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Imphal, June 23: The State Government has revised the cost of the Loktak Down Stream Project to be taken up under the Prime Minister's package and reduced the cost of the project by Rs 87.30 crs from the earlier estimated cost of Rs 758.92 crs. The revision was made following an agreement between State Government officials and the Power Secretary, Government of India on May 16. The total cost was reduced to Rs 671.61 crs as per the price index of March this year. The revised project report has been submitted to the Centre. However it is still not clear whether the report has been accepted by...

GUWAHATI, June 22 ? At a time when the State Government is facing a serious financial crunch and is not even in a position to pay the salaries to the employees regularly huge amounts of money running into crores of Rupees due to the Police Department from banks and other organisations including Central Public Sector Undertakings are lying unpaid for years. According to information available with the Assam Police Headquarter, the total dues from different organisations for providing security would be more than Rs 25 crore. Interestingly, some organisations have not paid the amount due to the...

NEW DELHI, June 22 ? Outlawed ULFA and NDFB militants may face more heat from the Royal Government of Bhutan, with the 80th session of the National Assembly of the country all set to hold threadbare discussions on activities of the militant groups running bases in the country. That the militant outfits may be slapped with fresh ultimatums to quit the country is indicative from the series of high-level meetings being held by the Home Minister of the country. The most recent daylong high-level meeting was held on June 11 at Gedu. He had earlier held similar meetings at Deothang and Gelephu...

GUWAHATI, June 22? Yet another scam of misappropriation of public funds surfaces in a Government department of this fund-starved State. The department is the Social Welfare Department and the amount involved is around Rs 2.10 crore. The modus operandi of the scamsters in this case was that they used to make ?payments against fictitious bills for ?supply? of nutritious items in Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) areas between 1999 and 2001. The scheme was drawn under the Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana (PMGY) for the benefit of the children. Though there was a strict direction to transfer the amounts to...

JAMUGURIHAT, June 22? Three businessmen were killed by militants belonging to the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) at Yogibeel near Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border under Rangapara police station at around 9 p.m. yesterday. According to information available, five NDFB militants in Army fatigue, armed with AK 47 rifles and 9 mm pistols, came to Yogibeel area on foot and picked up Jiten Boro (30), general secretary of the Yogibeel business committee from his residence. They also picked up two other businessmen from the area-Zarman Daimary and Saman Basumatary and asked them about the...