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Staccato sounds of gunfire reverberating till recently in the still hills of Meghalaya practically have fallen silent. If the decadal trend of militancy is followed with 2008 acting as the base-year, we find the overall security situation in Meghalaya in particular and the North Eastern India as a whole improved substantially.

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Their heart swells with happiness after struggle, strife and sweat flash victory. It is a proud feeling to stand on the podium to receive a medal for the country. The mission has finally been accomplished after the fall of first bit of national anthem followed by receiving a thundering ovation from the crowd. And Indian sports brought stupendous success at XXI Commonwealth Games 2018 that has brought cheers to 1.25 billion people. With 66 medals (26 Gold 20 Silver 20 Bronze) our nation reached the third position behind Australia and England in the medal table. The success story has begun with Shooting (7 4 5), Wrestling (5 3 4), Weightlifting (5 2 2), Boxing (3 3 3), Table Tennis (3 2 3), Badminton (2 3 1), Athletics (1 1 1), Squash (0 2 0) and Para Power Lifting (0 0 1). At CWG Glasgow 2014 Scotland, our rank was 5th with a total of 64 medals (15 30 19). Surprisingly at CWG New Delhi 2010, we reached the second position with 101 medals (38 27 36).

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UNPRECEDENTED VIOLENCE 

There was a lukewarm  campaign for  the  Williamnagar  election  of  the  Congress, as  Deborah  felt  that  she  was  sidelined  by her  own  party  workers,  which  led  to  her  defeat.   This  time    however  the    story  is  defferent  for  the  Ampati  elections,  as  Congress  workers trooped  into  Ampati, even  chief  of the  all  Mahila  Congress-Sushmita  Dev. She even pin pointed that Conrad K. Sangma, the Chief Minister  was scared to contest from Ampati. Yet  there  was  signs  in  Ampati,  that  the  Congress  was involed  in  violent activities  against NPP  workers,  which  would   have  escalated  if  not  for the  timely intervention  of  the  police. It  is common   that  most  violent  action  is  caused  by a sense  of  desperation of  one  group  against another.  Therefore  the  violence does  not  augur  well  to  those  who  had  started  the  fight, specially that  the assembly  elections in  the  state  was  by  and   large  peaceful.   

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MC Mary Kom, Sanjita Khumukcham and Saikhom Mirabai Chanuare the three Manipuris who struck gold for India in the recently concluded Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast Australia. In fact weightlifter, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu opened India’s medal account with gold on the first day itself with her record-smashing performance in her 48kg weight category. The 23-year-old weightlifter pulled off a clean lift in the clean and jerk, lifting 80kg, 84kg, and 86kg in all her three attempts.