Politics / Meghalaya

TURA, August 10: The Tura campus of the Northeastern Hill University (NEHU), even after years of its establishment, continues to function from the hostel of the Government Boys High School. A site selection committee for looking into the acquisition of land for the permanent campus has already selected a large area outside Tura on the National Highway. But now there is concern among the people of Garo Hills that even this selection will only be on paper as the state government is yet to pay up. The Garo Graduates' Union (GGU), an influential and intellectual group, has expressed concern over...

IMPHAL, August 4: The All Manipur Students' Union, has expresses deep concern at the publication of a news item in a Shillong based daily, to the effect that the AMSU had pressurised students of the CAU, who hail from outside Manipur, to leave the state. AMSU representatives told media persons at a press meet that the AMSU had never pressurised CAU students from neither outside the state to leave nor for shifting of the CAU from Manipur, and questioned the grounds on which the allegations had been made. Remarking that the situation at CAU remained tense in the aftermath of the attempt by...

IMPHAL, August 4: A one man enquiry committee to be headed by the deputy director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural research, ICAR, SL Mehta, has been instituted to investigate the reasons behind the attempted mass exodus of non local hostellers of the Central Agricultural University, CAU, at Iroishemba, according to a CAU press release. The term of enquiry of the one-man committee would also be to identify responsible person for the attempted flight, if any. Meanwhile, although complete normalcy has still not been brought to the crisis, it definitely seems to be very close by...

IMPHAL, August 4: Following the announcement of an inquiry into the Central Agriculture University (CAU) incidents by the Deputy Chief Minister of the state, Leishangthem Chandramani Singh, the situation in the university campus has totally calmed down. It may be noted that a total of 96 students from Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh,Tripura and Mizoram had tried to run away from the Irishemba Agriculture University hostels packing all their belongings on August 2 morning. The Deputy Chief Minister, who is the Chief Minister-in-charge, said that certain developments had come up regarding the...

IMPHAL, August 3: In what could be construed as a blow to the academic atmosphere in the entire north-eastern region, all the students of the Central Agriculture University (CAU) at Irsishemba here, barring Manipuri and Sikkim students, have made a vain bid to leave the varsity campus and the state alleging harassment. However, they were intercepted by a strong team of Manipur Police in time and were sent back to their respective hostels with their bag and baggages on Wednesday. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, SS Bhagel, while talking to The Assam Tribune said that he had no idea about...

IMPHAL, August 2: Altogether 96 students from Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh, who were studying at College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Iroishemba, abruptly fled the college early this morning without informing the authorities and tried to leave the state, but were stopped by the police. The fleeing students were forcibly taken back to the college later this afternoon but not before a tussle with the police that left several students injured. The 96 students, including a number of girls, left their hostels with their luggage early this morning without...

SHILLONG, July 21: The All Meghalaya Assamese Union (AMAU) has decided to submit memoranda to the Meghalaya and Assam Chief Ministers demanding reintroduction of Assamese language subject MIL in all educational institutions in Meghalaya. An emergent executive body meeting of the AMAU, which was presided over by Anu Ranjita Kalita here recently also urged the Government of Meghalaya to fill up all the vacant posts of Assamese subject teacher in the government educational institutions. The meeting further decided to sponsor textbooks for the libraries of Shillong Vidyalaya, Dhankheti LP School...

NEW DELHI, August 12: Despite the ``Sangma factor'', the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has failed to make inroads into northeastern states which have among them 24 Lok Sabha seats. Political observers believe that former Lok Sabha speaker P.A. Sangma would win from Tura in Meghalaya again. However, they feel the NCP would not be able to win Shillong, the second Lok Sabha seat in Meghalaya as the United Minority Front (UMF) is well entrenched there. ``Sangma would himself win again from Tura but his party has little chance of winning from Shillong,'' a senior leader close to Sangma said...

SHILLONG, August 11: The growing demand for implementation of the Instrument of Accession, by which 25 Khasi states joined India in 1947-48, today received a fresh impetus as a Syiems, Lyngdohs and Sirdars, the heads of the states, urged the Union government to give effect to the provisions of the long-forgotten instrument. The demand was raised at a meeting of the Dorbar of the heads of the traditional institutions comprising the Syiems (equivalent of erstwhile Rajas in other parts of the country prior to Independence), Lyngdohs and Sirdars at the office of the Syiem of Mylliem here. The...

SHILLONG, August 4: The United Democratic Party legislature party will meet on August 10 to take a "final decision" on the future of the one-year-old UDP-Congress coalition government in Meghalaya. The UDP central executive committee in its meeting on July 21 had authorised the party's legislature party to take a decision on the issue. The meeting has assumed significance in view of the defeat of the ruling Meghalaya Parliamentary Forum candidate in the election to the post of deputy speaker yesterday. The common Opposition candidate, Martin M Danggo, was elected as 10 ruling coalition members...