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SHILLONG, June 5 – President APJ Abdul Kalam has deputed the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) of India, Dr Anil Kakodkar to Meghalaya to dispel apprehensions regarding possible radiation hazards arising out of the proposed uranium mining project at Domiasiat in the West Khasi Hills district of the State. Dr Kalam had assured a group of MLAs from Meghalaya, who called on him last month at New Delhi of soon deputing a team of experts to explain the ground realities of uranium mining, in the wake of stiff opposition to the proposed mining by certain NGOs on the ground that this...

Imphal, June 04: With the deadline (July 7) for reducing the size of the SPF Ministry to 12, fast approaching, the SPF Govt has started drawing up a tentative list of the Ministers likely to be dropped and likely to be retained. Expectedly intense lobbying and behind the scene activities have intensified with a number of young Ministers audibly voicing their stand against any move to drop them. Disclosing this to The Sangai Express a well placed source said that according to the tentative list, Thoubal district may have three or two Ministers including the Chief Minister. Abdul Salam from...

SHILLONG, June 4 – The Meghalaya Government will soon take up the issue of state-based militant camps in Bangladesh with the new government at the Centre, as part of a fresh approach towards tackling the menace of militancy. Chief Minister DD Lapang and Home Minister Robert G Lyngdoh will visit New Delhi to meet Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil to discuss militancy in the state, besides the issue of North-east-based militant camps in Bangladesh after the state budget session in the end of the current month.

It may be mentioned here that the Border Security Force (BSF) has handed over a fresh...

AIZAWL, June 4 – The Mizoram Government on Thursday submitted to the visiting members of the 12th Finance Commission a number of proposals to tide over financial problems which included sufficient funds to cover the revenue deficit in the form of revenue deficit gap grant and share in taxes, reports PTI.

The State Government, which is almost totally Centrally funded, urged the Finance Commission to raise divisible share of the states in all Union taxes and duties from 29.5 per cent to 33 per cent and to earmark 30 per cent of the shareable pool of taxes for special category states like...

IMPHAL, June 4 – A tribal students’ body has launched an indefinite economic blockade since Wednesday along portions of two national highways in Manipur to press for its demands, the organisation said, reports PTI. In a statement, the All Tribal Students Union Manipur (ATSUM) president, John Pulamte said the decision to call the blockade along portions of Imphal-Dimapur NH 39 and Imphal-Silchar NH 53, was taken during an emergency meeting of the ATSUM. He said the government had failed to consider their demands which included appointment of adequate teachers for hill schools and added that...