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	Assam Police -- News Flash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Chief Minister said necessary steps are being taken to modernise the police force to meet any eventuality by providing them with latest weaponry and communication equipment with the help of funds from the Union Government.
		He said Assam is a multi-racial and multi-religious society and the security forces have been put on alert to thwart attempts by any fundamentalist group to disrupt normal life in the state.
		Assam DGP H.K.Deka said that housing continues to be a major problem as the present level of housing facilities, which include accommodation for living and police stations, is one of the lowest in the country at about 13 percent while the national average is around 30 percent.
	assampolice.com /archives/apday.htm (701 words)

	Assam & The North-East : Election 2001
		Chhatisgarh Chief Minister and the party's leading spokesman has gone to the extent of saying that all the political parties from the DMK in the South to the AGP in the North East have lost because of their alliance with the BJP.
		While it is reassuring to learn that the new Chief Minister of Assam, Mr Tarun Gogoi, has put the economic development of the State and the task of controlling insurgency at the top of his agenda, he will do well to appreciate the herculean nature of both undertakings.
		A senior Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) leader and MLA who is likely to be sworn in as a cabinet minister tomorrow, told this scribe that the Education Department, mired in controversy and crippled by rampant corruption and gross irregularities in its functioning, had become too hot to handle anymore.
	www.axom.faithweb.com /election/may1620.html (4992 words)

	Assam
		Assam belongs to the Seven Sisters Region of Southeast Asia, which consists of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura.
		However, Mass, a human rights organization in Assam with a credible record, claims that during the period January 1 through July 21, a total of 202 people were killed in the state (of which 68 died at the hands of security forces and 57 were killed by the ULFA).
		Assam Police is in possession of evidence to prove the nexus of the top ULFA leadership with certain officials of the Pakistani High Commission in Dacca.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/assam.htm (2197 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Northeast
		Chief minister Tarun Gogoi hands over the replica of a cheque worth Rs 25 crore to R. Rangarajan (left), technical director of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd, as planning and development minister Himanta Biswa Sarma looks on.
		The chief minister handed a cheque for Rs 25 crore as the first premium for the insurance policy to ICICI-Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd.
		Gogoi said the policy would cover all residents of Assam whose names had been included in the electoral rolls as well as their dependants.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050726/asp/northeast/story_5033908.asp (395 words)

	Panchayat Leaders Meet in Assam
		Dressed in traditional Assam handwoven silk and cotton mekhala chadors the elected representatives were happy to meet and share their experiences and learn from each other.
		Assam by its sheer geographical position is in the eastern corner and is far away from the other states and new thinking in the country.
		The Assam Panchayati Raj Act 1994 must be amended and the model of Rajasthan’s Panchayati Raj system must be adopted wherein a lock-in period of 11/2 years should be there before bringing any no confidence motion against any women president of the Panchayat.
	www.thp.org /india/assam/assam506 (1917 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Indian PM holds Assam peace talks
		India's national security adviser and the chief minister of Assam were also present at the talks.
		However, Mr Baru refused to comment on whether the prime minister had agreed to discuss the issue of sovereignty, a ceasefire or the release of jailed Ulfa leaders.
		Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and a spokesman for the delegation also declined to comment on what had been discussed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/south_asia/4377388.stm (360 words)

	[Assam] [Fwd: Re: We Need Your Help]
		There is clear historical >>> evidence that the name of 'Assam' is not a coined >>> word by the British but which had been there long >>> before the British signed the Treaty of Yandaboo >>> on 24th February 1826 and used the word Assam in >>> the treaty.
		According to many >>> historians, the phonetic name 'Assam' was derived >>> from the Sanskrit name 'Shyam' (as in Shyam-dex, >>> the name of Thailand), the name of the Shan >>> people who invaded and conquered Kamrup in the > >> 13th century.
		But changing >>> the state's ancient name of Assam to a misguided >>> attempt at Roman transliteration of the Assamese >>> name 'Oxom' to 'Asom', with all the associated >>> costs: monetary, cultural and historical, is >>> certainly not one of them.
	www.mail-archive.com /assam@assamnet.org/msg09318.html (1742 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, two-time chief minister of Assam, is a shadow of his former self.
		The bungalow—which he had occupied as chief minister in 1986 and where he still lives with wife Jayshree, former MP, and three children—is silent except for the occasional telephone and the whir of fans in the drawing room which could do with some repair.
		Phukan, a confidant of Mahanta in their student days while leading the Assam agitation, feels that if the AGP were to lose the Assembly election the very relevance of regionalism would be lost.
	www.the-week.com /25oct23/currentevents_article2.htm (647 words)

