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GUWAHATI, May 17 ? Almost all the 23,191 bigha, 4 katha and 6 lechas of settlement area of the Government land in Guwahati city is under encroachment. The city has in all 24,283 bighas of Government land which include khas, ceiling surplus and VGR land. The city has two revenue circles ? Guwahati and Dispur. All Government land under the Guwahati Circle, including 110 bighas of hilly land in Kharghuli area, are under encroachment, said official circles here today.

However, it is worthmentioning here that the official documents have treated 4,500 bighas of Government land in the city area...

NEW DELHI, May 17? The Union Human Resources Development Minister, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi today declined to make any commitment to set up a Central University at Kokrajhar but assured that the Central Government would implement proposed agreement between the Centre and the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT). The Union Minister responding to a question by U. G. Brahma at the Rajya Sabha here today, urged members to exercise caution and have patience as talks between the Government of India and BLT was on and setting up of Central University besides several other Central institutions were part of the...

Imphal, May 17: Fifty-two personnel of 7 MR today challenged the state government's order directing the shifting of the battalion to Taphou, under Senapati before the Gauhati High Court. The order to shift the battalion, at present located at Khabeishoi, was issued by the home department on May 9 last. The counsels for the petitioners pleaded before Justice H Kaminikumar Singh for quashing the government's order. One of the five contentions submitted by the petitioners was that the state government had on an earlier instance, issued an order for shifting the 1st MR to Taphou. The government...

NEW DELHI, May 16 ? Contrary to general perception that it is always the State which fails to deliver on time, it now appears that Central Government projects also suffer from time overruns, for progress of as many as 26 centrally funded road and bridge projects in the North Eastern Region (NER) have been identified as slow. The Department for Development of North Eastern Region (DONER) having identified the projects, has started reviewing the progress of the work, a few of which have been categorised at critical, for expeditious implementation. The Minister in-charge for DONER, Arun Shourie...

KOHIMA, May 14 ? The NSCN (I-M) on Tuesday criticised the statements of Manipur?s United Council of Manipuris (UCM) on the current Naga peace talks and termed such observations as ?propaganda?, reports PTI. The Information and Publicity wing of the underground outfit, which is in talks with the Centre for finding an amicable solution to the vexed Naga problem, while describing the UCM ?outbursts? as ?most unhealthy and unwarranted? at a time when a peaceful solution is sought for, urged the council not to mislead the Meities and create animosity with the Nagas inhabiting in Manipur. In a...