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Guwahati, Jan. 29: Seventy-five-year-old Himangshu Sharma will no longer be a lonely man. A retired government official, Sharma can look forward to shifting to the state?s first old-age home coming up here shortly.

Sharma does not mind shelling out a bit of money, provided his stay at the Ambikagiri Memorial Trust Old Age Home is a comfortable one.

The trust, instituted as a public charitable one to cherish the memory of author Ambikagiri Roychoudhury, will build the home in three phases, the first of which will start in April. The home will come up on a plot allotted by the government at...

Imphal, Jan. 29: Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga?s demand for a boundary commission for the Northeast and merger of Mizo-inhabited areas of Manipur to his state has evoked sharp reactions from the Democratic People?s Party (DPP) and All-Manipur United Clubs? Organisation (Amuco).

Zoramthanga was quoted as having said at a news conference in Aizawl on Monday that he would urge the Centre to constitute a boundary commission for settling border disputes in the Northeast.

States carved out of Assam have boundary disputes with either Assam or other neighbouring states, Zoramthanga was quoted as...

GUWAHATI, Jan 28 ? Air connectivity in the North-east is all set to receive a big boost with the induction of four ATR-42 aircraft by Alliance Air, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indian Airlines. While two ATR-42 aircraft have already been pressed into service since last December, two more will join the Alliance Air fleet by end of March.

With all the four aircraft in operation, flights between Kolkata-Dimapur, Kolkata-Aizawl, Guwahati-Agartala, Guwahati-Lilabari, Guwahati-Silchar, Guwahati-Imphal, Silchar-Imphal, Guwahati-Aizawl, Guwahati-Dimapur and Silchar-Agartala will be a daily affair...

IMPHAL, Jan 29 ? As announced earlier, mass protest rallies under the banner of the Committee Against Tipaimukh Dam taken out simultaneously at Tamenglong Headquarters, Nungba and Luangmai (Noney) recently denounced the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Government of Manipur and the North East Electrical Power Corporation (NEEPCO) for construction of the Hydro Electrical Project at Tipaimukh along Manipur-Mizoram border.

Nearly 650 villagers including school students, non-Manipuri shopkeepers took part in the rally held at Luangmai (Noney). Carrying placards and banners...

GUWAHATI, Jan 29 ? After three years of peace talks between the State and Central Governments and the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT), only one issue, that is reservation of seats in the proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) is delaying the signing of an accord for solution of the vexed problem. The leaders of the BLT are not willing to accept the State Government?s proposal on reservation of seats in the proposed council to be formed under the provisions of the amended Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India, while, the State Government, on its part, is yet to take any decision on the...