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       The 19 officers including the APS Pallavi Sharma, the daughter of the BJP MP from Tezpur, Ram Prasad  Sharma, and Monika Teronpi, the niece of the BJP legislator Joyram Enleng,  who were selected in the said examination, when arrested Rakesh Paul its chairman and two other members, Samedur Rahman and  Basant Kumar Doley are already behind bars. With their arrests, however, the total number of officials who have so far been arrested in connection with the cash-for-job-scam has gone up to 65.

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FISH THE PROBLEM

The people of Shillong, the neighborhood, are still facing the acute problem of no fish curry. The State Government which had banned import of fish because of the detection of Formalin for fifteen days, had extended another fifteen days for another reason. That the absence of fish in the market would encourage, fishing within the state, to benefit fishermen and increase production. Whether fifteen days is enough to meet the requirement of eighty thousand metric tons of fish in year, required. It is something beyond mathematical calculation and imagination.

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A SIMULTANEOUS ELECTION 

The Election Commission  had complied  with  the  wishes  of  the  political  parties,  the  United  Democratic  Party  (UDP)  and  the  Congress  to  hold  elections  to  two  vacant  seats  of  South  Tura  in  Garo  Hills and Ranikor in  the  Khasi  Hills,  to  the  Meghalaya  Legislative  Assembly  on  August  23.  The  logic  being  that the  elections  on  different  dates  may  affect  the  voting  pattern  trend,  which  would  benefit  specially  the  ruling   Meghalaya   Democratic  Alliance.   South Tura has attracted attention, as Chief Minister Conrad K.  Sangma,  should  get  himself  formally  elected  as  member  of  the  State  legislature.  His sister, Agatha K. Sangma  being  the  sitting  member,  had  resigned  to  give  way  to  her  brother,  while  she  would  in  turn  contest  the  Tura  Lok  Sabha  in  place  of  her  brother.   The  ruling  MDA   alliance  partner,  the  united  Democratic Party  (UDP),  had  pledged support  to  NPP Conrad  Sangma,  although  UDP  local  unit  had  voiced  setting  up  its  own  candidate  On   the  other  hand  the  Congress  is propping up Charlotte W. Momin, former Principal of Tura Government Public School.           

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Usually, we don’t ask a lady how old is she as it embarrasses her. Why? Most ladies, as the saying goes, attempts to hide their actual age. Hence, dislikes being asked how old she is? But one among the Seven Sisters of North Eastern India, Meghalaya, would proudly say she is 4,200 years old. But why should such an old lady among the Seven Sisters feels so proud about her age? This is due to the reason that all earthlings officially are now living in The Meghalayan Age: in her age, technically. Interesting, is not it? Equally interesting is the fact that The Meghalayan Age, among other things, is also known as the “Age of Destruction” be it the collapse of Indus Valley Civilization or the devastation of Pompeii due to eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius and Herculaneum in 79 A.D.