48 fall ill after midday meal in Tripura

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIR_CAKCnP34ZLgOBjvq5jN6V2-ceXrqEbvprTu_7s1pFE2-y0TJN2T8JDvwMlckCUg8WW3GqTdrVu1_aVB29cVMgDpCjfJln2FCrrN3SwVGDrVRmdJx7FuGVSWrefPWqrgWyIPv0jYqXT/s1600/Midday+Meal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIR_CAKCnP34ZLgOBjvq5jN6V2-ceXrqEbvprTu_7s1pFE2-y0TJN2T8JDvwMlckCUg8WW3GqTdrVu1_aVB29cVMgDpCjfJln2FCrrN3SwVGDrVRmdJx7FuGVSWrefPWqrgWyIPv0jYqXT/s200/Midday+Meal.jpg"></a></div>Agartala, August 28, 2014: Forty-eight students of the Noapara senior basic school in Sipahijala fell ill and were rushed to hospital after consuming food supplied under the midday meal scheme, a State Minister said today.

48 fall ill after midday meal in Tripura

Agartala, August 28, 2014: Forty-eight students of the Noapara senior basic school in Sipahijala fell ill and were rushed to hospital after ...

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Decks cleared for LGBI airport expansion

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJLjkot5ySrXUNHUnNXUCg1QEIybbCu-7ljL4w1sybDicR9Q-2_rrzpfOqOelNCJ6LdN6nxBgLtelqVlzDCAY9U9W4lMmncMDi4ko_yuyRt8pA4SgisIr6Das2WXo0QayoXE02RjfJTaS9/s1600/LGBI+Guwahati+Airport.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJLjkot5ySrXUNHUnNXUCg1QEIybbCu-7ljL4w1sybDicR9Q-2_rrzpfOqOelNCJ6LdN6nxBgLtelqVlzDCAY9U9W4lMmncMDi4ko_yuyRt8pA4SgisIr6Das2WXo0QayoXE02RjfJTaS9/s200/LGBI+Guwahati+Airport.jpg" /></a></div>New Delhi, August 28, 2014: Decks have been cleared for expansion of the Lokapriya Gopinath Bardoloi International (LGBI) Airport, with the Union Cabinet sanctioning the land-swap deal with the SOS Village.<br /> <br /> Official sources said that the Cabinet, in its meeting held on Wednesday, approved the swapping of land measuring 2397 square metres with the Airport Authority of India’s (AAI) equivalent airport land measuring 2397 square metres.<br /> <br /> The agreement would pave the way for construction of hangars at the LGBI Airport. The Secretary General, SOS Village, has already given his consent in writing for swapping of the Village land with the AAI land.<br /> <br /> The construction of the hangar on the swapped land will facilitate development of the LGBI Airport. This decision will also help in greater social inclusion of the north-eastern region. The construction of three hangars to park a large number of aircraft will facilitate increase in the number of scheduled and non-scheduled operators to meet the growing traffic demand.<br /> <br /> Source: Assam Tribune<br />

Decks cleared for LGBI airport expansion

New Delhi, August 28, 2014: Decks have been cleared for expansion of the Lokapriya Gopinath Bardoloi International (LGBI) Airport, with the ...

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AHRC notice to Govt in Priya’s killing

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJ-xXbI2JNVCsZk7Jv2Ks9fFLjnUW0OVROFNRCflL0fh8ndnjwuQ3mnpsLdESopKLPpn8hLJlmtavIj__fzg79T7Ze3-rxhCMorOErl9ZpkF4n3YVzWpUpynuxdXuY00ljdqWueMGrT6L/s1600/NDFB+Insurgents.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJ-xXbI2JNVCsZk7Jv2Ks9fFLjnUW0OVROFNRCflL0fh8ndnjwuQ3mnpsLdESopKLPpn8hLJlmtavIj__fzg79T7Ze3-rxhCMorOErl9ZpkF4n3YVzWpUpynuxdXuY00ljdqWueMGrT6L/s200/NDFB+Insurgents.jpg"></a></div>Guwahati, August 28, 2014: The Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has issued notice to the Assam Chief Secretary asking for an effective inquiry into the allegations of inaction by the State government and police in recovering the body of Priya Basumatary, who was recently killed by NDFB(S) militants in Chirang district.

AHRC notice to Govt in Priya’s killing

Guwahati, August 28, 2014: The Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has issued notice to the Assam Chief Secretary asking for an effective i...

