SHILLONG, May 4 – Three prominent NGOs of the State have asked the Uranium Mining Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) to quit Meghalaya immediately. The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU), Meghalaya People’s Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) and the Hynniewtrep Environmental Site Protection Organisation (HESPO) have rejected the UCIL’s invitation for a debate on the proposed mining of uranium at Domiasiat in the West Khasi Hills district and instead asked the latter to pack up their bags and “get out of our land.”

The NGOs reiterated their decision to continue the movement against uranium mining in...

SHILLONG, May 4 – Denying any rift among the five partners of the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) in the wake of fielding separate candidates for the April 20 Lok Sabha polls in the Shillong constituency, Chief Minister D D Lapang has claimed the coalition was ‘intact,’ reports PTI.

“The fact remians that the we have started together and we stick to that. We got no complaints and petitions (about misunderstandings among the allies).... MDA is intact,” Lapang told reporters here yesterday on a question of a possible rift in the ruling coalition. Lapang said the alliance partners...

Nagaon, May 4: The pro-talks faction of the United People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) today asked the apex organisation of the Kuki community to be realistic about its demand for a separate regional council for the Singhasan Hills of Karbi Anglong. It said the Kukis were neither an indigenous tribe of the district nor the dominant community in terms of population to deserve a separate regional council within the boundary of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council.

UPDS publicity secretary Tong-Eh-Nongloda accused both the Kuki National Assembly and the Kuki Inpi, Assam, of attempting to gain...

ITANAGAR, May 3 – A forum – the ‘Rights of Indian Citizens in Arunachal Pradesh’ has been formed to examine the effect of restrictions like Inner Line Permit (ILP) and on the citizens’ permanent residentship in the State in the wake of inclusion of Chakma-Hajong refugees in the electoral rolls, reports PTI.

A 13-member ad-hoc committee under the chairmanship of the Opposition Congress MLA TC Teli has been formed and will meet after the ongoing Lok Sabha polls to work out the detailed agenda.

Teli told newsmen here on Sunday that while the genuine Indian citizens who had “given their lives”...

DIMAPUR, May 3 – Former Prime Minister and JD(S) president HD Deve Gowda on Sunday said the United Front Government under him was the first regime at the Centre to make serious efforts to remove regional imbalances and solve the insurgency problem in the North East.

“I have been the only Prime Minister who visited the region for seven consecutive days and announced the first economic development package to remove the infrastructure bottlenecks in the North East,” Deve Gowda told PTI here. The former Prime Minister said he was aware of the long-felt demands and needs of the people of the...