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GUWAHATI, June 8 ? The State Government has decided to sell off the 14 gardens of the Assam Tea Corporation (ATC) to overcome the prevailing financial crisis in the oldest corporation. The State Government has also asked the Corporation to invite tenders from interested parties to finalise a deal in this regard. It may be recalled that, earlier the chief minister, Sri Tarun Gogoi had asked the Corporation to lease out the gardens, but due to some problems, the private parties had to back out from the process.

Official sources today informed The Assam Tribune that the deal would be finalised...

Imphal, June 08: Setting a trend for other political parties to follow suit and with an aim to project an image of a clean party untainted by corruption and graft charges, the State unit of the CPI has gone ahead and declared the assets and wealth of its MLAs and Ministers. The CPI is a constituent partner of the ruling SPF Government and has five MLAs. The assets of the Ministers and MLAs were announced during a press conference held at Irabot Bhawan today. Save for IFCD Minister N Mangi all the other four CPI MLAs, Ph Parijat, Dr N Nara, M Nabadwip and M Tomba were present at the conference...

Imphal, June 08: The victims of Assam Rifles reprisals following the May 17 ambush near Leplen Kuki village in Ukhrul district have demanded an ironclad guarantee of safety for the villagers from the chief minister, O Ibobi Singh, and the commanding officer of the 25 Assam Rifles. The chairman of the relief committee formed to aid the victims, Ngamjalen Singsit, told media persons at a press conference held at JN Hospital that the victims are still afraid to return to their villages without such a guarantee. Singsit acknowledged that the chief minister O Ibobi had provided a sum of Rs 10,000...

KOHIMA, June 7 ? The Vice-Chancellor of Nagaland University Prof GD Sharma has urged the ?Visitor? of the university and President of India KR Narayanan to relieve him from the post with immediate effect, reports PTI. In a letter to the President, who holds the post of honorary Visitor of the university, Sharma Monday requested him to take note of his last August?s letter relinquishing the post in the wake of mounting pressures from teachers and the student community for his resignation. While requesting the university ?Visitor? to kindly accept his decision ?to relinquish the VC?s post with...

GUWAHATI, June 7 ? The United Bodo Nationalist Liberation Front (UBNLF) has called for ?freedom? of the Bodo Indo-Mongoloid people in the N-E region and submitted a memorandum on this to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, reports PTI. Speaking as president of UBNLF, Kanakeswar Narzary, who is on oath under the Constitution as Bodoland Executive Council chief, Thursday said, ?UNBLF believes in the principles of non-violence to acquire freedom in the N-E region as India acquired freedom from the Britishers.? In a signed statement, Narzary said an emissary of ths Front submitted a memorandum to...