2014 will be remembered as the year of turmoil where series of violence, killings of the innocents by Garo millitants shattered peace and tranquility in the State. The year will also be remembered as the year of political stability unlike the past though it was marked by series of violence and agitations. The law and order situation in Garo Hills worsened compared to the past years. Killing of people in the name of witch hunt and death of coal labourers in coal mines in the absence of safety measures marred the year.
January
4. Tura cop Bankerlang Kharshohnoh placed under suspension and two probationary police officers Ronald Nongrum and Sylvester Chyne face termination of service over attempted rape of minor.
– In a bizarre incident a woman, Buris Lyngdoh was tied behind a truck and dragged on the road at Madanryting on the night of January 3.
9. Government extends term of three district councils; Garo Hills Autonomous district Council (GHADC) by six months and the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) and the Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council (JHADC) by another fifteen days.
– Serial molester David Lyngdoh out on bail, repeats crime
10. ST editor Patricia Mukhim appointed as IIMC governing board member
– GAD rules embarrass CS (Allotment of official bungalow to Chief Secretary violates existing rules)
– Mukul engages in verbal duel with Gujarat CM Modi
– UGC seeks info on status of CMJ University (Commission asks Governor, State to decide on validity of degrees awarded by varsity)
11. Governor KK Paul approves delimitation Bills
– MPDA slapped on 2 KSU leaders Johny Sohkhlet and Readyon Nongrum for their alleged involvement in the Bishnupur arson case resulting in the death of a tea stall owner Bisheshwar Das.
– ANVC-B spills the beans (The militant outfit on January 10 alleged that its chairman Rimpu Marak had a role on retaining Dr Mukul Sangma as the Chief Minister when there was a tussle for power during the last term)
12. Four ANVC-B ultras gunned down by police commandos in a major gun battle that took place between Dobasipara and Darenggre village on the outskirts of Tura town late on the night of January 11.
– ANVC-B divided over Mukul-Rimpus nexus
15. GNLA can join peace process: CM (All peace settlements to be under ambit of ANVC: CM)
16. Deadlock ends after four months (Pro ILP pressure groups to study 52 laws on influx, agitation suspended)
17. Mukul the chairman of all militants outfits: Purno
– Retired IAS officer Lutherine R Sangma appointed chairperson of Meghalaya Police Service Commission (MPSC)
18. Raj Bhavan has negligible indigenous staff: RTI finding
20. Mukul-millitant ‘nexus’ allegation turns murkier (ANVC (B) C-in-C claims nexus between CM and ANVC chief Dilash)
22. UDP moves president, seeks CM’s removal
24. AAP makes debut in States
– State police introduces people contact programme
25. GNLA openly challenges cops in West Khasi Hills ( As many as 30 GNLA cadres carrying sophisticated weapons allegedly threw a challenge at the police asking them to take on the militants while providing the police with their location in West Khasi Hills)
28. State Cabinet clears formation of Multi-task force
29. 246 tainted teachers to lose jobs (Jowai-92, Shillong-53, Dadengre-43, Amlarem-37, Tura-21)
– Governments takes initiative to shun red beacons
– Village Secy Deibor Suchiang of Ladrymbai Dongwah face rape slur, pays Rs 5 lakh to victim
30. Ronnie twist to LS ticket race
– MCS officer JD Sangma gets show cause notice (Job scam)
February
1. MLA’s brother abducted (GNLA militants prime suspect in kidnapping of Samuel Sangma’s younger brother: Police)
– Congress candidate Wansuk Syiem re-elected to the Upper House
– 15 shops gutted in Bishnupur market
2. Padmashree Silverine Swer passes away at 103
– Garo ultra beaten to death in extortion bid
4. Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama addresses Martin Luther Christian University (MLCU) convocation
– GNLA demands Rs 20 Lakh (No traced yet of kidnapped MLA’s borther)
– MDP chief Martle Mukhim quits party to contest race on HSPDP ticket
5. Garo rebels killed three kidnapped victims (Alphabet ‘B’ used by executioners during killers)
6. GNLA released Baghmara MLA Samuel Sangma’s brother Naga Sangma
– Court solace for Langpih victims’ kin (Assam government directed to pay Rs 2 lakh each to 4 widow): The Division Bench of High Court of Meghalaya has directed Assam government to pay a compensation of Rs 4 lakh each to the four widow of Langpih villagers who were killed in firing by Assam police on May 2010.
7. HWT Syiem former Meghalaya Chief Secretary include in the six-member committee to examine racial attacks on NE people
8. GH cops stumble upon new outfit’s formation (ANVC (B) and GNLA-F militants working on tandem)
– Nokrek Carnage: Police arrest lone survivor (The bodies of the three civilians, including an MeECL contractor, who were executed in cold blood by Garo militants inside the Nokrek national park have been handed over to the respective families by police following post-mortem examination of the bodies on February 7.
