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AGARTALA, July 15 ? The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd has found high quality gas reserves at Maicherra in Belonia subdivision. This will be first well in South Tripura district from where natural gas can be explored. The area comes under Uttarkholabaria gram panchayat. An ONGCL official here said the Maicherra gas is of high quality and according to preliminary estimate about 2-lakh cubic metre of gas can be explored a day from here. The ONGCL begun drilling in February last after a survey indicated gas reserve in the area. After drilling of about 2700 metre the gas was found. Presently...

KOHIMA, July 15 ? NSCN(K) will enforce its own regulations to check influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh to Nagaland, reports PTI. In a statement here today, the militant outfit, currently on a ceasefire under an agreement with the Union government, said it would issue ?temporary resident permit (TRP)? to Bangladeshi migrants whom the Nagas called ?miyas?. The organisation would issue TRP through its network to ?miyas? for a year, which, however, could be renewed Such people would be restricted to 2,500 per district, the statement said. It also asked land owners not to employ more...

Imphal, July 15: Chief Minister O Ibobi who also holds the Home portfolio today informed the Assembly that the Government is working overtime to chart out a rehabilitation scheme for surrendered militants. Replying to a call attention motion moved by Opposition MLA O Joy today, the Chief Minister said that as per the rehabilitation package announced by the Centre in 1999, with retrospective effect from April 1, 1998, a total of 27 of the 146 surrendered militants have been inducted into the State police force and the Manipur Rifles. The Chief Minister further said that under the rehabilitation...

Imphal, July 15: Power Minister Phungzathang Tonsing today informed the Assembly that the Centre is yet to give clearance to the 1500 megawatt Tipaimukh Hydro Electric Project. Responding to a question put forward by MPP MLA O Joy in the morning session of the Assembly today, the Power Minister said that following a resolution adopted by the Assembly on March 3, 1999 an MoU has been sent to the Centre by the State Government. However the Centre is yet to give the clearance to the Project which is to be jointly taken up by the Centre and the State Government. As NH-53 stands to be affected by...

GUWAHATI, July 14 ? Assam?s undisputed Samrat of modern poetry Padma Bhusan Navakanta Barua, who reigned over the State?s realm of poetry with uninterrupted dominance for over five decades, is no more. He breathed his last all of a sudden around 1 pm today at his Silpukhuri residence here while attending to some teachers from Mangaldoi College. He was 76. According to family sources, the poet had arranged for a family dinner with special hilsa dishes on the occasion of his youngest daughter Late Jhunuka Acharya?s marriage anniversary, at his residence. His eldest daughter Ainu and sons-in-law...