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SHILLONG, June 9 – Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) has claimed that land owners in Meghalaya’s Domiasiat area have given their consent for mining of the radioactive mineral, reports PTI.

“We have interacted with the land owners and they have given their consent in principle,” UCIL chairman and managing director R Gupta told reporters here on Sunday. The UCIL claim came in the backdrop of a visit by a high-level team comprising Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar, Gupta and others to Domiasiat, about 150 km from here on Friday. Several social organisations in Shillong...

GUWAHATI, June 9 – The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has decided to take the opinion of lawyers before deciding on the next course of action against two suspended legislators Ali Akbar Mian and Abdul Jabbar after the Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly Prithibi Majhi rejected the party’s petition on their disqualification.

The Speaker rejected the petition of the AGP for disqualification of the two legislators on the ground that the party failed to file the petition within the stipulated time. The Chief Whip of the AGP Legislature Party Hitendra Nath Goswami pointed out that the petition was...

SHILLONG, June 9 – The ruling Congress in Meghalaya has asked the 12th Finance Commission for a special assistance to modernise the State’s police force and creation of additional battalion of armed police to enforce law and order in the State. The three-member delegation of the party told the Commission that peace was prerequisite for any development in the State. And to maintain peace, the government should have an adequate manpower to enforce law and order.

“So special assistance may be given to the government for modernisation of police force and creation of additional battalion of...

GUWAHATI, June 9 – The Buddhist community of the North-east region has expressed deep concern over the growing incidents of harassment and persecution of the Buddhist tribals by the militants and the security forces as well in the remote areas of Arunachal Pradesh. The Purvanchal Bhikkhu Sangha, in a statement received here recently, said that the militant outfits NSCN (IM) and the NSCN (K) had demanded annexure of the land belonging to the Buddhists and other indigenous people of Rima Putak, Thikhak Putak, Motongsa and Longchong villages in Tirap Changlang district in Arunachal Pradesh.

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Kohima/Dimapur, June 8: The Nagaland Congress has revealed that a delegation of the ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) government, led by chief minister Neiphiu Rio, met senior AICC leaders in New Delhi last week and expressed their wish to return to the Congress fold. The state unit of the Congress said it would have nothing to do with the DAN under Rio’s leadership. “They have started showing their real colours,” said PCC general secretary Yesonu Veyie in a release.

Describing Rio and his colleagues as “political chameleons”, Veyie accused them of not having “an iota of conviction...