10. Massive scam unearthed in JHADC (JHADC CEM MB Rymbai doles out huge benefits to family members, supporters) (CEM’s brothers, mother, wife listed as beneficiaries, ghost names listed in list, beneficiaries named in list deny receiving any fund from JHADC, several CEM supporters receive undue benefits)
11. JHADC CEM faces another fund misuse charge (RTI revelation indicates MB Rymbai’s role in Rs 1.15 crore scam)
12. State gets 4 Cos of additional forces (Operation in Garo Hills)
13. AICC unhappy with Ronnie’s entry (Choice of candidate for Tura narrows to two)
14. Decades old bombs found in Umkiang
– One more case registered against JHADC CEM
15. Another beneficiary lodged complaint against JHADC CEM (Police seize official documents)
16. Garo NGOs serve 20-day deadline to Mukul Government (Extra-judicial killing of 60-yr-old labourer Washington Marak)
17. Meghalaya government nod to killing Hydel project (Stiff opposition to project)
18. UDP presents ‘charge sheets’ against MUA-II
25. NCP candidate arrested in Jowai (Jowai police on February 24 night arrested NCP candidate for Nartiang-Umladang constituency Moina Sing Phyllut for instigating a mob to damage the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and vandalize a polling station)
– Over 70% voting recorded in the elections to the KHADC and JHADC (for 29 seats each) held on February 24
27. Brave woman takes on GNLA, gets life threat (Police fail to respond to woman’s plea)
28. Lion roars, Congress wounded (Party position: KHADC:- Total-29, Congress-10, HSPDP-7, UDP-6, KHNAM-4, NCP-1) (JHADC:- Total- 29, Congress-29, Independents-9, UDP-6)
– Violet scripts history by defeating sitting MDC and former JHADC chief Hembertus Nongtdu by a margin of 43 votes from Rymbai Khliehriat constituency
March
1. Government sacks 246 teachers (Education scam)
4. Another job scam hits the state (Even gold medal winners denied appointment)
7. Teilinia creates history: HSPDP Mylliem MDC Teilinia Thangkhiew has scripted history by being the first woman to be elected as the Chairperson of the KHADC on February 6
9. Ardent Basaiawmoit become KHADC CEM unopposed
10. BSF presents BGB with list of 66 terror camps in Bangladesh
11. Purno throws himself into poll fray (Agatha quits NCP joins NPP)
12. GNLA kidnaps GSU leader (Rs 1 crore demanded as ransom)
18. Assam encroaches Khanduli again (Villagers uproot electric poles erected by Assam power board)
19. House says no to Garoland resolution
20. CM tables deficit dudget (House passes over 2,984 crore vote-on-account)
22. Man kills wife, dumps body in coal mine in Jaintia Hills
27. Paid news: Paul under scanner (Paul Lyngdoh asked to include Rs 50,000 as election expense)
29. ANVC peace pact gets Centre’s seal
30. Panel slaps notices on petitioners (New twist to Mukul’s ST status issue)
April
2. High Court puts on hold job appointments (Job scam in Agriculture department)
3. Spate of violence rocks Garo Hills (Coal managers abducted, cadre killed, grenade lobbed)
4. Bakshi gives clean chit to CM (Poll code violation slur)
– Chopper gives a miss to Mukul
5. HNLC calls bandh on poll day (Ban outfit demands ILP, plebiscite for Hynniewtrep)
9. State goes to poll amid tight security on April 9 (Over 15 lakh voters to decide fate of 10 candidates)
11. State records 69.03pc voting
12. HC bans construction beyond four floors (Major embarrassment for Meghalaya Urban Development Authority)
14. Centre says no to Garoland talk
– Malai Mawdatbaki residents act to save land from encroachment (Dorbar Shnong suspects illegal boundary pillars erected with knowledge of Hima Mylliem)
15. Ri Bhoi eagerly awaits for ‘Niang World Cup’
16. Meghalaya voters forced to exercise franchise in Assam (Travails of Khasi villagers in disputed Block-II areas)
– Three GNLA cadres nabbed in Shillong
– Mob destroys four houses in Wahswat village ((Dispute over community land under Raid Tynring)
17. Power tariff hiked in State by 13 pc
– HNLC issues quit notice to Nepali residents
– Khasi film ‘Ri’ bags National Film Award
20. New rebel outfit, United North East Liberation Army (UNELA) surface in West Khasi Hills
21. HC dismisses petition against Lafarge project
– Six GNLA cadres arrested in Assam arms recovered
23. State police arrest CMJ VC: CM Jha Vice Chancellor CMJ University arrested on April 22 in the Madhubani district of Bihar by Meghalaya police with assistance from Bihar police
– CSWO (I) leader Christable Wanniang and others remanded to judicial custody on April 22 by the Ri Bhoi District Session Court.
24. MeECL reaches critical point; consumers feel cheated (State reeling under unprecedented power cuts)
– 4 minor dead in accidental fire in Ri Bhoi
– Crorepati Jha has six court cases pending in Meghalaya and Bihar
– From insurgency to ‘devil worship’, police in Garo Hills have their hands full
25. DC survives militant fire: DC South Garo Hills C P Gothmare had providential escape when militants open fire on his official vehicle on April 24)
26. Jha suffers dissolution blow (CMJ given degrees become invalid)
27. CM Mukul Sangma’s convoy kills one near Sumer
28. MSERC rejects MeECL’s ‘voucher’ of Rs 1286 cr (State Electricity Regulatory Commission to await audit report on Myntdu-Leshka hydro-electric project)
– Pioneer Garo Hills missionary E V George breathes his last at 86
30. Pro ILP groups make presentation to Meghalaya Govt, CM happy (Focus now shifts to spot entry verification)
May
1. Power crisis: Scene shifts to Delhi (NEEPCO wants ‘handsome payment’ not Rs 30 crore offered by State Government)
2. Embezzlement of MGNREGS fund comes to light
3. NEEPCO lays down conditions for power supply resumption (Corporation wants down payment of Rs 30 crore, more payment within 3 months)
– Government announce corpus fund to rescue MeECL
– State forms panel to respond to NGT ban
– Several houses gutted in Malki fire that broke out on May 2
4. HANM president Lamphrang Kharbani arrested by police for alleged links with the ban rebel outfit HNLC.
– Death, damage to property in cyclone-hit Ri-Bhoi (woman loses life and severe damage to property in the cyclone that hit Ri-Bhoi district on May 2 and 3.
6. Clean sweep in Science top ten merit list, eight positions in Commerce stream by St Anthony’s students
7. Government nod to ANVC –B camps in West Khasi Hills, North Garo Hills
9. Government defy HNLC picketing call
10. SC stays scrutiny panel hearing (ST status of chief minister Mukul Sangma)
– Nongmynsong housing project hangs in balance
11. Magisterial probe ordered into Tura girls’ assault case (CSWO leader among five self styled vigilantes held for abducting, confining and torturing 12 girls)
12. Satanic worshipper under police net in Tura
13. Government orders high-level inquiry (Torture of 12 girls in Tura)
14. Ban imposed on rat hole mining in West Jaintia Hills
– Activists’ partner, son among five held for involvement in torture of Tura girls
– 45-day ‘election-holiday’ for Tura school
15. Rat hole mining: Admin gets tough (Transportation of coal from mining site stopped), (Coal laden trucks stay off the road)
17. Purno set for 10th innings in Lok Sabha: Purno defeated Congress candidate Daryl William Cheran Momin by 39, 716 votes
– Former Union Minister and Congress leader Vincent Pala defeated his nearest rival and independent candidate Basaiawmoit by 40, 379 votes.
– NOTA: The innovative none of the above (NOTA) introduced by the Election Commission of India gains currency in Meghalaya as thousands of voters opted for the innovative option.
18. Triplets delivered inside 108 ambulance: Purnima Koch a resident of Silbaripara under Gasuapara Block, South Garo Hills delivered triplets inside the 108 ambulance on the night of May 16.
