Meghalaya home minister R.G. Lyngdoh on Wednesday said over 350 tribal families belonging to Pnar community have fled from North Cachar Hills because of threats from Hmar militants and have taken refuge in some villages in Jaintia hills. Pnars are originally residents of Jaintia hills district. eplying to a call attention motion by NCP legislator Ardhendhu Chaudhuri, Lyngdoh said the government had not been able to rehabilitate the refugees who had been accommodated by villagers of Mulamiliang. Assam Central University will introduce two new short-duration courses exclusively for students from overseas next year. University vice-chancellor Subhash Chandra Saha said the six-month courses would be on tribal art and culture and bio-diversity. Rajya Sabha member from Assam and former Union finance minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated a scout training centre building at Samata Pathar under Sonapur revenue circle in Kamrup district on Wednesday. The construction of the building, at Rs 10 lakh, was undertaken under Singh’s MP local area development fund. The Mizoram secretariat has hit the panic button after repeated requests from the Shillong-based accountant-general’s office to recover loans of more than Rs 3 crore given to legislators over a period of 13 years. A flock of locusts arrived in some plantations in both the northern and the eastern outskirts of Aizawl on Tuesday. Equipped agriculture department officials visited the affected areas on Wednesday. They prepared a tentative report saying these locusts may not be dangerous to farmers.The Assam Association of Deaf on Wednesday announced agitation programmes from Saturday seeking a permanent solution to the problem of artificial floods in Guwahati. The 81st birth anniversary of poet Amulya Baruah was commemorated recently through a daylong programme jointly organised by Call of the Brahmaputra, a socio-literary and cultural body of Maligaon, Guwahati, and the Jorhat Amulya Baruah Celebration Committee.
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To Meghalaya health department for anomalies in purchase of X-ray machines as pointed out in CAG reports
