Garo rebels kill three in Meghalaya
July 20th, 2012 - 11:56 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, July 20 (IANS) Three people, including a school teacher, were killed by rebels of the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) in two separate incidents in Meghalaya's East Garo ... Read more...
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GNLA guns down school teacher in Meghalaya
July 20th, 2012 - 2:03 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, July 20 (IANS) The Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) has gunned down a school teacher, accused by the rebels of being a police spy, in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills ... Read more...
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Suspected arms dealers nabbed in Assam
April 28th, 2012 - 9:57 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, April 28 (IANS) A joint team of Assam Police, Meghalaya Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Saturday arrested four suspected arms dealers from Gorchuk area of Assam's main ... Read more...
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Four GNLA cadres killed on Assam-Meghalaya border
April 5th, 2012 - 3:48 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, April 5 (IANS) Four members of the militant group Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) were killed in a gun battle with security forces in East Garo Hills district of ... Read more...
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Garo rebel killed, camp busted
February 9th, 2012 - 8:01 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Feb 9 (IANS) Security forces Thursday busted a hideout of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) in Meghalaya, killing a rebel and wounding another, an official said.Meghalaya's Special Weapons ... Read more...
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Two civilians killed, abducted manager untraced in Meghalaya
January 18th, 2012 - 1:14 am ICT by IANS
Shillong, Jan 17 (IANS) Two bullet-riddled bodies were recovered in insurgency-ravaged district of East Garo Hills in Meghalaya Tuesday, even as police are still clueless about the whereabouts of the ... Read more...
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From palaces to people: Urdu mushaira reaches out
January 1st, 2012 - 4:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) Dispelling fears of its demise, the 'mushaira' (Urdu poetry recital) has made a comeback in Delhi, symbolically completing a journey from the durbars of the ... Read more...
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Two Garo militants killed in Meghalaya
December 18th, 2011 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Dec 18 (IANS) Two rebels of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) were killed in a gunfight in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills Sunday, police said.The battle broke out in ... Read more...
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Another Chennai student dies in Nepal accident
October 23rd, 2011 - 1:32 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Oct 23 (IANS) A bridge collapse in Nepal has claimed the life of another girl student of the Mar Gregorios Arts and Science College here, an official said Sunday."Amida ... Read more...
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‘Link between Meghalaya rebel group, student activists’
September 4th, 2011 - 10:58 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Sep 4 (IANS) The Meghalaya Police Sunday unearthed links between the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) rebels and the influential Garo Student's Union activists in Meghalaya, an official said.The ... Read more...
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Tynsong is new Meghalaya forests minister
August 4th, 2011 - 6:31 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Aug 4 (IANS) Meghalaya minister Prestone Tynsong, who was re-inducted into the cabinet by Chief Minister Mukul Sangma earlier this week, was Thursday given the charge of forests ... Read more...
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Four rebels surrender in Meghalaya
August 3rd, 2011 - 12:37 am ICT by IANS
Shillong, Aug 2 (IANS) Four rebels of Meghalaya's Liberation Achik Elite Force surrendered before the authorities Tuesday, police said.Zethus N. Marak, Salman R. Marak, Sengchar G. Momin and Sillang G.Momin ... Read more...
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Sacked Meghalaya minister re-inducted
August 2nd, 2011 - 8:55 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Aug 2 (IANS) Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma of the Congress re-inducted Prestone Tynsong in the cabinet Tuesday, two months after he was sacked for anti-party activities.
Governor R.S. ... Read more...
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Tynsong to return to Sangma cabinet
August 1st, 2011 - 10:07 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Aug 1 (IANS) Former Meghalaya minister Prestone Tynsong, sacked two months ago for anti-party activities, will be re-inducted Tuesday in the Mukul Sangma-led cabinet, a Congress leader Monday ... Read more...
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Sonia Gandhi rules out leadership change in Meghalaya (Lead)
July 8th, 2011 - 11:57 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Jul 8 (IANS) Putting an end to the month-long political impasse in Meghalaya, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday asked Mukul Sangma to continue as chief minister, ruling out ... Read more...
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Four Meghalaya legislators demand Sangma’s resignation
July 8th, 2011 - 3:09 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, July 8 (IANS) Demanding Chief Minister Mukul Sangma's resignation, four Meghalaya Congress legislators have threatened to quit, even as party president Sonia Gandhi meets him and and his ... Read more...
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Sangma allocates portfolios to ministers
June 8th, 2011 - 10:12 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, June 8 (IANS) Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Wednesday reshuffled the portfolios of some of his ministers a day after the inducting three new ministers.Sangma has retained some ... Read more...
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Sangma reshuffles cabinet, drops three senior ministers
June 7th, 2011 - 3:56 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, June 7 (IANS) Seeking to put an end to the rebellion in the ruling Congress-led Meghalaya United Alliance government, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Tuesday reshuffled his cabinet by ... Read more...
