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GOLAGHAT, June 6 ? The British government had declared large areas of Golaghat, Jorhat, Sivasagar and Karbi Anglong districts of the border areas of Assam-Nagaland as reserve forest areas according to the Bengal Forest Act. But now large areas of forest lands have been occupied by the encroachers, among them ? suspected foreign national of Bangladesh, and Nagas and they have turned them into villages. The suspected foreign nationals of Bangladeshi origin have felled trees and cleared and for cultivation, the local people have alleged. Duo to apathy of the forest department the world-famous...

GUWAHATI, June 6? While political expediency on the part of majority of our politicians on the issue of eviction of encroachers from forest land has been vitiating the social atmosphere here, the Supreme Court of India and the Union Environment and Forest Ministry, with the prudence to save the environment and maintain the ecological balance for posterity, have adopted a firm stand against the encroachers. The Supreme Court of India (SC) in its order in connection with the Interlocuttory Application (IA) Numbers 703 and 502, directed the Chief Secretaries of the States of Orissa, West Bengal...

GUWAHATI, June 6 ? Blame is now on the self-styled C-in-C of the prescribed ULFA, Paresh Barua, for the ?lost generation? in the State. A large number of families of ULFA members including those of top leaders like Sashadhar Choudhury and Pranati Deka, today filed cases against the ULFA C-in-C before Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) accusing him of forcing their wards to lead an abnormal life in ULFA ranks. Sri Chandra Kanta Deka, father of ULFA leader Pranati Deka and father-in-law of the outfit?s ?finance secretary? Chitrabon Hazarika, led the group of representatives from ULFA members...

GUWAHATI, June 6 ? The new Industrial Policy of the State Government for the year 2002 is expected to simplify and streamline the operational guidelines and procedures with a view to ensuring removal of hurdles faced by entrepreneurs and investment in setting up industries in the State, and also to take care of the introduction of Value-added Taxation (VAT) with effect from April 1, 2003. Hiranya Bora, Chairman of Assam Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC), said this at a conference on formulation of the new Industrial Policy of Assam here today.

The Industrial Policy declared in 1997...

NEW DELHI, June 6 ? Assam Government today formally sought compensation for the deficit grant awarded by the Eleventh Finance Commission (EFC), even as it called for early release of the outstanding Sales Tax dues to the tune of Rs 499.58 crore payable by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). Accompanied by former Union Finance Minister, Dr Man Mohan Singh, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today met Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee here this evening seeking his intervention in resolving the disputes. The meeting with the Prime Minister was proceeded by a separate meeting with Union Finance Minister...