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Kokrajhar, Feb. 8: Preparations are on in full swing for holding the 35th annual conference of the All-Bodo Students? Union (Absu) at Banargaon, five km west of Kokrajhar, from February 14 to 16.

Nearly 30 volunteers from the nearby 57 villages under the Banargaon unit of the Absu are rendering voluntary service to make the meet a success. Seventy per cent of the work has already been completed. A 23-member sub-committee has been floated to chalk out and implement the programme.

Talking to The Telegraph, Absu president Rabiram Narzary said the focus was on efforts to bring about unity and...

GOLAGHAT, Feb 8 ? The NRL is facing crisis for crude oil in Numaligarh Refinery Limited in the near future and the production will also be stopped, informed newsmen in a press meet held at NRL conference hall by Apurba Sharma, GM (Production). Sharma said that though the NRL has a strength of refining three million tonnes of crude oil last year, the NRL had refined only 2.3 million tonnes of crude oil instead of the capacity and only 1.8 million tonne of crude oil this year. Due to the scarcity of crude oil, the DCU unit has been stopped for more than one month. It becomes more expensive to...

Guwahati, Feb. 7: A weakened middle order, coupled with the absence of ?hit men? in the Ulfa is posing serious problems in the outfit?s bid to regroup, intelligence sources said.

?As things stand now, the only way the Ulfa can make its presence felt is through hands-on involvement of its top leadership in the movement,? a highly- placed source said.

The Ulfa?s top leadership is known to have undergone rigorous arms training on foreign soil. But they ended up playing the role of backroom boys, based in foreign countries, ever since the outfit was able to raise ?commanders? who could carry out...

Guwahati, Feb. 7: The Assam government has finally agreed to the creation of forest development agencies (FDA) in every forest division of the state. This is expected to increase people?s participation in the conservation and protection of the state?s forest resources and to improve their livelihood. State forest minister Pradyut Bordoloi said here today that the creation of FDAs would also help the forest department to get funds directly from organisations without having to go through the normal channels. The department often gets funds after a long delay as the money has to come through the...

New Delhi, Feb. 7: Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi today announced that the much-awaited accord on constitution of a new administrative set-up for the Bodo heartland was likely to be signed with the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) on Monday.

?There were two issues on which we had differences with the BLT. Now that these have been amicably resolved, it is likely that an agreement will be reached during the next meeting,? he told newspersons here.

Gogoi said the rights of non-Bodos based in the territory that would be administered by the proposed Bodo Territorial Council (BTC) had been taken into...