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One of the main aims of the Government of India is to work for welfare of people. The Government helps to reduce the inequalities between the rich and the poor by providing government jobs to all. Maps of eastern states of India North Eastern States of India are Sikkim and the seven sister states if India.
A political uncertainty is being observed in Meghalaya with 18 MLAs demanding now ouster of Mukul Sangma as Chief Minister to be replaced by D D Lapang. Mukul Sangma is now in New Delhi after he was summoned by Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi. Dissidents MLAs have called for a CLP meeting.
It may be recalled that, Mukul Sangma ad become CM of Meghalaya after replacing D D Lapang on 20 April 2010.
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In South Garo district today in the early morning at around 1:45AM, five labourers were shot dead by suspected Garo National Liberation Army ( GNLA ) millitants at Gokha coal depot, about 10 km from Baghmara, the district headquarter.
According to police sources, Four of the labourers Rambadan Yadav from Uttar Pradesh, Suhagin and Habibul from Assam and Nur Mohammad from Meghalaya were killed on the spot while another labourer Jamin from Assam succumbed to his injuries at hospital.
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CAG report on Meghalaya State finances for the year ended March 31, 2010 has noted that “ratio of development expenditure of Meghalaya is higher than the other northeastern states on an average, which indicates that the state is giving more priority to this category compared to other states of North East India.”
the Meghalaya government’s expenditure on health as a percentage of AE (aggregate ex-penditure) was higher than the n ortheastern states’ average during the years 2005-06 and 2009-10, whereas expenditure on education was lower, the CAG report tabled in the assembly today highlighted.
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There have been allegation that Garo and Rabha people from Meghalaya hills bordering Rabha dominated Goalpara district in Assam were under tension for long time now! This ethnic turmoil were started on small incidents of fight among small groups of people over the time, but now it has taken an ugly turn which resulted in death of 4 people, burning down of few villages.
While it is reported that, few Rabha villages have been burnt down, Assam Rabha Students Union (ARSU) had called for 500 hours economic blockade against Meghalaya.
Shillong Chamber Choir, which made North East India proud by winning ‘India’s Got Talent – Khoj 2′ on Colors TV earlier this month, has been invited by the Government of India through the Ministry of External Affairs to perform before visiting US president Barak Obama.
“We have been invited by the Government of India through the Ministry of External Affairs. The invitation came much before we won the reality show,” said Damon Lyndem, bass singer and media coordinator for the choir.
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North Eastern Hill University, popularly known as NEHU has been in the news for students staging non-operation protest against recently appointed vice chttp://www.northeastblog.in/wp-admin/post-new.phphancellor A.N. Rai. NEHU students are demanding his removal as Vice Chancellor for the prestigious university of the North East India.
KSU ( Khasi Students Union) has also supported agitating NEHU students with demanding a tribal person be appointed as vice chancellor.
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A crude bomb was lobbed from a moving vehicle to a bakery shop in Tura, in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district which resulted in injury to seven people. The explosion took place at 6:45AM and state Police has sounded red alert in Meghalaya.
Though no militant group of North East India has claimed the responsibility for the bomb explosion, but Meghalaya Police suspects that Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA), a rebel group operating in the region. [Read more...]
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