20. RKM, Auxilium Girls’ top SSLC, HSSLC Arts list
– SC turns down plea against coal mine ban
21. Torture-accused dies in judicial custody: A male accused in the high profile case of illegal detention and torture of 12 young girls died on May 20 while under judicial custody after being brought from the Tura district jail to the Civil Hospital for medical treatment
– Five Garo rebels shot dead in encounter: Five hardcore militants of the Norrok X Momin-led United A’chik Liberation Army (UALA) shot dead by police commando in a fierce gun battle at Chiokgre village near Williamnagar on May 20.
27. Mob kills brother, sister; 2 more hurt (Family attacked on suspicion of practicing witchcraft at Umkyrpong village under Sumer Patorship on the evening of May 25)
29. Another custodial death in GH: Suspected over ground worker of the banned GNLA identified as Witson M Sangma passed away inside the Chokpot police station on the night of May 27
30. Curfew in Chokpot as protest turns into fiery battle (Governments orders magisterial probe into 2nd custodial death)
– KHADC seals 37 Iewduh shops
31. Cop’s brother murdered in suspected revenge killing: Unidentified men lure younger brother of policeman to an isolated place of Tura and murder him in cold blood on May 28.
June
1. Garo Hills situation: Purno seeks Modi’s intervention (NPP knocks on NHRC door over rights violations in Meghalaya)
2. Village elder killed, trader abducted (Minority groups face increasing attacks from Garo militants)
3. Private clinic inside Government health centre: The FKJGP Mawsynram unit has detected a private clinic functioning inside the community Health Centre (CHC) in Mawsynram, run by a government doctor
4. Suspected GNLA kidnaps 2 government staff while they were travelling from Phulbari region to Tura on June 3
– It’s official: Seating capacity in cabs ‘five in all’: East Khasi Hills District Transport officer
5. Chokpot horror: GNLA killed woman for resisting rape bid (Josbina M Sangma (35) had her head blown off by suspected GNLA militants in the presence of her children after she resisted their attempt to molest and rape her in remote Chokpot region on June 3) GNLA claims responsibility, terms it revenge
– Mukul rules out Army ops in Garo Hills
– Centre rushes 1000 para-military personnel (Purno takes up Garo Hills situation with PM)
– Cases of child selling comes to fore (NGT ban on coal mining)
– State in shock over Taliban act of GNLA
– High Court grants bail to CM JHA
6. Gun battle near Sohan’s camp, ultras escape
7. Motion seeking President’s Rule defeated in Assembly
– Champion uses mobile with internet connection in jail
8. Grenade hurled at Tura PS, no casualty
– Garo rebel demand 27 crore from construction company
9 . Two HNLC men nabbed in Kolkata
10. Tribunal ban on rat-hole mining stays; sale of extracted coal allowed (NGT refuses, HNLC opposes)
June 11
– Garo rebels kill leader, decamp with booty (Bodies of ANLA leader, his PSO recovered in GH)
– Construction of DC office installed (Rat-hole mine effect)
13. Mukul calls Purno a ‘Bangladeshi’ in Assembly (James demand apology from Mukul)
15. UALA chairman Novembirth Marak in police net: (Ailing Garo rebel outfit leader nabbed from Guwahati Hospital)
16. Mukul gains strength (Independent MLAs Samuel, Michael join Congress as associate members)
– NGT panels inspect coal depot in state
17. Eight passengers killed, scores injured (Baghmara-bound bus plunges into gorge)
– Bank manager Arwind Kumar of SBI’s Ampati branch abducted by militants on June 16)
– Top GNLA leader held in Bengaluru: Vice chairman of the militant group Rapius Ch Sangma arrested from the heart of Bengaluru city in Karnataka where he has taken shelter with his family.)
19. Garo Hills cops rescue banker (Kidnappers flee to jungle after gunfight, Rs 50 lakh demanded as ransom)
– Rs 80 lakh wasted on drug testing laboratory (CAG report on health department)
June 22
– Garo Hills MLAs forced to change mobile numbers
24. GNLA plan to attack with IEDs disrupted by police (Militant commander escapes, girlfriend in police net, one ultra shot dead)
– UALA militant escape from Tura hospital (Seven cops suspended)
25. DGP Hanamman against ‘disturbed area’ tag to Garo Hills
– Four traders abducted in Garo Hills
– KHADC opp demands cancellation of trading license of Meghalaya Agrovet Private Limited
– ULFA cadre on GNLA deputation shot dead (Police rescue kidnapped traders after gun battle
28. P Barkos Oflyne Warjri appointed new Chief Secretary of Meghalaya.
– Khasi officer Evans Rynjah Solomon appointed Deputy C&AG
– Meghalaya joins other states in opposing land acquisition act
– Congress MDC Antonio War against selling of Raid land to (Contd on P-9)
(Contd from P-8) the state Government in the New Shillong township
29. Shillong Municipal Board begins demolition of shops at Polo market (Construction of new market complex back on track)
June 30
– Political appointments burden on state’s coffers (Mukul-led government appoints 76 politicos in corporations, PSUs)
July
1. 11 unlicensed shops locked in Police bazaar
9. South Garo Hills without power for 27 hours (Incessant rains, lightning cause power outage)
– Meghalaya gets first train to Mendipathar
10. Pala moves two bills on coal mining
12. Police raid Sohan’s new camp, cadre shot dead
17. Runaway CID sleuth Anjan Chakraborty arrested by state police
18. Sohra marathon hits the ground running
– KSU split, HYC constituted: The over-three-decades-old Khasi Students’ Union On July 17 suffered a split after a section the KSU leaders of Mawlai circle detached themselves from the union and announced the formation of a new organization Hynniewtrep Youth Council
– Satan worshippers desecrate Chapel at Golf Links
21. Another job scam in the state: Soil and Water Conservation dept conducts interview without official notification
– Garo outfit releases abducted Assam driver: Family pays Rs 1.5 lakh ransom
July 22
24. NGOs, Opp stall tabling of Customary Law Bill (Bid to give recognition to person born of non-Garo parent
25. Ardent summons Syiem of Mylliem (Pathetic condition of Iewduh)
26. IED blast claims 2 cops (GNLA militants ambush police party near Tura)
– KHADC staff face mob wrath (Five hurt; businessman, son arrested)
27. Cop attacked, friend missing (IED blast toll rises to 3, Government announces s 1 lakh each for families)
31. Jowai gets blood bank
August
1. CM Mukul seeks Modi’s intervention on coal mining
– Gunmen released Tennybirth Ch Momin, son of a police officer abducted by gunmen from his home in Mendipathar.
