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June 17, 2004 | Staff Reporter | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
The tea industry in the Barak Valley is facing a fresh crisis with the labourers threatening to go on strike demanding a hike in wages. This is the second major crisis faced by the industry within the last couple of months as floods an ... full story
June 16, 2004 | Correspondent | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
The State Government has released Rs ten crore for rehabilitation of 10,000 families of relief camp inmates who are languishing at different relief camps in Dhubri, Bongaigaon and Kokrajhar due to the Bodo-Adivasi ethnic violence in 1 ... full story
June 16, 2004 | Umanand Jaiswal | The Telegraph, Kolkata
The Tarun Gogoi government and the World Bank are close to signing an agreement to put in place a “market-driven rural economy” with assistance of around Rs 917 crore from the latter. Headed by Australian Robert Epworth, an eight-member ... full story
June 12, 2004 | Staff Correspondent | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
Assam Government has sought Rs 170 crore incentive package from the Union Commerce Ministry for attracting investors to buy the Assam Tea Corporation (ATC). ... full story
June 12, 2004 | Staff Reporter | The Sentinel, Guwahati
The Economic Survey of Assam, 2004, which was released today by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi contains mixed news for the people: whereas it projects an impressive growth rate of GDP and per capita income of the State, it warns that the in ... full story
POLITICSLAST 10 HEADLINES
• Blow to Bodo unity hope (December 5, 2005)
• Migrant menace jolts Manipur (December 5, 2005)
• AASU moves rights body (December 4, 2005)
• BSF points finger at Bangla (December 1, 2005)
• Gogoi may induct new faces in ministry (June 30, 2004)
• ADF cadres to lay down arms: Wanglat (June 30, 2004)
• Mizo BJP workers resign en masse to protest Hindutva policy (June 30, 2004)
• Ripples over Mizo accord messages (June 30, 2004)
• Karbi outfit locks horns with UPDS (June 30, 2004)
• CPI demands two berths in Ibobi govt (June 30, 2004)


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SOCIETYLAST 10 HEADLINES
• Saturday night fever in Shillong  (June 30, 2004)
• Banned outfit wages war against drugs  (June 29, 2004)
• High level of alcohol abuse in NE: UN report  (June 26, 2004)
• Bazaar dialect intrudes Naga homes  (June 26, 2004)
• Fr Andrew to be first Garo Bishop of Tura  (June 25, 2004)
• History book on Tripura Raj Bhavan  (June 25, 2004)
• Horror stories with happy endings  (June 25, 2004)
• Pilgrims throng Kamakhya temple  (June 24, 2004)
• Hunt for history’s hidden treasures  (June 24, 2004)
• November toast to Mawphlang wine  (June 23, 2004)


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 • Blow to Bodo unity hope (December 5, 2005): Prospects of a reconciliation between bickering Bodo political leaders evaporated today as a ?special political convention? got under way in Kokrajhar, one that is expected to lead to the formation of a parallel set-up of the Bodoland People?s Progressive Front (BPPF).
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 • Migrant menace jolts Manipur (December 5, 2005): Assam was galvanised into action over two decades ago, Tripura realised it when it was too late and Manipur has just woken up to it.
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 • AASU moves rights body (December 4, 2005): The All Assam Students? Union (AASU) today filed a complaint with the Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) against police action on teachers who organised peaceful protests in Guwahati and Sivasagar.
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 • Protests to pave path for AASU?s Asom Sena (December 3, 2005): Just days before launching its Asom Sena, the All Assam Students? Union (AASU) today upped the ante by announcing a series of agitation programmes against the government on various issues.
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 • Boundary dispute exists, says Mizo party (December 3, 2005): Mizoram People?s Conference party has refuted the state government?s stand that no official boundary dispute exists with Assam.
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 • Delhi talks tough on Naga truce (December 3, 2005): Delhi today decided to ?keep all options? open on continuing its ceasefire with the NSCN (Isak-Muivah) even as the army pressured it to amend the truce rules to prevent the militant group and the rival Khaplang faction from repeatedly getting away with violations.
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 • BSF points finger at Bangla (December 1, 2005): BSF inspector-general S.K. Dutta has said Bangladesh has become the hotbed of ISI and al Qaida activists. Addressing a news conference today on the eve of the BSF?s Raising Day, he said said his force was more concerned over the security of the border and transborder movement of militants to and from the neighbouring country ... More

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 • House unites on bandh ban (November 30, 2005): Prodded by public disenchantment with strikes, saddled with loss of mandays and crores of rupees and buoyed by the Opposition?s support, the Assam government today announced in the Assembly that it was considering a legislation to ban bandhs.
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 • Lapang in board deadlock (November 29, 2005): The Congress-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) today failed to reach a consensus on the proposed move to amend the Meghalaya Board of School Education Act, 1973. ... More

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 • Ulfa team pitches for political talks (November 28, 2005): Citing the ?NSCN (I-M) experience? to bolster its claim that negotiations with bureaucrats lead nowhere, the Ulfa-constituted People?s Consultative Group today insisted on ?political-level talks with Delhi from the very beginning?. ... More

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NORTHEASTLAST 10 HEADLINES
• NE ecology groups send letter to MoEF  (April 17, 2005)
• Centre’s NE hydel policy ignores floods  (September 9, 2004)
• Social activists resent construction of mega dams in NE  (August 24, 2004)
• NE dam projects need serious review  (August 24, 2004)
• World Bank to aid hydel projects  (August 5, 2004)
• Brahmaputra projects may affect ecology  (August 5, 2004)
• Doubts over NE hydel projects  (August 1, 2004)
• Rs 12.25 cr for NE to boost trade  (June 30, 2004)
• DONER releases fund for Nagaland power project  (June 30, 2004)
• Tug-of-war on to retain berths  (June 29, 2004)


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TRIPURALAST 10 HEADLINES
• CPI minister forced to resign by CPI-M cadres  (June 29, 2004)
• Minister denial  (June 29, 2004)
• CPI fumes at big brother act  (June 28, 2004)
• CPI hurdle in Tripura downsize  (June 27, 2004)
• Tripura flood situation turns worse  (June 26, 2004)
• History book on Tripura Raj Bhavan  (June 25, 2004)
• Rebels oust tribals for not paying ‘tax’  (June 23, 2004)
• NLFT wants Rs 60 lakh to free traders  (June 23, 2004)
• 952 killed, 1200 abducted by ultras in Tripura  (June 19, 2004)
• Land redistribution worries refugees  (June 16, 2004)


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