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Assam oil blockade loss pegged at Rs 60 crore

The 96 hour oil blockade in Assam, called by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), against oil and exploration giant ONGC has hit hard the corporation. ONGC has incurred an estimated loss of Rs 60 crore

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Meghalaya CM firm on leasing of land to UCIL

Meghalaya Chief Minister DD Lapang today reiterated the stand of his government not to revoke the Cabinet's decision to lease out land to the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL)

CM stresses on importance of gas-based industries in Tripura

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has reiterated the importance on setting up gas-based industries in the state, utilising the abundant gas available

Tripura PSUs to get revised pay scale with effect from Jan 2009

Tripura Public Sector Units (PSUs) employees will get revised pay scale and allowances with effect from January one this year. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting

AC not to field candidates in Arunachal Assembly polls

Regional party Arunachal Congress (AC) has decided not to field any candidate in the forthcoming assembly election in the state due on October 13

Papers filed for October 13 Arunachal Assembly polls

With notification issued on September 18 for October 13 Assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh, as many as 36 candidates from various political parties have filed their papers so far

NPF pulls out of Arunachal polls

The Nagaland Peoples Front (NPF), which had decided to participate in the Assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh, scheduled on October 13, has pulled out from the election scene of that state following the rejection of Election Commission of India (ECI)

Heavy security for Durga Puja in Tripura

More than 4000 men in uniform, besides plainclothes personnel, would be deployed across Tripura to maintain law and order situation during Durga Puja, while the BSF was asked to keep a close vigil along Tripura-Bangladesh border

Breeding vultures for the Parsis’ World !

As the vultures in the Indian sky are missing, the Parsi people living in the country remained worried, of course for a religious reason. The Parsis, who fled Persia-the present-day Iran-centuries back after Islamic uprising practise the religion of Zoroastrianism