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Far from the madding crowds of the world and nestled in the lap of nature, the Seven Sisters of North Eastern India currently are under the sinister shadow of cross-border smuggling carried out by the Muslim smugglers of Bangladesh and mainly ethnic Chin people of Myanmar. These dangerous smugglers are getting emboldened day by day. They not only are carrying out smuggling operations most daringly in Meghalaya, Mizoram, Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Nagaland but also killing local people and members of the Border Security Force and other paramilitary outfits guarding the long, porous borders that touch lawless Bangladesh and Myanmar.

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FREE MEDICINES WITH NO STOCK

The State Government has announced for providing free medicines in all the Government Hospitals and Health Centres across the state. In the face of this announcement, the state has faced many medicinal anomalies when most of the medicines including life saving drugs were not available, as they are generally out of stock. Patients have to go out and search in the pharmacies to buy medicines from outside. Therefore the new drug policy of free medicines within the hospitals and health centres can be only wishful thinking, if implementation of such a policy is not taken seriously.

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THE NRC FALL OUT 

The  Khasi  Students  Union  has  taken  upon  themselves  to  deport  1,500  people  who  were  described  as  immigrants  following  the  draft  publication  of  the  National  Register  of  Citizens  (NRC) of  neighbouring  Assam.  The   students  body,  had  set  up    check  gates  at  three  entry  points,  along  the  Guwahati-Shillong  National  Highway  in  Khanapara  20^th  mile,  also  at  Athiabari  in  the  Shillong  Nongstoin  highway  and  the  third  at Ratachera along  the  Shillong-Silchar  National  Highway.  At  the  same  time  the  student  body  had  demanded  the  State Government  in  taking  similar  steps  of maintaining  a  Register  of  Citizens  in   the  state. Taken by  surprise  of  the  action   by  the  Khasi Union  Students  body,  the  state  government  has  started  highway  inspection of  any  fall  out  of  immigrants  from  Assam  entering  Meghalaya. 

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The talk of the town from World Cup and now switching over to fish, the most popular commodity among all the communities in the capital city, also in the State and the entire region of North East India. Angling is one of the most popular sports in the rivulets, streams and river. But suddenly the word had spread in the fish markets, that ‘Formalin’ essentially being a preservative, yet can upset the health of the population has been laced on fish bodies, especially being imported from Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal.

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HAVING A BIG HEART

It is a high stake for Conrad K. Sangma to win the South Tura Assembly election, in order that he retains the reins of power in the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance Government and also the state as a whole. The Chief Minister had taken the wheel of administration, since the MDA had come into power with the alliance of regional parties such as the United Democratic Party (UDP). No doubt the UDP had pledge that it would give full support that Conrad K. Sangma gets formally elected as member of the state legislative assembly. Conrad, on the other hand, has expressed his desire and commitment to work, through at the same time confessing, that the government though short of big brains, yet it has a big heart in going all out to see that people benefit from sincere work, through the various schemes and projects, which should bear fruits of utility.

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OFF LIMITS IN URANIUM ZONE

The  Regional  Director of  the  Atomic  Minerals  Division has  said  that    personnel  of  the  Division were  engaged  in  only collecting  uranium  samples  in  the  Wahkaji  and  Mawthabah  areas  of  Khasi Hills, The  Division  had  also  stated  that  it  had  got  clearance  from  the  Rangbah  Shnong,  the  headman  of  the   villages  in  the  area.  The  Deputy  Chief  minister  of  Meghalaya,  Prestone  Tynsong  on  the  other  hand,  has  said,  the  government  had  taken  a  decision  to  stop  all  activities  relating  to  the  exploration  of  uranium  deposits  in  the  area.  Meanwhile  a  team  of  the  Khasi  Hills  District  Council  visited  the  area,  to  verify  whether activities  of  exploration  of Uranium is being  carrying on,  which  is  considered  to  be  illegal without  the  approval  of  the  District  Council

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Forming one of the main regions of the beautiful state of Meghalaya, one of India’s most popular tourist attractions, the Jaintia Hills are famous for the way they have held on to their tribal culture even today, in an age of modernism. One of the most important features of the tribal charm of Meghalaya is the Behdienkhlam Festival, (June-July) which remains as one of the most popular festivals of the region.

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HOP STEP AND JUMP

The Khasi lineage bill of the District Council is seen to be not running smooth, as it is jumping from one point to another, also stepping into uncertain territory and jumping into a conclusion, that the District Council itself, had recalled the bill, because of the many loopholes and contradictions. In the first place the bill was sent to the Governor for approval, without consulting legal experts especially of the lapses and contradictions, which goes against the spirit of the bill itself and its attempts to override, well established traditional laws and usages. These lapses had therefore prompted the District Council to hurriedly recall the bill from the Governor.