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GUWAHATI, April 9 – A 48-hour curfew has been clamped in the entire North-Cachar Hills district from 1 pm today in view of the deteriorating law and order situation in the district. Earlier curfew was clamped in the district from 6 pm yesterday to 5 am today. But the administration again clamped curfew following arson in Retzol area today. The release said that all out efforts are being made by the district administration to bring the situation under control and all educational institutions in the district have been closed down, official sources said.

BADARPUR, April 9 – “The BG construction work of Silchar-Badarpur-Lumding hill section of the Northeast Frontier Railway will be completed within the year 2007, positively. Although this hill section is beset with insurgency problems, the BG construction work of the Lumding-Badarpur hill section is going on in full swing at present. There is no problem of money for this work. This year in the Budget, Rs 75 crore has been sanctioned for the BG implementation,” stated NF Railway general manager (GM) Vipen Nanda here while he was talking with the newspersons at Badarpur Railway Station after...

IMPHAL, April 9: Kidnapped German Heinrich Wolfgang was today released by his captors through representatives of some NGOs in Itham Moirangpurel area in Imphal East district of Manipur, official sources said, reports PTI. The sources said Wolfgang, kidnapped from Maphou area in Thoubal district on March 23 by activists of the underground Kuki Liberation Army (KLA), was now being kept in a hotel here with security guards. The KLA had earlier demanded Rs one crore for the release of the foreigner but it was not immediately known whether any amount was paid to the ultras to secure the safe...

NEW DELHI, April 9 — The high-pitch rhetoric that Centre has neglected Assam has not moved the Union Government as it has drawn the conclusion that the State has not been able to make rapid progress in implementation.

The reason for Centre’s analysis is the State has been given adequate funds but it has not been able to utilize it. For instance, Minister of State of State for Statistics and programme Implementation, S B Mookherjee pointed out that Assam could spend only Rs 7,091.03 crore out of then allocation of Rs 8,140.28 crore during five annual plans of the Ninth Five Year Plan period.

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NEW DELHI, April 9 — The hue and cry over presence of a huge migrant population in the border areas, notwithstanding, the Union Government so far has not made any effort to identify the illegal migrants, even as Ministry of Home Affairs confirmed that Assam Government has submitted an eight-point formula for checking influx of foreigners from across the border.

Contrary to its claims about presence of 10 million illegal migrants in the country, the Central Government has no official data to prove its point. “The question on nationality was not canvassed at the Census 2001 and therefore, it is...