Politics / Meghalaya

TURA, May 12 ? Unabated influx from across Bangladesh and neighbouring Assam is threatening the very existence of the Garo people residing in the plain belt areas of West Hills. The issue continues to be sensitive and very little is being done by the government to check this menace that threatens to change the demography of the region. The vast porous border coupled with seasonal floods adds to this influx. The continuous influx can be realised from the last Population Census in which areas of Muslim settlers had dramatic increase in their population. In some areas the population had...

Shillong, June 10: Police in Meghalaya are homing in on a nexus between state employees and the banned Hynniewtrep Nationalist Liberation Council. An ensuing probe could result in several heads rolling.

Over 20 government officials in Meghalaya have come under the police?s scanner for allegedly providing ?accounts-related information? of government departments to the outfit.

The Meghalaya home department is contemplating ?serious action? against some high-ranking officials of the PHE department for passing ?vital information? about the department?s activities to the rebel outfit. State home...

SHILLONG, June 6? The Meghalaya Peoples? Human Rights Council (MPHRC) and the Hill State Peoples? Dmocratic Party (HSPDP) have strongly opposed any move to carry out uraniam mining at Domiasiat in the West Khasi Hills district on the ground that radiation from the mineral would pose health hazards, besides affecting the environment.

Both HSPDP president H.S.Lyngdoh, MLA and MPHRC secretary general DDG Dympep taking part at a national seminar on Environmental and Sociological Implications of Mineral and Oil Exploration in North-east India? held here Thursday, expressed concern over the...

SHILLONG, June 6 ? ?We want to start the project for mining uranium in Domiasiat, West Khasi Hills district only with people?s cooperation,? Chairman, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL), Dr R Gupta declared on Thursday. ?Although the exploration for uranium deposits in Domiasiat was completed in 1992, mining has not been taken up till date due to the apprehensions in the minds of the people of the area and in the State of Meghalaya as a whole,? Gupta told reporters on the sidelines of a national seminar on ?Environmental and Sociological Implications of Mining of Minerals and Oil...

SHILLONG, June 2? Women of a major constituent of the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) have demanded empowerment and asked for their share in the party?s hierarchy and constitution, reports PTI. ?Empower US? was the focal theme of most of the speakers, mainly from villages, at the meeting M R Mawlong, one of the convenors of the women?s wing of United Democratic Party (UDP), told reports at the end of the party conclave here on Saturday. UDP with nine members is the second largest constituent in the Congress-led MDA government in the state.

Elaborating their concept of empowerment...

TURA, May 28 ? In a gruesome incident, suspected Garo militants belonging to the banned A?chik National Volunteers Council (ANVC) executed a village headman and another villager in East Garo Hills on Monday night. In yet another incident, a hardcore ULFA militant surrendered before Tura police in West Garo Hills. A group of heavily armed ANVC militants went to the house of Malindro M Marak, the Lasker (Headman) of Raja-A?pal village, near Bajengdoba, shortly after 10 pm on Monday. They took him out of the house and fired a single shot into his head killing him on the spot. Similarly another...

SHILLONG, May 27 ? A merger between the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and People's Democratic Movement (PDM) is in the offing in Meghalaya, party General Secretary P A Sangma said Tuesday, reports PTI.

''A talk of merger between the NCP and PDM is going on. Perhaps by the end of the month, this process will be over'', he told reporters here. While NCP has 14 seats in the assembly, the PDM has no representative in the 60-member state assembly. Stating that the NCP was presently busy in strengthening its organisation, he said ''we are satisfied with the role of a constructive Opposition. We...

SHILLONG, May 23?Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang has questioned NCP leader Purno Sangma?s claim to be a facilitator for talks with the ANVC. Speaking to newsmen at the state secretariat conference hall Friday afternoon, Lapang said the government will probe why and under what circumstances the sitting MP from Garo Hills met with the militant outfit, asserting, ?Nobody is above law. Even DD Lapang, Chief Minister is not above law.?

Sangma who is NCP national general secretary and his party colleague Adolf Lu Hitler R Marak have both claimed to have held talks with the outlawed ANVC...

SHILLONG, May 21 ? Meghalaya government today rejected NCP general secretary PA Sangma?s claim of being a facilitator of talks between the Centre and insurgents, saying that the Centre did not authorise anyone to facilitate talks, between some insurgent groups of the state and New Delhi, reports PTI.

?We have received a letter from Union Home Secretary N Gopalswamy saying the government of India has authorised nobody to negotiate with militants of Meghalaya,? state?s home minister R G Lyngdoh told a press conference here.

Sangma, a Lok Sabha member from Meghalaya?s Garo Hills region and...

SHILLONG, May 20 ? NCP General Secretary P A Sangma today said he was working as a ?facilitator? of talks between the Centre and some insurgent groups of Meghalaya with the knowledge of the Union Government, reports PTI. ??I am doing my bit as a facilitator to bring some insurgent groups for a dialogue with the Centre and I reiterate that I am doing it with the knowledge of the Government of India??, Sangma, a Lok Sabha member from Meghalaya, told reporters here without naming the militant outfits. He said if any politician took any initiative to bring insurgent groups to the negotiating table...