– Cabinet stretches GHADC term by another six months
3. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) sanctions Rs 18 crore for repair of Jowai-Malidor stretch of National Highway 44.
5. Over Rs 5 crore spent on non-existent school toilets (Total Sanitation Campaign scam in Garo Hills)
– Japanese encephalitis: Seven test positive in State
6. Bank official kidnapped in Garo Hills (Involvement of ASAK militants suspected)
August 7
– GNLA rebel escapes from hospital
– (MRDS returns Rs 40 lakhs of diverted fund: Meghalaya Rural Development Society (MRDS) that was tasked with construction of 691 school toilets in Garo Hills allegedly diverted several lakhs of Rupees for other works while a Tura supplier of materials for the project received more than Rs 1 crore despite supplying only a limited number of items for the works.
– Two HNLC extortionist in police net
August 9
– Ex-KSU leader murdered (Former KSU organizing secretary Richard Jana Nongbet (45) of Nongshilliang was found murdered inside the rented house at Pdeng Shnong near Lumshyiap Community Hall on August 7)
– Two GNLA rebels killed in Assam encounter
– Only 407 toilets constructed out of 691 toilets (Total Sanitation Campaign Scam)
10. Peace pact seal after Parliament session (Centre approves final settlement with ANVC)
– Three ULFA men held with explosive in Garo Hills (Pre Independence Day security ops)
– Drought like-situation hit South west Garo Hills
– MRDS violated Govt norms by releasing Rs 3.11 crore into personal accounts (Toilet Scam)
– Murder, abduction in Garo Hills: Fuel station worker killed in Tura, Wine shop manager looted at gun point, a 9-year-old son of a bank employee was kidnapped from Bolarbita village of Chibinang area in Tikrikilla on August 11
14. Two migrant labourers from Assam held for allegedly murdering one Shoma Khongwir (24) of Hotel Pinewood residential quarter and dumping her body at Wahumkhrah River at Demseiniong.
– Nokma kidnapped (Nokma of Jadogre A’King kidnapped by suspected Garo militants from his home in distant South Garo Hills on August 12)
15. Incessant rains hits city, one injured in mudslide
– Landslide claims two sisters of a family at Madnung village near Sohiong, East Khasi Hills
19. ANCA chief, aide flee from police custody (A major security breach took place inside Mendipathar police station of North Garo Hills when self-styled militant chief and his aide arrested in Assam for shooting of a cop escaped from the station lock up on the morning of August 18)
21. Four militants camps busted, 25 cadres held (‘Operation Hills Storm’ to continue in Garo Hills for two more months): State police along with COBRA unit of CRPF and other central forces launched ‘Operation Hills Storm’ on July 11 in Durama Hills area and have arrested as many as 25 militants belonging to GNLA, ULFA, ASAK and other outfits)
– Govt apathy: 71 public utility vehicles left to rust at dealers’ stockyards
August 22
– ULFA cadre among three killed in Garo Hills
– Kidnapped SBI official Subodh Kumar was released unharmed on August 21 by Garo militant group along the Ind0-Bangladesh border in South Garo Hills district
23. 2 ASAK militants killed in Garo Hills
26. Garo Hills declared as flood-affected district (Over one lakh people affected as Brahmaputra, Jingiram waters inundate several villages)
– School teacher Sromwell Mawdoh joins HNLC
27. Ardent comes under UDP fire (Division in ruling ARPA in KHADC comes to light)
– ‘Phantom’ David Lyngdoh in police net
– Man gets 10-yr RI for raping minor
– 38 Japanese encephalitis cases in state (Woman dies in Garo Hills)
30. 4 dead, 32 injured as Shillong-bound bus turns turtle at Dollonggre near Anogre in West Garo Hills district on the night of August 28
– Vendors gherao KHADC office in Ardent’s support
September
1. Miscreants barge into the NEHU campus on the night of August 29 and on 31 afternoon clash with students resulting in injuries to them.
– Mukul gets Centre’s nod on road projects
– NGT panel gives go ahead to export of extracted coal: This brings relief to those connected with coal business. Committee constituted by National Green Tribunal (NGT) asked the Meghalaya Government to issue notification allowing transportation of coal from six district.
– Ardent sings unity song: (ARPA meet fails to take decision on leadership issue)
4. Sprint record set at demonstrator selection test: A major anomaly has been detected in the physical test conducted for selection of demonstrator under Soil and Water Conservative department
5. AICC General Secretary in-charge Meghalaya Luizinho Faleiro visits State
– Written FIR was filed against self styled chairman of ANVC-B Bernard N Marak with East Khasi Hills SP M Kharkrang
7. Base laid for first-ever eye hospital in Garo Hills (Lions Club gets land from district administration)
8. LAEF regrouping, expanding in Garo Hills, reveal arrested ultras (Outfit’s finance commander and hardcore cadre in police net)
– Another custodial death in Garo Hills (A 19-year-old caught by villagers with a stolen motorcycle and handed over to police in Baghmara was found hanging inside a lock-up early on September 7)
– An 8-year-old boy identified as Evenson Nongkynrih of Rambrai village was washed away by the strong current of Rambrai River in West Khasi Hills on Sept 6.
– State taking Qaeda threat seriously
10. Ardent remains KHADC chief (HSPDP turns down UDP’s change of leadership demand)
– Consumer exposed to diseased meat in absence of regular surveys
11. U-turn: Hawkers refuse to vacate Motphran overbridge
– ‘Piskot’ brings city growers, buyers at city conclave
– GNLA rebel killed in encounter
12. MeECL’s absurd power bills irks UDP (Opposition wants Corporation to suspend spot billing system)
– Khasi Author’s society completes 35 years of existence
– Number of political appointees touches 81 (Mukul appoints 5 MDCs in corporations, commissions)
– Ardents comes up with shift ‘Sweeper Lane’ solution
– Teacher of MeECL Higher Secondary School, Umiam – K Pandey arrested for allegedly molesting a student of the school on September 11.
