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New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The Rising Northeast Investors Summit 2025 and its pre-event roadshows have attracted investment interest worth Rs 4.48 lakh crore for the region, Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Sukanta Majumdar informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.The Rising Northeast Investors Summit 2025 was held in Delhi on May 23-24 last year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the summit on May 23, 2025.Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, Majumdar said…

Shillong/Aizawl, March 9 (IANS) The North Eastern Council (NEC), under the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), has released Rs 5.73 crore for Mizoram in February 2026 to support several key development initiatives aimed at strengthening infrastructure, agriculture and public service delivery in the state.The fund is part of a larger allocation of Rs 67.41 crore released across the Northeastern region during February to promote balanced regional development, according to an o…

New Delhi/ Dhaka, Jan 29 (IANS) Bangladesh’s National Economic Council (NEC) has significantly downsized the health and education sector in the Annual Development Programme (ADP), according to a media report.In the tradition of reviewing the performance of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) at the mid-point of each fiscal year, the NEC downsized the ADP by about 12.5 per cent, to 208,935 crore taka (3.3 per cent of GDP) from its original budget allocation of 230,000 crore taka (3.7 per cen…

Agartala, Jan 7 (IANS) Investors from across the country have expressed their willingness to invest around Rs 15,000 crore in Tripura, with projects worth Rs 4,000 crore already implemented across 68 ventures, officials said here on Wednesday. A senior official of the state’s Industries and Commerce Department said that Tripura has secured the top position nationally for effectively adopting the single-window system for approvals related to land, construction, services and other sectors. He sa…