Eventful incidents in the region

patricia mukhimMeghalaya is in the news after a private university literally manufactured certificates ranging from a degree to a Masters to a PhD and dished these out to students and scholars on payment. The sordid affairs of Chandra Mohan Jha ...

patricia mukhimTHE more we protest about rape, the worse it gets. After the 16 December incident in Delhi last year, there have been protests galore. Rage has poured out into the streets of the capital and then we had the mother of all protests that ...

patricia mukhimIN recent times, Kaziranga National Park has been in the news for the spurt in rhino deaths. This year alone, 17 of these animals have been killed for their horns. The famed one-horned rhino that has put Assam on the world heritage ...

patricia mukhimTHE Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act dates back to 1958 when it was passed by the Indian Parliament to quell the Naga rebellion in a so-called disturbed area. It was later extended to Assam, Manipur, Tripura, parts of Meghalaya and ...

patricia mukhimIT is easy to parachute into a Maoist-affected area or a turbulent North-east or even a belligerent Kashmir and write paeans about the rights of people to take up arms against the state because: (a) the state has failed to accommodate ...

patricia mukhimWHILE the country stood united against the gang rape of Nirbhaya and the brutality that followed the act, in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills district of Williamnagar another adolescent faced a similar fate just three days before the 16 ...

patricia mukhimVISITING the relief camps where hundreds of families displaced in the July-August 2012 Kokrajhar violence in Assam continue to live in deprived conditions will tug at the heart strings of the most hardened journalist. It's a sad state ...

patricia mukhim THE slogan, One person, one vote, sounds and looks good on a hoarding. And these hoardings dot the harsh landscape as one makes one's way to Kohima, capital of Nagaland. The reality is that the Election Commission of India's ...

Meghalaya has just elected its first woman Rajya Sabha member. Last month, it set a record in the Northeast by electing the states first woman home minister and first woman chief justice. It made history by electing four women in the state assembly ...