– Church bandits strike again in Tura (Tura Baptist Church burgled on Sept 11)
– From Times Square to cable car: Promises galore (Times Square in Polo, Mono rails in Shillong, cable cars in urban areas, Visit of Bradford Football Club, Organic rice cultivation, Mobile Airports, Pine Mount International School)
– GNLA video show brutal canning of villagers
14. Laban Bengalee Boy’s School completes 91 years
– Five militants killed in Garo Hills
– Labourer allegedly killed in West Khasi Hills
– Home Department clean chit to state lawmakers (Apex court orders fast tracking of cases against MPs, MLAs)
– 12 GNLA camps destroyed, claims police: Op ‘Hill Storm’ toll touches 10
– Sohan flees to Bangladesh: Police
16. Ardent survives on UDP’s ‘second chance’
17. NGT respite for coal traders (Transport of 38,6545 MT coal from West Khasi Hills okayed)
18. Education Department Official Lufter Rahman held for taking bribe
– East Khasi Hills ADM (Additional District Magistrate) B Mawlong sets unusual precedence by refusing to meet people in his office chamber after 2 pm
19. Will sign peace agreement, ANVC-B confirms
– NGT permits transportation of coal in South Garo Hills
21. Father-son duo in police net over militant links (GNLA militant arrested in North Bengal)
– GNLA camps busted, ultras escape in Tura
22. Motphran bridge dismantled
23. Flood fury in Meghalaya (14 dead, 10 missing in torrential rains in Garo Hills, West Khasi Hills, NDRF rescue team arrives (Photo)
– Thunder storm lashes Garo Hills: knocks power out of MeECL (Equipment worth several crores damaged (Photo)
– Water released from Umiam Reservior after years on September 22
– One Sindu Tati From Muktapur under Amlarem sub-division in West Jaintia Hills died in VDP lock-up on Sept 18
24. Landslide claims eight lives in city (Eight person including a pregnant woman and her mother-in-law were killed and many others injured when a massive landslide buried them alive at Barapathar, in city on September 23)
– State officials caught napping at home even as landslide and flood tragedy was unfolding in Garo Hills, government sources reveal
– Angry mob attacked Superintendent of Police (SP) of East Jaintia Hills M K Dkhar, torched a police vehicle and damaged another vehicle belonging to a magistrate on the first day of the indefinite economic strike sponsored by Indigenous People Rights and Livelihood (MIPRL) against BGT ban on coal mining on the night of Sept 23.
25. Death toll from floods in State rises to 39, Garo Hills toll touches 25 (North Garo Hills:10, Shillong: 8, S West Garo Hills: 8, West Garo Hills: 7, East Garo Hills: 2, West Khasi Hills: 3, Est Jaintia Hills: 1 (total=39)
– Police firing claims 2 lives in Jaintia Hills: Two persons including a woman were killed and six injured on the evening of Sept 24 at Mookhep village in East Jaintia Hills when police fired at a mob which blocked the National Highway protesting against the arrest of a person from Wapungskur village in connection with the attack on police and the magistrate on the night of Sept 23 during the economic blocade against the apathy of the Government in addressing the issue of coal mining. (Mukul orders magisterial probe, announces ex-gratia of Rs 3 lakh)
– Peace pact signed (Historic day, says Mukul Sangma): Both factions of the ANVC on Sept 24 signed a memorandum of settlement (MoS) with the Meghalaya government and the Centre
26. Section 144 CrPC imposed, Central forces deployed in JH
– Tehelka sting op exposes AR: Assam Rifles’ top bras were caught taking bribes in a sting operation by tehelka SIT team.
27. Meghalaya loses Rs 117 crore in floods, landslides (Over 2.25 lakh people in 1172 villages affected: Dy CM)
– Ardent quits: KHADC Chief Executive Member (CEM) Ardent Killer Basaiawmoit on Sept 26 stepped down from office ending a month-long period of political uncertainty.
Sept 28
– Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijju on Saturday assured Central assistance to flood devastated Meghalaya.
29. Floods, landslide toll up to 52
– Toll 55: Purno, Salseng visit flood-hit areas
October
2. Nongshken MDC Grace Mary Kharpuri quits HSPDP on personal grounds
3. Meghalaya joins ‘Clean India Campaign’ (Army, BSF, ITBP, civil administration and general public participate in cleanliness drives across State)
6. Landslide strikes GS Road, 1 buried alive
– Two GNLA militant shot dead in Assam
– 15-year-old girl Richina N Sangma’s body recovered on Oct 5 by East Garo Hills police inside a forest located 5 Km away from Williamnagar. Stepfather arrested in this connection.
7. Major fire in Ganesh Das Hopital on the evening of Oct 6, no casualty
8. Coal mine owners get partial respite (Green court okays payment of royalty in three equal installments)
9. Police busted gang of dacoits (6 including gang leader arrested)
– Former Chief Secretary WMS Pariat appointed co-chairman of Meghalaya Resource and Employment Generation Council.
11. Mentally-ill girl raped in Ri Bhoi
– SC summons Meghalaya Chief Secretary Barkos Warjri (Meghalaya fails to provide data on facilities for mentally ill)
14. Wholesaler cheats LP school kids in Umroi, supplies rotten rice
– HSPDP MDC (Sohryngkham) Pyniaid Sing Syiem on Oct 13 resigned from the post of the Deputy Chairman of the KHADC.
15. Newly appointed CEM Adelbert Nongrum threatens to quits (Disgruntlement rocks ruling coalition in KHADC)
– Assam, Meghalaya accuse each other (Deplorable condition of NH 44)
16. Newly appointed KHADC CEM Adelbert Nongrum on Oct 15 decided to drop Grace Kharpuri from the EC to accommodate one more HSPDP MDC as an executive member
18. Cabinet nod to constitution of search panel (appointment of State Lokayukta)
19. Foundation stone laid for Jaiaw-Mawlai bridge
– 2 juvenile home inmates go missing
– Laloo defends re-test decision by MBOSE (Regularization of services difficult without fulfilling NCTE norms)
– Five held for desecrating grave in city
– Five GNLA surrender with arms in GH
– Pact silent on GHADC seats, special package (ANVC-ANVC-B agreed text for settlement)
23. 6 ULFA held in Garo Hills
24. Cops killed in anti-insurgency operation: Meghalaya police Sub-Inspector Pramoth Sangma (50) who was leading his team from the front to bust a hideout of suspected Garo militants in Purakhasia area of West Garo Hills district killed in an exchange of fire on the morning of Oct 23.
