GUWAHATI, Feb 12 ? The China Government?s action of developing infrastructure all along the international border may pose grave security threat to India and the Arunachal Pradesh Government has already informed the Centre about the development. This was disclosed by Arunachal Pradesh Education Minister Takam Sanjoy, who is also the State Government spokesman.

Talking to The Assam Tribune here on his way to Itanagar from New Delhi, Sri Sanjoy said that the border with China should be taken very seriously by the Government of India as ?we do not want a repeat of 1962?. He said that the China...

GUWAHATI, Feb 12 ?The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad has called upon the Bodo leadership of the State to ensure that the non-Bodos living in the BTC area do not lag behind the Bodos in terms of rights and development.

In a press release, AJYCP president Apurba Kumar Bhattacharya and general secretary Dilip Shankar Saikia said it was the duty of the Bodo leadership to allay the fears of the non-Bodos living in the BTC area arising out of the signing of the Bodo Accord on February 10.

The two leaders said that while the aboriginal Bodos of the State had every right to enjoy autonomy...

SHILLONG, Feb 12 ? A total of 317 candidates were left in the fray after withdrawal of nominations on the last date of withdrawal Monday for the February 26 Meghalaya Assembly election, official sources said today, reports PTI.

Chief Minister Dr Flinder Anderson Khonglam is locked in a five-corner contest from Sohra on HSPDP ticket while Deputy Chief Minister D D Lapang (Congress) is fighting a four- corner contest from his earlier constituency Nongpoh.

Former Chief Minister Salseng Marak (Congress) is facing a straight fight with NCP candidate Timothy Shira from Resubelpara. Another former...

Imphal, Febuary 11: There is great imbalance in the export and import ratio of the trade being carrying out between India and Myanmar under the Indo-Myanmar Border Trade Agreement, an official of the State Commerce and Industries Department disclosed. The border trade between the two neighboring countries was established under an agreement signed some five years ago. Altogether 22 items can be imported from Myanmar but the items that can be exported are many and because of this imbalance the ongoing trade is not successful, the official said. The State Government had already submitted a...

DIMAPUR, Feb 11 ? Delays and frequent cancellation of flights to and from Dimapur, the commercial hub of Nagaland, would be a thing of the past with the arrival of the Instrument Landing System (ILS) to be installed at the Dimapur Airport over the next couple of months. The Park Air Systems manufactured equipment arrived here in three truckloads recently. The ILS comprising of two parts the localizer and the glide part including DME (distance measuring equipment) would be set up at the northern and southern ends of the runway to facilitate the safe landing of aircraft during inclement weather...