), a common platform of various bodies belonging to different communities, has strongly reacted to Chief Minister O Ibobi’s statement on the proposed construction of controversial Tipaimukh dam. The convenor of the common body and an eminent Naga women activist Aram Pamei while talking to reporters at the white palace hotel here said that the recent statement of the Chief Minister is “totally against interest of the people”.

Quoting reports Pamei said, ‘‘He should not make such a statement if he really felt the sentiment...