Surrendered HNLC arrested in Meghalaya

Following is the text of the opening statement of Union Home Minister Shri Sushilkumar Shinde at the monthly press conference of Ministry of Home Affairs at New Delhi today.:- During April 10-12, 2013, I led an Indian delegation to Russia and met ...

Shillong, April 17: The Meghalaya government today promised to strengthen the forensic science laboratory as crimes against women and children, especially rape, have witnessed a steady increase. Home minister Roshan Warjri, while replying to a cut ...

The problem with deadlines is that one has to write this article a day before the election. Voters of Meghalaya and Nagaland vote for their next government and legislatures on February 23. In Meghalaya, the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC), a ...

Shillong: Voting for the Meghalaya assembly elections began Saturday amidst tight security, an official said. Men and women in large numbers queued up in front of polling stations well before voting opened at 7 a.m. in the entire state. Polling ends at 4 ...

Meghalaya witnessed a record 88 per cent and Nagaland 83.27 per cent polling in the Assembly elections that were held on Saturday. Counting is slated for February 28 for the two states besides Tripura. Barring a few minor incidents in Nagaland, elections to ...

Meghalaya's electorate Saturday defied a shutdown call to enthusiastically turn up in large numbers at polling booths in the assembly elections while Nagaland too saw brisk ballotting. Assembly by-polls were also held for one constituency in Punjab and three ...

Conrad Sangma, 35, Leader of the Opposition in the outgoing Meghalaya assembly that goes to the polls on Saturday, explains to Rediff.com's Archana Masih the need for a fresh approach to solve the problem of insurgency in the state, the reasons for the lack of women in state politics and the need for cultural exchanges between the North-East and the rest of India. In a state when some extremist group or the other calls for a bandh on Republic Day and Independence Day, it is hardly surprising ...

Shillong, Feb. 21: As the clock struck 4pm, campaigning across Meghalaya for Saturday's polls came to a grinding halt with the state government promising the people "free, fair and peaceful polls". The election will be conducted in the face of the 36-hour ...

SHILLONG, Feb 21 - The border outposts along the Indo-Bangla border in Khasi-Jaintia Hills sector has been put on high alert following the 36-hour bandh called by the banned Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) from February 22 to boycott the ...