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SHILLONG, Dec 1: Over 4000 people of Khasi-Pnars tribe, sheltering in relief camps for over three weeks in the Jaintia Hills district after fleeing their homes in Assam?s Karbi Anglong district following threats by militants, have started returning today, reports PTI. ?We have arranged transportation to help the Khasi-Pnars? return to their homes. They should leave today,? Jaintia Hills district Deputy Commissioner L Kharkongor told PTI over phone. The Khasi-Pnars, who had been put up in camps at Sahsniang village of Jaintia Hills district, agreed to return to their homes in Block I and Block...

GUWAHATI, Dec 1: The overall percentage of poll in the elections to 55 civic bodies of the State, including the Guwahati Municipal Corporation, held today, was between 65 and 70. The elections were by and large peaceful. No report of any major election-related violence, barring some stray cases at some places, has been received till the filing of this report from any corner of the State. Repolling in five centres of Karimganj Municipal Board and two centres of Dhubri Municipal Board is likely to be ordered by the State Election Commission (SEC) as reports of assault of poll officials and...

SHILLONG, May 17 : If things go all right, Meghalaya could very well bid its financial constraints adieu. After well-over a decade, investigation and drilling of uranium deposits ? said to be in plenty in the State ? by the Uranium Corporation of India (UCI) have resumed in the State.

The UCI has conducted geo-physical survey in Domiasiat area of West Khasi Hills and was now negotiating with the individuals. The State Government was not involved in the process, Chief Secretary J Tayeng told reporters here today.

Process of excavation of the precious mineral had begun in Meghalaya in 1992 as Rs...

Guwahati, June 15: A Kuki militant organisation has taken up cudgels for Moreh residents who have received extortion notices from outfits of the Manipur valley.

A leader of the Kuki Defence Force (KDF), which professes to represent the aspirations of the state?s Kuki community, said his group would not tolerate attempts by any militant outfit to harass the people of the border town.

Moreh, located on the Indo-Myanmar border, is a predominantly Kuki-inhabited area.

?We have taken serious note of some valley-based and hitherto unknown organisations serving extortion notes on local residents...

SHILLONG, June 15 ? The ?Maran Nagas? of Manipur and ?Reangs? of Tripura are among the 75 Scheduled Tribes in India who have been listed as ?primitive tribal groups? which were recording negative growth rates, according to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

The yardsticks adopted to identify those primitives are that their agricultural practices are obsolete; their health conditions and educational levels very poor resulting in a negative population growth rate, Ministry sources divulged here recently.

The highest number of 13 primitive tribes have been listed in Orissa, followed by Andhra...