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CM to meet KSU, CCSO tomorrow on Uranium mining issue

Nov 3rd, 2009 | By neitham | Category: Meghalaya

Shillong, Nov 2, 2009: In a bid to end the stand-off over the uranium mining issue the Meghalaya government will hold talks with the Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) and Coordination Committee for Social Organisation (CCSO) on November 4.



Bahuguna brings ‘Save Himalaya’ movement to N-E

Nov 3rd, 2009 | By neitham | Category: Others

Guwahati, Nov 2, 2009: Noted environmentalist and Chipko movement leader Sunderlal Bahuguna has brought the ‘Save Himalaya, Save Water, Save Life’ movement to the North-East India to raise mass awareness over the dire need to protect and preserve the ecology of Himalayan region against the onslaught of global warming.



Demonstration by TE workers

Nov 3rd, 2009 | By neitham | Category: Assam

DIBRUGARH, Nov 2, 2009 – More than a thousand tea garden workers from four divisions of the Lepetkata tea estates staged demonstration in front of the head office of the tea estate at Lepetkata here today in protest against the alleged highhandedness and gross negligence of the tea garden management towards the employees.



Daiyang residents get land owner certificates

Nov 3rd, 2009 | By neitham | Category: Assam

DERGAON (GAMARIGURI), Nov 2, 2009 – State PWD Minister Ajanta Neog today distributed 25 land owner certificates at a ceremony held at Gamariguri in Golaghat district. Speaking at the ceremony held on the premises of Barnali Rangathali and attended by over 5000 people from greater Daiyang area, she said the State Government was doing everything [...]



‘Arunachal package to be expedited’

Nov 3rd, 2009 | By neitham | Category: Arunachal

ITANAGAR, Nov 2, 2009 – Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu has said the administration would expedite the completion of projects declared by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the State.



Nagaland’s disaster management in poor shape

Sep 30th, 2009 | By neitham | Category: Nagaland

Dimapur | September 29, 2009: The State government appears to be in sleeping mode despite the series of seismic activity and tremors which had rocked the state in the last one month alone. Although there has been no casualty till date, the frequency of the recent quakes has led to questions being raised about the [...]



‘UCIL cannot fool people anymore’

Sep 30th, 2009 | By neitham | Category: Meghalaya

NONGSTOIN, Sept 29, 2009: “The UCIL cannot take innocent people for a ride anymore by falsely projecting that the pre-development projects to be carried out in the uranium belt of West Khasi Hills district are for the development of the area and not meant for facilitating uranium mining,” KSU general secretary Hamlet Dohling asserted.



KSU to take uranium protest to Delhi

Sep 30th, 2009 | By neitham | Category: Meghalaya

SHILLONG, Sept 29, 2009: The Khasi Students’ Union’s (KSU) campaign against the proposed uranium mining in the State has gained further momentum with the union deciding to align with anti-nuclear activists from all over the country under the banner of National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM) to protest against the Centre’s nuclear policies, programmes and [...]



UCIL, ONGC turn to Assam village in uranium search

Sep 30th, 2009 | By neitham | Category: Assam

NEW DELHI, Sept 29, 2009: Even as the move to mine uranium in Meghalaya has faced stiff opposition from NGOs and the public, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has zeroed in on one village in neighbouring upper Assam for the precious metal to provide energy for deficient power plants in the country.



NSA for 4 AMUCO men

Sep 30th, 2009 | By neitham | Category: Manipur

Imphal, September 29, 2009: Out of the nine members of AMUCO, arrested by the police on September 14, in connection with the ongoing public agitation over the July 23 Khwairamband Bazar incident, four of them have been detained under National Security Act, while three have been granted bail against a surety bond of Rs 50,000 [...]