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UDALGURI, Feb 5 ? ?We, the Bodo organisations would like to have a satisfactory solution of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) issue at the earliest so that everybody living inside the proposed territory may have a prosperous and dignify home with co-operation from all ethnic groups. For this, the present problem of 93 villages (to be included or not) should not be a hanging issue in forming the much awaited BTC.? This problem could be solved by way of forming committee even after formation of BTC.? This was stated by Urkhaw Gwra Brahma the Rajya Sabha MP during a brief chat with the local...

Guwahati, Feb. 4: The North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Limited (NEDFi) has called for laying emphasis on industries which can use local resources and have a local market.

Speaking at business meetings organised by the NEDFi at Silchar and Aizawl recently, its chairman and managing director J.P. Saikia said as big investments and outside investors were not forthcoming, the priority should be to develop local material.

The business meets were organised to woo local entrepreneurs of Barak Valley in Assam and Mizoram and to attract investors from outside to these regions.

Saikia...

NEW DELHI, Feb 4 ? Unimpressed by the progress in implementation of projects in the North-east, Prime Minister?s Office has constituted a special committee headed by Union Cabinet Secretary to monitor the progress of three selected projects. The projects which were part of the Prime Minister?s 28-point economic package has been making tardy progress forcing the PMO to intervene. The projects included the Rs 6,608 crore lower Subansiri Hydel project, North East Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (NEIGRIMS) and the border fencing project.

All the three projects have run out of...

GUWAHATI, Feb 4 ? Delay in allotment of land, insufficient supply of boulders to construct the guide bund along the approach road on both north and south banks of Brahmaputra coupled with local resistance movements are causing delay in implementation of rail-cum-road bridge project at Bogibeel in Upper Assam. Talking to this newspaper, Sri VK Madhukar, Chief Engineer (Construction), of the NF Railway which is implementing the project, said that the Railway is desperately looking forward to take stone quarries on lease to maintain constant supply of boulders for construction of the approach...

SHILLONG, Feb 4 ? Former Finance Minister and sitting MLA from the Jaiaw constituency A H Lyngdoh is confident of retaining his seat. Talking to The Assam Tribune, Sri Lyngdoh said the voters would take into account the developmental work done by him. Asked if the going would be tough for him this time with former KSU chief and president of the Khun Hyniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHWAM) pitted against him, the veteran politician said ?it is not a question of age versus youth.?

A former bureaucrat, Lyngdoh, who is a candidate of the newly formed Meghalaya Democratic party (MDP)...