– One GNLA held with sniper rifle by N Garo Hills police
27. Leshka Stage 2 set in motion (Second unit of Myntdu-Leshka hydel project to generate 280 MW of power)
29. GNLA abducts primary school teacher Maliram Rabha at gunpoint from Damas area of North Garo Hills
30. GNLA frees school teacher Maliram Rabha
November
1. Conpensation for four Langpih firing victims (Assam Govt releases Rs 2 lakh each as compensation to the families of the four persons killed in police firing at Langpih on May, 14 2010)
4. Deborah faces charge-sheet for ‘using’ GNLA to win polls
– GNLA abducts school teacher
5. State police have shortlisted 10 most wanted militants operating in various part of the state and announced cash reward of Rs 10 lakh for information on them
6. GNLA offers Rs 20 lakh cash reward: Outfit offers money for assassination of district, judicial official in GH
Nov 8
– Ex-GNLA man stakes claim to AMEF leadership
– City woman falls prey to FB lure, duped of Rs 11 lakh
Nov 9
– DSP Polster Syiem hurt as Assam Police mistakenly fire at him in West Jaintia Hills district
10. Criminal case lodged against Assam cops: Meghalaya registers strong protest over Moolaber incident
– GNLA suffers another setback, six cadres surrender with arms
12. Sohan denies FB post, stands by bounty declaration (6 GNLA involved in Oragitok firing incident arrested)
13. GNLA attacks Deborah case witness
15. Deborah granted bail (Tennydard out with a rider)
– IAF chopper fails to land, union minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj skips Shillong for inauguration of Passport Seva Kendra
16. Kidnappers’ gang busted in Garo Hills
18. CBI chargsheets 4 including ex-MLCU Registrar
– Lawyers protest highhandedness of High Court Chief Justice
19. GNLA blast claims 2 cops (Millitants ambush police convoy near Siju)
20. Police pick up 46 students in city
21. Home Minister Roshan Warjri resigns from Cabinet (Home Minister takes responsibility for unrest in Garo Hills)
30. Modi flags off first train from Meghalaya
December
5. Senior cop’s house attacked in Garo Hills (GNLA leaves behind powerful IED)
– Meghalaya, Assam at loggerheads (Trial run of Shillong-Dhaka bus service)
6. Garo ultras trigger IED blast in Chokpot, 5 cops injured
11. ANVC submits list of cadres, arms
12. Two primes accused get lifer; accomplice 14-yr RI (Tura boy’s murderers get death sentence commuted to life imprisonment)
22. HC upholds Champion’s detention under MPDA
30. Patricia Mukhim receives O.N.E India Award
the state Government in the New Shillong township
29. Shillong Municipal Board begins demolition of shops at Polo market (Construction of new market complex back on track)
June 30
– Political appointments burden on state’s coffers (Mukul-led government appoints 76 politicos in corporations, PSUs)
July
1. 11 unlicensed shops locked in Police bazaar
9. South Garo Hills without power for 27 hours (Incessant rains, lightning cause power outage)
– Meghalaya gets first train to Mendipathar
10. Pala moves two bills on coal mining
12. Police raid Sohan’s new camp, cadre shot dead
17. Runaway CID sleuth Anjan Chakraborty arrested by state police
18. Sohra marathon hits the ground running
– KSU split, HYC constituted: The over-three-decades-old Khasi Students’ Union On July 17 suffered a split after a section the KSU leaders of Mawlai circle detached themselves from the union and announced the formation of a new organization Hynniewtrep Youth Council
– Satan worshippers desecrate Chapel at Golf Links
21. Another job scam in the state: Soil and Water Conservation dept conducts interview without official notification
– Garo outfit releases abducted Assam driver: Family pays Rs 1.5 lakh ransom
July 22
24. NGOs, Opp stall tabling of Customary Law Bill (Bid to give recognition to person born of non-Garo parent
25. Ardent summons Syiem of Mylliem (Pathetic condition of Iewduh)
26. IED blast claims 2 cops (GNLA militants ambush police party near Tura)
– KHADC staff face mob wrath (Five hurt; businessman, son arrested)
27. Cop attacked, friend missing (IED blast toll rises to 3, Government announces s 1 lakh each for families)
31. Jowai gets blood bank
August
1. CM Mukul seeks Modi’s intervention on coal mining
– Gunmen released Tennybirth Ch Momin, son of a police officer abducted by gunmen from his home in Mendipathar.
– Cabinet stretches GHADC term by another six months
3. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) sanctions Rs 18 crore for repair of Jowai-Malidor stretch of National Highway 44.
5. Over Rs 5 crore spent on non-existent school toilets (Total Sanitation Campaign scam in Garo Hills)
– Japanese encephalitis: Seven test positive in State
6. Bank official kidnapped in Garo Hills (Involvement of ASAK militants suspected)
August 7
– GNLA rebel escapes from hospital
– (MRDS returns Rs 40 lakhs of diverted fund: Meghalaya Rural Development Society (MRDS) that was tasked with construction of 691 school toilets in Garo Hills allegedly diverted several lakhs of Rupees for other works while a Tura supplier of materials for the project received more than Rs 1 crore despite supplying only a limited number of items for the works.
– Two HNLC extortionist in police net
August 9
– Ex-KSU leader murdered (Former KSU organizing secretary Richard Jana Nongbet (45) of Nongshilliang was found murdered inside the rented house at Pdeng Shnong near Lumshyiap Community Hall on August 7)
– Two GNLA rebels killed in Assam encounter
– Only 407 toilets constructed out of 691 toilets (Total Sanitation Campaign Scam)
10. Peace pact seal after Parliament session (Centre approves final settlement with ANVC)
– Three ULFA men held with explosive in Garo Hills (Pre Independence Day security ops)
– Drought like-situation hit South west Garo Hills
– MRDS violated Govt norms by releasing Rs 3.11 crore into personal accounts (Toilet Scam)
– Murder, abduction in Garo Hills: Fuel station worker killed in Tura, Wine shop manager looted at gun point, a 9-year-old son of a bank employee was kidnapped from Bolarbita village of Chibinang area in Tikrikilla on August 11
14. Two migrant labourers from Assam held for allegedly murdering one Shoma Khongwir (24) of Hotel Pinewood residential quarter and dumping her body at Wahumkhrah River at Demseiniong.
