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NEW DELHI, May 15 ? The contentious gas supply agreement between the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and the Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has been clinched, thereby clearing a major hurdle in the implementation of the mega gas cracker project in Assam. The resolution of the dispute between the ONGC and the RIL was announced at a review meeting of the gas cracker project, chaired by Union Chemical and Petrochemical Secretary, Vinay Kohli here yesterday.

According to sources, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (P&NG) was expected to take another two to three weeks to identify...

KOKRAJHAR, May 15 ? In a significant move, the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) today decided to reconsider participation in talks with the Centre if the Government fails to show a positive stand on solution of the Bodo problem. This decision was taken at the central executive committee of the BLT held in Kokrajhar today. Briefing newsmen after the meeting, the BLT chairman, Hagrama Basumatary said that the BLT representatives would desist from participating in talks with the Government without instruction from the ?BLT cabinet?. The BLT chairman said that the Assam Cabinet?s decision on the...

IMPHAL, May 14 ? In one of the biggest hauls of contraband a police team of the Lamlai police station in Imphal East seized around 2300 kgs ganja worth Rs 6,44,000 in local market here from a truck at Lamlai check post on Sunday. The seizure of the huge quantity of contraband ganja took place when the team carried out a first-king programme along the Imphal-Ukhrul road in Lamlai area. The ganja was packed in 115 packets of 20 kg each and were concealed beneath logs. Police said the ganja was brought from Sanakeithel area. The police team arrested five persons, including the driver of the truck...

TURA, May 14 ? Sunday morning?s shooting incident in which two persons were shot dead and several injured by suspected A?chik National Volunteers Council (ANVC) and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants in the heart of Phulbari market has once again shown that the West Garo Hills police are unable contain the activities of these militants. On Sunday, shortly after 11 am a group of ANVC-NDFB militants, numbering eight daringly entered the Phulbari market, which is on the border with Dhubri district of Assam. The militants came in a Tata Mobile vehicle from Garobadha...

GUWAHATI, May 14 ? The State Government has decided to ?rename? the District Library, Guwahati as the State Central Library. However, the Government notification issued in this connection made it clear that this renaming would be ?without modification of the pay scale of any of the posts therein?. The notification (No AR 35/2000/1, dated Dispur, the 14th August/2001) said that this step was taken in the ?interest of public service?. It also did not mention anything about a separate District Library that the city has a legitimate claim to for its being a district headquarters. The Government...