text: The Assam Govt. is taking all necessary measures and adequate steps to protect its boundaries from illegal encroachment by the neighbouring State of Nagaland. Likewise sincere efforts are also being made for protection of lives and properties of the people living in these Border Areas. Many developmental schemes have been taken up to provide the people with all basic amenities of life. All incidents on the border are tackled promptly to ensure that they do not escalate to major law and order problems. Efforts are made by the local district administrations to maintain a high level of alertness with a view to ensuring peace, safety and security of the property of common man living in these areas. Eviction drives are carried out as and when necessary by the Revenue and Forest Department of Assam. To bring together the people living in the borders, the Govt. has initiated to Border Outreach Programmes which include cultural, social, music and sports events held in each border district with the counterpart district across the border. Deputy Commissioners, Superintendents of Police, Hon’ble MLAs, PRIs officials and general publics have participated enthusiastically and such programmes have generated much goodwill.
  The State of Assam filed Original Suit No. 2/1988 before Hon’ble Supreme Court for identification of boundary and resolving of border disputes with Nagaland and for granting permanent Injunction restraining the State of Nagaland from encroaching the areas within the constitutional boundary of Assam and to declare that state of Assam as rightful owner of all the encroached areas and direct the state of Nagaland to hand over peaceful possession of those areas. The matter is now in the trial stage before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India.
  As regards border disputes with Meghalaya all efforts are being made at bilateral level to bring about a mutually acceptable solution. At the behest of Govt. of India, Nodal Officers from the two states have been appointed for the Assam-Meghalaya border issues. Meetings of Nodal Officers are held from time to time for sorting out border problems of the two states and to minimize the points of difference between the two States. The last meeting between the Chief Ministers of Assam and Meghalaya took place on 01/04/2017.
  There is no major dispute with the State of Mizoram on border issues. The boundary was notified under Notification No. 2106 AP dated March 9, 1933.
  A meeting was held at Shillong, Meghalaya on 24th September, 2014 between the officials of Assam and Mizoram, wherein it was agreed to maintain the status quo along the border of Assam-Mizoram.
  
  ‘Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home’ is the third of the linked trilogy of ‘Star Trek’ movies that started with ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’ and then with ‘Star Trek III: The Search For Spock’. It’s also the fourth film to feature ‘The Original Series’ cast of Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Sulu, Chekov and Uhura.
  This film was made in 1986 and again produced under the eye of Harve Bennett. It was also directed by Leonard Nimoy, who makes his second directing contribution to the ‘Star Trek’ film franchise following his success with directing ‘Star Trek III’. This film also has the original ‘Star Trek’ team at their best.
  My parents and I purchased ‘Star Trek IV’ on a 2-disc special edition DVD sometime on the borderline of 2004/2005. We didn’t purchase all the ‘Star Trek’ films in one lot, as we went through each film one by one and purchased the next ‘Star Trek’ movie after we’d enjoyed the previous one.
  The 2-disc special edition DVD has the following contents. The movie is on Disc 1 with the bonus features on Disc 2. ‘Star Trek IV’ has the feel of a classic ‘Star Trek’ episode from the TV series. It’s a time-travel story and has a good blend of elements in comedy, drama and action-packed adventure.
  The film follows on from the events of ‘Star Trek III’. After saving Spock and restoring him to life on Vulcan, the former Enterprise crew have to face the consequences of their actions back at Starfleet. Admiral Kirk and his crew are now charged with some very serious violations of Starfleet regulations.
  Thus the title of this movie as the Enterprise crew makes the ‘voyage home’ back to Earth to face their trial. To add to their humiliation, they have to travel back not on the Enterprise (as the good ship was destroyed previously), but in the Klingon Bird of Prey ship which they stole in ‘Star Trek III’.
  But on the way from Vulcan to Earth, the Enterprise crew receive a universal-wide message from the President of Earth. The President warns everyone not to approach Earth as a crisis occurs. An alien probe passes through space and soon arrives in Earth’s orbit, transmitting a very strange alien signal.
  The alien probe is causing trouble for Earth, as the alien signal it transmits causes oceans to be evaporated and the atmosphere destroyed. It also affects operations at Starfleet headquarters in the 23rd century as they can’t make contact with the alien probe and they are slowly getting destroyed.
  Hearing the strange alien message for themselves, Spock and the Enterprise crew soon discover that the alien message is actually the song sung by whales – specifically humpback whales. This is a surprising revelation and pretty tricky to solve as humpback whales are extinct by the 23rd century.
  There’s only one way to solve this situation. Kirk and the Enterprise crew must travel back in time to Earth’s past to find and recover some humpback whales and to bring them forward into the future. This they do, and the Enterprise crew in the Klingon ship soon end up back on Earth in the year 1986.