	$2.6bn package for Assam, Manipur -DAWN - International; 26 November, 2004
		Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's decision to clear development projects totalling 92 billion rupees for the state, the most populous in the restive north-east with 26 million people.
		Announcement of the funds followed a three-day visit by Mr Singh to Assam and Manipur that he said was aimed at "winning hearts" in the region.
		Singh is "a modest man" and did not want to "make a big noise by announcing the development schemes during his visit to the region," the Assam chief minister told reporters who asked why the premier did not announce the package.
	www.dawn.com /2004/11/26/int13.htm (222 words)

	Assam: Ex-Rebels Turn Kingmakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Speaking on the occasion, BTC chief and party president Hagrama Mohilary said, “Our objectives are to implement the accord of the BTC in letter and spirit for the development of the BTC areas in all aspects and to carry on the good job in the rest of the state.
		Pramila Rani Brahma, minister for agriculture, welfare of plains tribe and backward classes, said the five years of the new government would be “a golden period for the people of the BTC”.
		chief minister seems unfazed at having a former guerrilla leader in the cabinet.
	www.saag.org /papers19/paper1836.html (1796 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		Rajiv Gandhi’s son is now in the thick of politics; Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, then president of AASU, has had two full terms as chief minister of Assam and is now languishing on the sidelines of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), the party that he helped form in the wake of the Assam Accord.
		Lt Gen (retd) SK Sinha, the then governor of Assam, in a report to the president in November 1998 had given a grim assessment: “As a result of population movement from Bangladesh, the spectre looms large of the indigenous people of Assam being reduced to a minority in their home state.
		Loss of lower Assam (the area close to the Bangladesh border) will severe the entire land mass of the Northeast from the rest of India and the rich natural resources of that region will be lost to the nation,” he added.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main12.asp?filename=Ne062505ASSAM_changed.asp (1099 words)

	Assam : Patil for review of Assam accord,Indian Politics, News Analysis, India News Online
		Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who was on a visit to the troubled region last week, has called for the strengthening of anti-infiltration measures along the India-Bangladesh border.
		The committee’s brief is to ascertain the boundary between the two states in the areas categorised as Block I and Block II in Karbi Anglong district of Assam, bordering Jaintia Hills and Ri Bhoi districts of Meghalaya and submit a report to the chief ministers of the two states.
		Promising to continue offering safe passage and security escorts to Bhutanese civilian convoys, the Assam Chief Secretary told the visiting delegation that Dispur was committed to ensuring the security of residents of the Himalayan kingdom during their visits to the border towns of the state.
	news.indiamart.com /news-analysis/assam-patil-for-revi-8805.html (1247 words)

	Assam Police: News Letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Chief Minister of Assam, Shri Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, formally released a publication on the history and development of the Assam Police since its inception at an impressive function held at the Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra on March 25, 2000 in the presence of a large gathering.
		The Chief Minister expressed satisfaction for organising the sports meet and said that it would go a long way in boosting team spirit and morale of the Police force in combating militancy in the state.
		Later the Governor held a meeting with officers of various departments of Government of Assam connected with rehabilitation and advised them to adopt innovative schemes for speedy rehabilitation of surrendered youths who have given up the path of violence and who are in the process of returning to the mainstream of national life.
	assampolice.com /newsletter/NewsLetter_02.htm (2040 words)

