Award
The State Water and Sanitation Mission (SWSM) in association with the Public Health Engineering Department will organise Nirmal Gram Puraskar award ceremony at U Soso Tham Auditorium at 10.30am on Friday. Chief Minister, Mukul Sangma will felicitate the 89 numbers of Nirmal Gram Puraskar awardee villages.
Lectures
As part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of NCERT and also to commemorate the International Year of Chemistry, the North East Regional Institute of Education (NERIE)-NCERT, Shillong is organising a program `L ectures on selected themes to commemorate the International Year of Chemistry”Prof Samar Kumar Das will deliver lecture on the theme “From Radium to Nano: The contribution of Chemistry in the last 100 years” at NEC Secretariat Auditorium, Upper Nongrim Hills at 10am on Friday.
Meet
The 17th Annual Meet 2011 of the Synjuk ki Seng Rangbah Catholic, East Khasi Hills District will be held at St Joseph’s Church Mawkhar Parish, Shillong on August 20 and 21.
I-day
The Shillong Bar Association celebrated the 65th Independence Day at its premises on August 15. Justice T Vaiphei unfurled the tri-colour in the presence of members of the Bar, followed by the National Anthem .
Rivalry ends
The rivalry between the President of the Seng Samla Shnong Shilliang Umkhen, JJM Wahlang and contractor, David A Nongrum finally ended after the two compromised on Wednesday.Both Wahlang and Nongrum willingly agreed to withdraw the FIR filed at Rynjah Police Station and assured that there would be be no misunderstanding in the future.