KOKRAJHAR, Feb 11 ? With the arrival of the Bodo leadership at Kokrajhar College field at 3.40 pm by a helicopter from Guwahati, thousands of people greeted the delegates, with the highest degree of enthusiasm for successful signing of the BTC Accord in New Delhi on February 10 last. Addressing the gathering Sri Hagrama Basumatary, the chairman of BLT and signatory of the BTC Accord exclaimed with joy that the signing of the accord would have the path for the Bodos of BTC to have a stable and strong future. Sri Rabiram Narzary president, ABSU assured the gathering that signing of the accord...

GUWAHATI, Feb 11 ?A meeting of about 2000 volunteers of Sanmilita Janagosthiya Sangram Samity (SJSS) held at Rangiya today denounced the creation of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and warned that creation of the council would pave way for spread of fratricidal clashes from Bodo areas to other areas in the State. Informing this, the SJSS convenor Brojen Mahanta renewed the threat to intensify agitation against the BTC creation stating that the BTC would be a step forwardtowards further disintegration of the State. Sri Mahanta said by granting BTC for Bodos in connivance with the BLT the...

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...

GUWAHATI, Feb 11 ? Sanjana Das of Guwahati won the coveted Miss North-east 2003 title while Mandakini, Miss Manipur from Imphal, and Rimlim Barua of Tezpur were adjudged the first and second runners-up at the beauty pageant held at Hotel Ambarish, Ganeshguri, here on February 8 last.

Participants from various places of the north-eastern region took part in the event, the preliminary round of which was held at Umananda in the middle of the Brahmaputra river on February 6. The Miss Photogenic title and Miss Personality titles were won by Sanjana and Rimlim, the eventual winner and second runner...

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...