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Shillong, Jan. 30: Meghalaya chief minister F.A. Khonglam, who is yet to extricate himself from the online lottery and CGI sheets controversies, is now facing the allegation of sitting over official papers resulting in the loss of Rs 100-crore ?incentive fund? provided by the Centre.

Sources said the Khonglam-led state government had lost out on the Rs 100-crore ?incentive fund? as it had ?goofed up? the mandatory memorandum of understanding which it had to sign. The MoU is signed between the state government and the Centre, following which the money is released to the state.

The matter was...

Guwahati, Jan. 30: On a cold January morning, some fishermen in Goalpara came up with a catch which they had never seen nor heard of: a deep-sea rayfish from the depths of the Brahmaputra.

The discovery of the rayfish in freshwater has prompted the state zoo authorities to launch a project to study its journey from the deep seas to the Brahmaputra.

The zoo authorities have made arrangements to display the rare fish. Visitors thronging the zoo are making a beeline for the enclosure housing the fish ? albeit long dead ? to get a glimpse of the marine specimen weighing 150 kg with a body span of...

Guwahati, Jan. 30: The North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (Neepco) has once again threatened to regulate power supply to state governments of the region for failing to clear their outstanding dues.

A Neepco communiqu? issued by L.A. Kharmawphlang, assistant manager (public relations), said the situation has come to such a pass that the corporation is finding it difficult to run its power stations and continue uninterrupted supply of power. ?We will be compelled to regulate power supply to the defaulting states,? the corporation said.

The total outstanding dues of the...

KOHIMA, Jan 30 ? Incidence of HIV infection among intravenous drug users (IVDU) has registered a declining trend but the ante-natal cases and the spread of the dreaded disease through sex is on the rise in Nagaland, the sixth most-affected state by HIV/AIDS in the country. The incidence of HIV infection among drug users appears to be reducing due to greater awareness and targeted intervention projects carried out by NGOs and Nagaland AIDS Control Society, state chapter of National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) for the past couple of years, according to official sources here.

Although...

GUWAHATI, Jan 30? The All Assam Koch Rajbongshi Sanmilani and the All Koch Rajbongshi Students? Union have called upon the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to take immediate steps to include Kochi Rajbongshi community in the list of Scheduled Tribes.

In a memorandum to the Prime Minister, the Sanmilani and the Students? Union said that the Koch Rajbongshi community fulfils all the criteria required for inclusion in the list of Scheduled Tribes but unfortunately, the community was not included in the Comprehensive Revision Bill for SC and ST, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on August...