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June 29, 2004 | Kalyan Barooah | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
The game of musical chairs among the ministerial aspirants has begun with the AICC constituting a three-member panel to handle downsizing of ministries in consultation with general secretaries-in-charge, chief ministers and PCC chiefs ... full story
June 28, 2004 | Rajeev Bhattacharyya | The Telegraph, Kolkata
The Centre has begun surveying the porous Mizoram-Bangladesh border with a view to fence the frontier, regarded as one of the hotspots of gunrunning in the Northeast. The National Building Construction Corporation Limited (NBCCL), whic ... full story
June 27, 2004 | Press Trust of India | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
Tension continued in the Dhansiri Reserve Forest area of central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district following an attempt to construct houses and a church there by Nagas from across the border, reports PTI. ... full story
June 27, 2004 | Press Trust of India | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
Faced with the task of downsizing their jumbo ministries, chief ministers of the north eastern states are planning to approach the Centre for raising the size of the Cabinet, reports PTI. Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang, also the c ... full story
June 26, 2004 | Staff Correspondent | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
The UPA Government’s stand on maintaining territorial integrity of North-Eastern States threatens to snowball into a major controversy with the Naga organisations hardening their stand on the issue. A delegation of three prominent Nag ... full story
June 26, 2004 | Anon | The Sangai Express, Imphal
Even as neighboring States like Nagaland and Meghalaya have worked out the model for the impending Ministry downsizing which will come into force from July 7, the Congress led SPF Government is still groping in the dark waiting for a nod  ... full story
June 23, 2004 | Press Trust of India | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
In the backdrop of abetment of movement of insurgents across the international border, Myanmarese and Indian Army official met at Dimapur to discuss strategies to launch operations against holed-up militants in Myanmar on the lines of a  ... full story
June 22, 2004 | Correspondent | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
Even as the army authority deployed in the State has denied to disclose their activities in flushing out of the Manipur-based insurgents along the Indo-Myanmar border, a high-level meeting of Indian and Myanmarese armies was held at Army ... full story
June 20, 2004 | Staff Reporter | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
A representative meeting of the Co-ordination Committee of Tribal Organisations, Assam (CCTOA) here today demanded clear-cut statement in the Draft National Policy for the Tribals (DNPT) on the protection of the tribal areas. The meet ... full story
June 20, 2004 | Correspondent | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
A delegation of the Myanmarese military junta is arriving at Rangapahar cantonment based headquarter of the 3 Corps to discuss the modalities for flushing out armed rebels taking shelter in the jungles of Myanmar inside Indo-Myanmar bor ... full story
June 20, 2004 | Press Trust of India | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
The Centre said it would work for peace through dialogue and take all steps for speedy economic development of the north-eastern region, reports PTI. The UPA government is keen to achieve peace through the process of dialogue and woul ... full story
June 19, 2004 | Staff Correspondent | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
Asserting that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre was concerned with the growth of extremist violence and other forms of terrorist activities, Minister DONER, PR Kyndiah offered his assistance in resolving  ... full story
June 17, 2004 | Press Trust of India | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, who was a ‘negotiator’ between the Centre and several underground outfits in the North-east for talks during the NDA regime, today said he was ready to offer his services to continue the process, if ... full story
June 17, 2004 | Press Trust of India | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
In its bid to undo the ‘saffronisation’ of education initiated by the previous NDA regime, the present Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government has started a ‘detoxifying’ process, Union Human Resources Development Minister ... full story
June 15, 2004 | Press Trust of India | The Assam Tribune, Guwahati
Taking exception to the letter by senior Congress leaders of the North- east to the Centre, Naga NGOs have charged former chief minister S C Jamir and the other signatories with ‘sabotaging’ the ongoing peace process at a time when the ... full story
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