– Nokma kidnapped (Nokma of Jadogre A’King kidnapped by suspected Garo militants from his home in distant South Garo Hills on August 12)
15. Incessant rains hits city, one injured in mudslide
– Landslide claims two sisters of a family at Madnung village near Sohiong, East Khasi Hills
19. ANCA chief, aide flee from police custody (A major security breach took place inside Mendipathar police station of North Garo Hills when self-styled militant chief and his aide arrested in Assam for shooting of a cop escaped from the station lock up on the morning of August 18)
21. Four militants camps busted, 25 cadres held (‘Operation Hills Storm’ to continue in Garo Hills for two more months): State police along with COBRA unit of CRPF and other central forces launched ‘Operation Hills Storm’ on July 11 in Durama Hills area and have arrested as many as 25 militants belonging to GNLA, ULFA, ASAK and other outfits)
– Govt apathy: 71 public utility vehicles left to rust at dealers’ stockyards
August 22
– ULFA cadre among three killed in Garo Hills
– Kidnapped SBI official Subodh Kumar was released unharmed on August 21 by Garo militant group along the Ind0-Bangladesh border in South Garo Hills district
23. 2 ASAK militants killed in Garo Hills
26. Garo Hills declared as flood-affected district (Over one lakh people affected as Brahmaputra, Jingiram waters inundate several villages)
– School teacher Sromwell Mawdoh joins HNLC
27. Ardent comes under UDP fire (Division in ruling ARPA in KHADC comes to light)
– ‘Phantom’ David Lyngdoh in police net
– Man gets 10-yr RI for raping minor
– 38 Japanese encephalitis cases in state (Woman dies in Garo Hills)
30. 4 dead, 32 injured as Shillong-bound bus turns turtle at Dollonggre near Anogre in West Garo Hills district on the night of August 28
– Vendors gherao KHADC office in Ardent’s support
September
1. Miscreants barge into the NEHU campus on the night of August 29 and on 31 afternoon clash with students resulting in injuries to them.
– Mukul gets Centre’s nod on road projects
– NGT panel gives go ahead to export of extracted coal: This brings relief to those connected with coal business. Committee constituted by National Green Tribunal (NGT) asked the Meghalaya Government to issue notification allowing transportation of coal from six district.
– Ardent sings unity song: (ARPA meet fails to take decision on leadership issue)
4. Sprint record set at demonstrator selection test: A major anomaly has been detected in the physical test conducted for selection of demonstrator under Soil and Water Conservative department
5. AICC General Secretary in-charge Meghalaya Luizinho Faleiro visits State
– Written FIR was filed against self styled chairman of ANVC-B Bernard N Marak with East Khasi Hills SP M Kharkrang
7. Base laid for first-ever eye hospital in Garo Hills (Lions Club gets land from district administration)
8. LAEF regrouping, expanding in Garo Hills, reveal arrested ultras (Outfit’s finance commander and hardcore cadre in police net)
– Another custodial death in Garo Hills (A 19-year-old caught by villagers with a stolen motorcycle and handed over to police in Baghmara was found hanging inside a lock-up early on September 7)
– An 8-year-old boy identified as Evenson Nongkynrih of Rambrai village was washed away by the strong current of Rambrai River in West Khasi Hills on Sept 6.
– State taking Qaeda threat seriously
10. Ardent remains KHADC chief (HSPDP turns down UDP’s change of leadership demand)
– Consumer exposed to diseased meat in absence of regular surveys
11. U-turn: Hawkers refuse to vacate Motphran overbridge
– ‘Piskot’ brings city growers, buyers at city conclave
– GNLA rebel killed in encounter
12. MeECL’s absurd power bills irks UDP (Opposition wants Corporation to suspend spot billing system)
– Khasi Author’s society completes 35 years of existence
– Number of political appointees touches 81 (Mukul appoints 5 MDCs in corporations, commissions)
– Ardents comes up with shift ‘Sweeper Lane’ solution
– Teacher of MeECL Higher Secondary School, Umiam – K Pandey arrested for allegedly molesting a student of the school on September 11.
– Church bandits strike again in Tura (Tura Baptist Church burgled on Sept 11)
– From Times Square to cable car: Promises galore (Times Square in Polo, Mono rails in Shillong, cable cars in urban areas, Visit of Bradford Football Club, Organic rice cultivation, Mobile Airports, Pine Mount International School)
– GNLA video show brutal canning of villagers
14. Laban Bengalee Boy’s School completes 91 years
– Five militants killed in Garo Hills
– Labourer allegedly killed in West Khasi Hills
– Home Department clean chit to state lawmakers (Apex court orders fast tracking of cases against MPs, MLAs)
– 12 GNLA camps destroyed, claims police: Op ‘Hill Storm’ toll touches 10
– Sohan flees to Bangladesh: Police
16. Ardent survives on UDP’s ‘second chance’
17. NGT respite for coal traders (Transport of 38,6545 MT coal from West Khasi Hills okayed)
18. Education Department Official Lufter Rahman held for taking bribe
– East Khasi Hills ADM (Additional District Magistrate) B Mawlong sets unusual precedence by refusing to meet people in his office chamber after 2 pm
19. Will sign peace agreement, ANVC-B confirms
– NGT permits transportation of coal in South Garo Hills
21. Father-son duo in police net over militant links (GNLA militant arrested in North Bengal)
– GNLA camps busted, ultras escape in Tura
22. Motphran bridge dismantled
23. Flood fury in Meghalaya (14 dead, 10 missing in torrential rains in Garo Hills, West Khasi Hills, NDRF rescue team arrives (Photo)
– Thunder storm lashes Garo Hills: knocks power out of MeECL (Equipment worth several crores damaged (Photo)
– Water released from Umiam Reservior after years on September 22
– One Sindu Tati From Muktapur under Amlarem sub-division in West Jaintia Hills died in VDP lock-up on Sept 18
24. Landslide claims eight lives in city (Eight person including a pregnant woman and her mother-in-law were killed and many others injured when a massive landslide buried them alive at Barapathar, in city on September 23)
– State officials caught napping at home even as landslide and flood tragedy was unfolding in Garo Hills, government sources reveal
– Angry mob attacked Superintendent of Police (SP) of East Jaintia Hills M K Dkhar, torched a police vehicle and damaged another vehicle belonging to a magistrate on the first day of the indefinite economic strike sponsored by Indigenous People Rights and Livelihood (MIPRL) against BGT ban on coal mining on the night of Sept 23.
