Nobody could have ever imagined that a young man in his forties who had just managed to form a Government with 19 MLAs in 1994 would go on to become India’s longest serving Chief Minister. There were reasons behind our doubts. Let me enumerate some of the reasons why he had very little chance to really plant his feet as Sikkim’s strongest political leader. 

HJ : Congratulations on becoming the youngest Chief Minister of Meghalaya? What are your priorities and how will you take things ahead?

CS : First it is very important to ensure that we start to improve the overall work culture and governance. Delivering accountability, basic administrative work culture needs to improve. I am not saying it’s bad but I just feel it can improve. First I will ensure that we try to inculcate positive attitude and also try to ensure that whatever steps we can take from our side to get governance, efficiency and have suffered specially students. I am not saying we can change everything in one day or one year because it’s a very complicated issue but our effort will be there and a lot of attention will be paid to education. Other social sectors like health are very critical to us.

The growth of blended culture in this region grown particularly in the areas of language, art and religion is due to the continuous process of assimilation of various races, castes and creeds of local people, invaders and migrated people. Dhubri District is bounded both by inter-state and International border West Bengal and Bangladesh in the west, Goalpara and Bogaigoan district of Assam, Garo Hills district of Meghalaya in the east, Kokrajhar district in the North, Bangladesh and state of Meghalaya in the south. The name Dhubri believed to have been derived from Netai Dhubuni , a washer woman mentioned in Padma Puran and Kalika Puran. It is known from the tale of Chand Sadagar, where the main character of the legendary folk tales called Netai used to wash the clothes of God and Goddess of heaven on the bank of the river Brahmaputra.

 1^st...Arding Nongkhlaw Football Tournament concluded

To commemorate the 15^th Death Anniversary of Late Bah Arding Nongkhlaw, the Open to all football tournament was organised by the children and grand children of Lt.Bah Arding Nongkhlaw, who was the Ex Headman of Lumpymgad Locality. The 1^st Arding Nongkhlaw football tournament saw the participants of 25 teams from in  and around the city.

The final  tournament was between Madanryting and Nongthymmai in which Madanryting emerged as victorious by 3 to 2. The match was witnessed by the residents of Lumpyngad Locality and the adjacent locality and Nongthymmai MDC and Executive Members of the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) Mr. Latiplang Kharkongor.

The games began with Madanryting pressuring the defence of Nongthymmai through attacking football and opened their account with a controversial goal by Pynioh in the 12 minutes. Wankyrshan double the lead in the 29 minutes with a stunning shot from outside after the opponent stopper sloppy pass was intercept. They continued to dominate the game and their result came in  38^th minutes with a goal from Hebroman. Until the first half, the game looked one-sided with Madanryting having more possession.

The secondly half saw Nongthymmai eagerly trying to open their score sheets by maintaining their ball possession and attacking their opponent defences. They got their first goal in the 64 minutes by Banskhemlang. Banskhem doubled his score sheets in  78 minutes by chipping through the rushing opponents’ stopper.