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KOHIMA, March 4 — Former Nagaland Chief Minister Hokishe Sema was on Monday unanimously elected leader of the BJP legislature party, which made its maiden entry in state politics by clinching seven seats in the just-concluded election, party sources said.

At a meeting held at Dimapur, BJP legislators unanimously elected Sema as legislature party leader, in presence of BJP vice-president Pyarelal Khandelwal and party in-charge of north-east V Satish and state BJP leaders.

The party legislators would proceed to Kohima to attend the combined meeting of constituents of Democratic Alliance of...

NEW DELHI, March 4 — Notwithstanding the clamour, the Union Finance Ministry has in the last two financial years not written off any loans, including that of Assam. The only two lucky States which had some amounts written off included only two north-eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur. A sum of Rs 1.72 crore was written off in the case of Arunachal Pradesh while Rs 2.52 crore was written off in the case of Manipur. For the current financial year no loan has been written off in respect of any State, Union Finance Minister Jaswant Singh said in Rajya Sabha in a written reply. Assam...

KOHIMA, March 3 — The Nagaland People, Front (NPF) hs expresed its gratitude to the people of Nagaland for giving their mandate to “many veteran, senior and able lenders of the Democratic Frotn of Nagaland (DAN) and its partners.” K Therie, the spokesman fo the NPF said here on Sudnay tht with the supprot of the NDA government at the Centre, they woud try to implement the common minimum programme.

“The main objective of working with the NDA Government at the Centre is to secure a final and permanent settlement to the long standing Naga political problem and people mandate was towards this...

GUWAHATI, March 3— The State Government has submitted a proposal to the Centre for creation of two India Reserve Police Battalions with surrendered militants, but the response of the Centre is awaited. This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Home Rockeybul Hussain in reply to a question by Sri Zoii Nath Sarma in the State Assembly today.

The Minister said that so far 8,798 militants including 7,618 belonging to the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and 317 belonging to the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) surrendered in the State. He said that the Central...

NEW DELHI, March 3 : The Assam Government has undertaken 51 flood control and anti-erosion schemes for river Brahmaputra during the eight years (1995-2003). The projects are in addition to two major Central sector projects taken up by Brahmaputra Board, Union Minister of State for Water Resource Bijoya Chakravarty disclosed in a written reply in Lok Sabha. The Central sector projects included the Pagladiya Dam Project estimated to cost over Rs 542 crore and the avulsion of Brahmaputra at Dholla Hatighuli, which is a measure for diversion of river to its original course with ancillary anti...