25. Death toll from floods in State rises to 39, Garo Hills toll touches 25 (North Garo Hills:10, Shillong: 8, S West Garo Hills: 8, West Garo Hills: 7, East Garo Hills: 2, West Khasi Hills: 3, Est Jaintia Hills: 1 (total=39)
– Police firing claims 2 lives in Jaintia Hills: Two persons including a woman were killed and six injured on the evening of Sept 24 at Mookhep village in East Jaintia Hills when police fired at a mob which blocked the National Highway protesting against the arrest of a person from Wapungskur village in connection with the attack on police and the magistrate on the night of Sept 23 during the economic blocade against the apathy of the Government in addressing the issue of coal mining. (Mukul orders magisterial probe, announces ex-gratia of Rs 3 lakh)
– Peace pact signed (Historic day, says Mukul Sangma): Both factions of the ANVC on Sept 24 signed a memorandum of settlement (MoS) with the Meghalaya government and the Centre
26. Section 144 CrPC imposed, Central forces deployed in JH
– Tehelka sting op exposes AR: Assam Rifles’ top bras were caught taking bribes in a sting operation by tehelka SIT team.
27. Meghalaya loses Rs 117 crore in floods, landslides (Over 2.25 lakh people in 1172 villages affected: Dy CM)
– Ardent quits: KHADC Chief Executive Member (CEM) Ardent Killer Basaiawmoit on Sept 26 stepped down from office ending a month-long period of political uncertainty.
Sept 28
– Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijju on Saturday assured Central assistance to flood devastated Meghalaya.
29. Floods, landslide toll up to 52
– Toll 55: Purno, Salseng visit flood-hit areas
October
2. Nongshken MDC Grace Mary Kharpuri quits HSPDP on personal grounds
3. Meghalaya joins ‘Clean India Campaign’ (Army, BSF, ITBP, civil administration and general public participate in cleanliness drives across State)
6. Landslide strikes GS Road, 1 buried alive
– Two GNLA militant shot dead in Assam
– 15-year-old girl Richina N Sangma’s body recovered on Oct 5 by East Garo Hills police inside a forest located 5 Km away from Williamnagar. Stepfather arrested in this connection.
7. Major fire in Ganesh Das Hopital on the evening of Oct 6, no casualty
8. Coal mine owners get partial respite (Green court okays payment of royalty in three equal installments)
9. Police busted gang of dacoits (6 including gang leader arrested)
– Former Chief Secretary WMS Pariat appointed co-chairman of Meghalaya Resource and Employment Generation Council.
11. Mentally-ill girl raped in Ri Bhoi
– SC summons Meghalaya Chief Secretary Barkos Warjri (Meghalaya fails to provide data on facilities for mentally ill)
14. Wholesaler cheats LP school kids in Umroi, supplies rotten rice
– HSPDP MDC (Sohryngkham) Pyniaid Sing Syiem on Oct 13 resigned from the post of the Deputy Chairman of the KHADC.
15. Newly appointed CEM Adelbert Nongrum threatens to quits (Disgruntlement rocks ruling coalition in KHADC)
– Assam, Meghalaya accuse each other (Deplorable condition of NH 44)
16. Newly appointed KHADC CEM Adelbert Nongrum on Oct 15 decided to drop Grace Kharpuri from the EC to accommodate one more HSPDP MDC as an executive member
18. Cabinet nod to constitution of search panel (appointment of State Lokayukta)
19. Foundation stone laid for Jaiaw-Mawlai bridge
– 2 juvenile home inmates go missing
– Laloo defends re-test decision by MBOSE (Regularization of services difficult without fulfilling NCTE norms)
– Five held for desecrating grave in city
– Five GNLA surrender with arms in GH
– Pact silent on GHADC seats, special package (ANVC-ANVC-B agreed text for settlement)
23. 6 ULFA held in Garo Hills
24. Cops killed in anti-insurgency operation: Meghalaya police Sub-Inspector Pramoth Sangma (50) who was leading his team from the front to bust a hideout of suspected Garo militants in Purakhasia area of West Garo Hills district killed in an exchange of fire on the morning of Oct 23.
– One GNLA held with sniper rifle by N Garo Hills police
27. Leshka Stage 2 set in motion (Second unit of Myntdu-Leshka hydel project to generate 280 MW of power)
29. GNLA abducts primary school teacher Maliram Rabha at gunpoint from Damas area of North Garo Hills
30. GNLA frees school teacher Maliram Rabha
November
1. Conpensation for four Langpih firing victims (Assam Govt releases Rs 2 lakh each as compensation to the families of the four persons killed in police firing at Langpih on May, 14 2010)
4. Deborah faces charge-sheet for ‘using’ GNLA to win polls
– GNLA abducts school teacher
5. State police have shortlisted 10 most wanted militants operating in various part of the state and announced cash reward of Rs 10 lakh for information on them
6. GNLA offers Rs 20 lakh cash reward: Outfit offers money for assassination of district, judicial official in GH
Nov 8
– Ex-GNLA man stakes claim to AMEF leadership
– City woman falls prey to FB lure, duped of Rs 11 lakh
Nov 9
– DSP Polster Syiem hurt as Assam Police mistakenly fire at him in West Jaintia Hills district
10. Criminal case lodged against Assam cops: Meghalaya registers strong protest over Moolaber incident
– GNLA suffers another setback, six cadres surrender with arms
12. Sohan denies FB post, stands by bounty declaration (6 GNLA involved in Oragitok firing incident arrested)
13. GNLA attacks Deborah case witness
15. Deborah granted bail (Tennydard out with a rider)
– IAF chopper fails to land, union minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj skips Shillong for inauguration of Passport Seva Kendra
16. Kidnappers’ gang busted in Garo Hills
18. CBI chargsheets 4 including ex-MLCU Registrar
– Lawyers protest highhandedness of High Court Chief Justice
19. GNLA blast claims 2 cops (Millitants ambush police convoy near Siju)
20. Police pick up 46 students in city
21. Home Minister Roshan Warjri resigns from Cabinet (Home Minister takes responsibility for unrest in Garo Hills)
30. Modi flags off first train from Meghalaya
December
5. Senior cop’s house attacked in Garo Hills (GNLA leaves behind powerful IED)
– Meghalaya, Assam at loggerheads (Trial run of Shillong-Dhaka bus service)
6. Garo ultras trigger IED blast in Chokpot, 5 cops injured
11. ANVC submits list of cadres, arms
12. Two primes accused get lifer; accomplice 14-yr RI (Tura boy’s murderers get death sentence commuted to life imprisonment)
22. HC upholds Champion’s detention under MPDA
30. Patricia Mukhim receives O.N.E India Award