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		Ministers are aware of their duties.' There are allegations that Mr Das transferred officials from Dispur on basis of personal enmity.
		Addressing the 108th annual general meeting of the Assam Branch of Indian Tea Association on February 21 at Tezpur, he said that the latest available estimates indicated that exports would reach a level of 185 million kg registering a growth of over 20 percent against last year.
		A proposal was recently submitted to the Assam Government by the president of the Assam State Freedom Fighter's Association, Mr Navadwip Ranjan Patgiri, to earmark a fund of Rs.1 million for the purpose.
	www.cs.uccs.edu /~kalita/assam/news/1998/1998-02-23.html (1324 words)

	The Hindu : National : Assam sector of India-Bangladesh border will be sealed: Patil
		Guwahati: The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) on Tuesday said the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil had assured it that a vast portion of the Assam sector of the India-Bangladesh border would be sealed by December 2006.
		Patil and Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for an inspection of the border told reporters that they showed Mr.
		On Monday, the Union Home Minister and the Assam Chief Minister could see for themselves that a vast area of the border is still open and even the old barbed wire fence in many areas like Sonahat needed to be replaced," said Mr.
	www.hindu.com /2006/01/04/stories/2006010403501400.htm (626 words)

	Turning to peace
		The Assam government contended that these villages could not be given away since they had Bodos constituting less than 2 per cent of the population.
		Subsequently, the Centre, the Assam government and the BLT finalised the "ground rules'' to end the insurgency, with the BLT vowing to abide by the Constitution and the laws of the land.
		It had repeatedly rebuffed the overtures of the Centre and the Assam government, but now appears to be headed for the negotiation table, with its chairman Ranjan Daimari giving his associates the green signal for a political dialogue with New Delhi.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2005/stories/20030314003104700.htm (2092 words)

	Welcome to Environmental Information System
		The Assam Science Technology and Environment Council (ASTEC) was established in 1986-87 as an autonomous Council of the Dept. of Science Technology and Environment, Govt.
		The Chief Minister of Assam is the Chairman of the Body and the Commissioner and Secretary to the Govt.
		To advise the concerned departments/organisations of the Government of Assam, public bodies, etc. on various aspects of science, technology and environment, in so far as the departments/organisations are concern.
	www.envisassam.org /about.htm (611 words)

	Assam exit polls: Hung House ahead : assembly polls, assam, chief minister : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
		Former Assam chief minister and the leader of breakaway AGP, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta -- once a popular face of regionalism in the state -- fared poorly with just 4 per cent people approving him as their choice for leadership.
		While the first three -- Gogoi, Goswami and Mahanta -- have been projected as chief ministerial candidates of their respective parties, Sonowal seems to have emerged as a choice for those who didn't favour any of the three.
		Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi also scored high in the performance scale, with as many as 42 per cent people approving the performance of his government while 25 per cent of those polled said they think an AGP government would be better for the state.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/assam-exit-polls-hung-house-ahead/8091-4-1.html (460 words)

	Assam News Channel - Read Latest Guwahati and more Assam News Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Guwahati, Dec 21: Conservationists in Assam have alleged that the elephant killed on December 16 in Sonitpur district was "definitely not" the one against whom the forest department had issued a death warrant for killing 13 people in the state.
		Silchar (Assam), Dec 20: The second polio case in the span of a month has been detected in Assam's Karimganj district as WHO called for wider immunisation cover in the state.
		Guwahati, Dec 18: Controversy surrounds the slaying of `Laden' in Assam's Sonitpur district with the locals claiming that the slain elephant was not the killer rogue, prompting the forest department to probe the issue.
	www.newkerala.com /india/assam-news.php (945 words)

	Assembly Elections 2001: Expressindia.com in association with The Indian express: ASSAM
		The outgoing Assam chief minister alleged: "In several constituencies the AGP workers and supporters were threatened and warned not to report about such threats."
		Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta on Monday submitted his resignation to Governor Lt Gen (Retd) S.K. Sinha following the defeat of the AGP at the hands of the Congress in the 11th Assembly election in the State.
		Chief ‘exiled’, rebels violent, Cong in a shambles
	www.expressindia.com /election/assam (423 words)