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Meghalaya’s rebel Congress legislators to meet Sonia
June 5th, 2011 - 8:22 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, June 5 (IANS) Eighteen rebel Meghalaya Congress legislators, including six cabinet ministers, Sunday decided to meet Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi to demand the ouster of ... Read more...
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Elephant electrocuted in Meghalaya
May 27th, 2011 - 12:23 am ICT by IANS
Shillong, May 26 (IANS) A pregnant elephant was electrocuted when it came in contact with a high tension wire in Meghalaya, a forest official said Thursday."The cow elephant, around 18 ... Read more...
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Impossible to detect Congo fever virus-infected animals, says Gujarat Health Minister
February 8th, 2011 - 1:50 pm ICT by ANI
Ahmedabad, Feb 8 (ANI): Expressing concern on the global speculation over the potentially lethal Congo fever disease, Gujarat Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas has said it is humanly impossible to detect animals ... Read more...
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Lethal virus not spreading in Gujarat, says minister
January 20th, 2011 - 8:04 pm ICT by IANS
Gandhinagar, Jan 20 (IANS) The lethal Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is not spreading in Gujarat with all the over 50 samples sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) testing negative ... Read more...
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Immediately isolate new lethal virus patients: Virology institute
January 19th, 2011 - 9:48 pm ICT by IANS
Pune, Jan 19 (IANS) Patients detected with the deadly Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) should be isolated immediately so that the virus is not transmitted to others, a National Institute of Virology ... Read more...
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Mystery killer virus identified in Ahmedabad
January 19th, 2011 - 12:42 am ICT by IANS
Gandhinagar, Jan 18 (IANS) The mystery virus that created a panic of sorts among the medical fraternity in Ahmedabad following the death of a patient, her consulting doctor and nurse, has been ... Read more...
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Fear and hope in Meghalaya’s relief camps
January 13th, 2011 - 5:31 pm ICT by IANS
By Raymond Kharmujai
Mendipathar (Meghalaya), Jan 13 (IANS) Pijosh Momin, 54, a Garo tribal leader, wants to return to his ancestral home in Bherabari village in Assam's Goalapara district. He has been at ... Read more...
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Curfew re-imposed in Meghalaya’s riot-hit areas
January 9th, 2011 - 11:32 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Jan 9 (IANS) Curfew was re-imposed Sunday in the riot-hit areas of Meghalaya's Resubelpara sub-division after fresh cases of arson in Assam's Goalpara district, an official said.
More houses of ... Read more...
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Canada gets tough on terror, hikes jail terms in Toronto plot
December 18th, 2010 - 1:52 pm ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, Dec 18 (IANS) Toughening Canada's much criticized lenient stand on terrorism Friday, a court of appeal here raised sentences of terrorists jailed in the famous Toronto-18 plot. The Al-Qaeda-inspired ... Read more...
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Meghalaya rebel chief surrenders
December 17th, 2010 - 10:22 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Dec 17 (IANS) Dimrim N. Sangma, the chairman of Liberation A'chik Elite Force (LAEF), a separatist group operating in Meghalaya, has surrendered along with arms and ammunition, police said Friday.Four of ... Read more...
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Militant hideout busted in Meghalaya
December 12th, 2010 - 4:40 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Dec 12 (IANS) A hideout of the breakaway faction of the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) was busted Sunday and five rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were recovered, police said."A special operation team ... Read more...
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Meghalaya rebel group’s chief killed in gunfight
December 2nd, 2010 - 8:53 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Dec 2 (IANS) The chief of a separatist group was killed in Meghalaya Thursday in a gun battle with the security forces, a police official said.Liberation Achik Elite Force (LAEF) ... Read more...
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Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi plan suicide attacks across Pakistan on Eid
November 13th, 2010 - 6:05 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Nov 13 (ANI): The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) have planned to carry out suicide attacks in Islamabad and other parts of the country during Eid, according to intelligence ... Read more...
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Two militant groups infighting led to suicide bombing at Darra Adamkhel mosque
November 6th, 2010 - 5:41 pm ICT by ANI
Peshawar, Nov 6 (ANI): An ongoing blood feud between two militant groups was the apparent reason behind the suicide bombing at a mosque in Darra Adamkhel, in which around 70 people ... Read more...
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Garo Hills civic polls postponed after violence
October 29th, 2010 - 1:52 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Oct 29 (IANS) Meghalaya Friday set in abeyance the first-ever municipal elections in its three districts of Garo Hills following violent protests by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) against the polls. ... Read more...
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Shutdown against civic polls turns violent in Meghalaya
October 27th, 2010 - 7:46 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Oct 27 (IANS) A three-day shutdown called by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) protesting the first-ever municipal elections in three districts of Meghalaya's Garo Hills turned violent with trucks and a ... Read more...
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Three held in Delhi on charges of cheating
August 20th, 2010 - 9:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) Three people were arrested in Delhi Friday on charges of cheating people on the pretext of providing them air tickets for abroad, police said.
"The accused persons have ... Read more...
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