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Assam-Nagaland border row: State lost 157 lives in four decades

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFYq37RE5xsfassiMEYxKiLcWoT583DOExoGDE-b26dMqc1uq6J5FfDw9vSPyVrLlOMzTun0TIQoEb6lJJtUXQpiTQQuNUefoLil1fY4pWtYkoy5xMR4VB7RRTuirVEwV6JyMHc7iXfxa1/s1600/Assam-Nagaland+Border+Clash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFYq37RE5xsfassiMEYxKiLcWoT583DOExoGDE-b26dMqc1uq6J5FfDw9vSPyVrLlOMzTun0TIQoEb6lJJtUXQpiTQQuNUefoLil1fY4pWtYkoy5xMR4VB7RRTuirVEwV6JyMHc7iXfxa1/s200/Assam-Nagaland+Border+Clash.jpg" /></a></div>Guwahati, August 28, 2014: A total of 157 people of Assam have died and 166 have been injured in incidents of violence in and around the areas bordering Nagaland in the last 40 years. Only two Naga persons have died during these incidents.<br /> <br /> The Golaghat district has borne the brunt of the violence, accounting for 131 deaths in nine clashes during 1977-2014. The Sivasagar district accounted for the maximum number of incidents of violence – 96 (from March 1972 to June 2014) – resulting in 19 deaths.<br /> <br /> The list of the dead includes 31 Assam Police personnel and three CISF personnel.<br /> <br /> Naga miscreants and NSCM militants were found to be involved in most of these violent incidents. The Nagaland government has set up offices, police stations, hospitals, markets, etc, in large numbers in the illegally-occupied land inside Assam.<br /> <br /> This was revealed by Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain on behalf of the Border Areas Development Minister, in reply to a question by Phani Bhushan Choudhury (AGP).<br /> <br /> The Nagaland government has carried out a lot of infrastructure development in areas inside Assam that it has encroached. These include school buildings, health centres, PWD roads, churches, police battalion posts, petrol pumps, water supply, power supply (Jorhat district); check gate, weekly market, police station, petrol pump, office of the Additional Deputy Commissioner, forest office, bank, post office, power office, police colony, rest house, etc, (Sivasagar district); and the Merapani township, forest office, border magistrate office, transport office, council office, government primary school, foothills, office of the Additional Deputy Commissioner, health centre, government high school, government ME school, BDO office, bank, police station, farm, saw mill, church, private school, market, etc (Golaghat district).<br /> <br /> Hussain said that of the total 78 inter-State border outposts (BOPs) in the State, 54 are located in the Assam-Nagaland border. There is a move to set up five more BOPs in the border areas of Sivasagar district.<br /> <br /> Source: Assam Tribune<br />

Assam-Nagaland border row: State lost 157 lives in four decades

Guwahati, August 28, 2014: A total of 157 people of Assam have died and 166 have been injured in incidents of violence in and around the are...

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RN Ravi interlocutor for Naga peace talks

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirJMKG-_n3sSpBNU-fewB_Uk3gu0YqyoPcFO6TWZe6j1a_SUD63FiD6r-OvK_PxDTbM_V0rNiMSf47fthcXz7Sf9N207UnookPvYAimxmSDEJyTL6-AsgzZA0qCWDz-XMN5v3QmATByUjf/s1600/RN+Ravi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirJMKG-_n3sSpBNU-fewB_Uk3gu0YqyoPcFO6TWZe6j1a_SUD63FiD6r-OvK_PxDTbM_V0rNiMSf47fthcXz7Sf9N207UnookPvYAimxmSDEJyTL6-AsgzZA0qCWDz-XMN5v3QmATByUjf/s200/RN+Ravi.jpg"></a></div>Guwahati, August 28, 2014: The Government of India is keen on expediting the peace talks with both the factions of NSCN and today, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), RN Ravi, was appointed as the ‘official interlocutor and the Government of India’s representative for Naga talks’.

RN Ravi interlocutor for Naga peace talks

Guwahati, August 28, 2014: The Government of India is keen on expediting the peace talks with both the factions of NSCN and today, the chair...

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CBI raids Himanta, Anjan, Sankar Barua’s houses

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIDE4K_xZcuD6uZZghgJSt35IY9CYn600rjBq5zHndf5D0fStH69Zjk93hGBrHgIHxkdYg4X6R_6_e-DfRiE3jUpyWsXuJ4UGXAK6Q9IM01C6KuW1haCOPBoU-3kKccMLxoouTpfXOgep7/s1600/Sankar+Barua,+former+Assam+DGP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIDE4K_xZcuD6uZZghgJSt35IY9CYn600rjBq5zHndf5D0fStH69Zjk93hGBrHgIHxkdYg4X6R_6_e-DfRiE3jUpyWsXuJ4UGXAK6Q9IM01C6KuW1haCOPBoU-3kKccMLxoouTpfXOgep7/s200/Sankar+Barua,+former+Assam+DGP.jpg"></a></div>Guwahati, August 28, 2014: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today carried out major raids in the residences of a couple of political heavyweights and a retired senior police officer in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam.

CBI raids Himanta, Anjan, Sankar Barua’s houses

Guwahati, August 28, 2014: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today carried out major raids in the residences of a couple of politica...

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