	PM visits flood-hit Assam : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Prime Minister, along with Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries Santosh Mohan Dev and Minister of State for Defence Bijoy Krishna Handique, surveyed the worst-hit Nalbari, Kamrup, Darrang and Barpeta districts of the state.
		Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who could not go on the aerial survey with the Prime Minister as he was indisposed, submitted a memorandum to him in the meeting held after Singh returned to the airport highlighting the flood situation and the losses suffered so far.
		Assam Chief Minister Traun Gogoi has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to grant the state a post-flood management package to deal with the devastation caused by the natural calamity.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Jul/18/181_897327,001301120001.htm (267 words)

	Prafulla Kumar Mahanta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prafulla Kumar Mahanta (born 1952) was the leader of the Assam Movement, a former Chief Minister of Assam (two terms) and a former president of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a major political party in the Indian state of Assam.
		He served as the chief minister of the state for two terms, (1985-1990) and (1996-2001), and was one of the youngest chief minister's in the country's history.
		He is a former president of the All Assam Students Union, a student organization that led the Assam Movement between 1979 and 1985.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prafulla_Kumar_Mahanta (180 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		He made Assam his permanent address when Hiteswar Saikia, the late chief minister of Assam, offered to provide a safe seat for the new finance minister, in the PV Narasimha Rao regime.
		While most people in Assam have been happy to have this unpretentious academic, who ushered in the modern era in Indian economics, as their representative in Parliament, there have been occasional rumblings in Congress circles for being compelled to share scarce Rajya Sabha seats with central nominees.
		The All Assam Students Union (AASU), a powerful organisation, threatened to oppose the visit since the upa cabinet had decided to retain the IMDT Act against the decades-old demand of the Assamese nationalists to repeal it.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main9.asp?filename=op120404LEAD_ARTICLE1.asp (882 words)

	assam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Com.Sita Marandi, the leader of the Namoni Asam Cha Mazdoor Sangh of CITU and member of the Assam State CITU alongwith comrade Tamling Guria and Com.Fa Guria, all women workers of the infamous Mornoi Tea Estate were gunned down by the gangsters on 16th May, 1999, evening on their way to the garden.
		In a telegram to Chief Minister of Assam, the CITU General Secretary, M K Pandhe, demanded immediate action against the murderer-management nexus.
		In a separate letter to Chief Minister of Assam E Balanandan, MP President, CITU expressed strong indignation over the callous negligence of the State Govt in the matter.
	citu.org.in /assam.htm (430 words)

	Burma/Arakan News
		The Connectivity between Northeastern part of India and the South East Asian Nations including Burma was emphasized by the Assam chief minister during a New Delhi meeting on Wednesday.
		The NEC meeting, which was chaired by the Indian Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Mani Shankar Aiyar, was also attended by other chief ministers and Governors of the northeastern states.
		The Stilwell Road, starting at Ledo in Assam passes through the Pangsau pass in Burma to reach Kunming in the Yunnan province of South China is looked as a mean for improvement of trades between India and South East Asian countries.
	www.narinjara.com /details.asp?id=1029 (630 words)

	Sanctuary Asia - Take Action
		stretch in upper Assam's Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts is one of the last remaining rainforest expanses in the Brahmaputra valley.
		This stretch is also one of India's largest elephant corridors, and probably the most important one between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
		A detailed proposal has been submitted to the Assam government, asking for the declaration of the 500 sq.
	www.sanctuaryasia.com /takeaction/writeltr_assamforest.php (415 words)

	swati deb's Blog : What went wrong with Assam?, swati deb blogs on sulekha, Current Affairs blogs, swati deb blog from ...
		Now that Tarun Gogoi has got back his seat of power as Chief Minister of Assam, we find a few pointers from the last assembly elections in 2006.
		The maxim of live and let live is implemented religiously in Assam and other states in the region.
		In Assam, for instance the initial âanti-foreignerâ agitation against influx of Bangladeshis got embroiled into âBongali khedaâ (chase out Bengali) campaign and by as late as 2004 it turned against Biharis on the pretext that Biharis would take away the railway jobs meant for locals.
	swati-deb.sulekha.com /blog/post/2006/08/what-went-wrong-with-assam.htm (548 words)

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