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If you have not yet seen the action-packed Operation Mekong, you must do it now, not only for the sake of super-thrill but also to have an idea of how dangerous is the blood-soaked events that take place in The Golden Triangle.

Tripura, willy-nilly, is a small component of this vicious Triangle. No wonder, the state’s Chief Minister received a death threat from the operators of the Golden Triangle.  

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Villagers irked over non-function of Health Center

The Khasi Student Union South West Khasi Hills (KSUSWKH) of the Nongkynbah Area Unit urged the State Government to speady up the function of the Nongkynbah Health Sub Centre in Nongkenbah Village. The KSU remind that the Health Engineering Wing has already completed the construction of the Health Center in the year 2014.

Nongkenbah Sub center will caters villages including Mawpud, Kenbah, Sarin, Nongpdengkynbah and other adjacent villages nearby. Nongkenbah Area Unit President Gomelson Snaitang demanded from the Health Department as the why it takes 4 years for the function of the Health Center in the area. Till date there is no working staff in the center and even the surrounding of the Health center is covered with wild vegetation Snaitang added.

The KSU also urged MLA of Ranikor Constituency to intervene in this matter for the benefits of the people in the region.

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MHIS to merge with Ayushman Bharat

A.L Hek the Health & Family Welfare Minister Government of Meghalaya today officially announced the discontinuity of the Megha Health Insurance Scheme (MHIS). MHIS phase II was stopped from 25^th September 2018 but those patients who was hospitalized before the 25^th of September will continue to get the benefits Minister A.L Hek said.

The reason for the Government of Meghalaya to stop the MHIS was to concentrate on the existing scheme that is to converge with the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) or the Ayushman Bhrarat.  Ayushman Bharat and MHIS will work in convergence as the Government strives to provide quality service to the people of the State. The Scheme will cover of Rs. 5 lakhs per family. This campaign was carried out by the Health and Education Department which was assisted by Social Welfare Department.

The Minister also talks about the success of Measles Rubella campaign which was launched in the State. The campaign is a onetime activity which aims at reaching out to children from 9 months to 15 years of age. Till date around 1, 88,566 boys and 1, 93,855 girls have been vaccinated across the State. The Minister urged all section of the society to understand the goal of this campaign and come out in getting children vaccinated in order to protect them from many life threatening diseases. The Minister also mentions that the MHIS Phase IV will likely be ready by December 2018.

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Durga Puja, the greatest festival of the Hindus, is not only a religious performance, but a festival of concord and universal fraternity. The worship of goddess Durga has been prevalent since pre-historic age, as the worship of Shakti (strength). Many images of the Divine Mother in different forms and gesture were found in the excavation of Mhenjodaro and Harappa. Later on, in the Vedic period, the worship was followed by chanting hymns from the Vedas and performances of sacrifice (Yagnas).This system of puja is being continued till the day.

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In the backdrop of the bohemian,surrounding the likelihood of one of the most potent insurgent groups of the Northeast region, NSCN IM or the Issak-Muivah faction of the Naga Socialist Council of Nagalim, finally concluding its peace deal with the government of India, after 21 years of ceasefire and several rounds of talks, on the basis of a framework agreement signed by the group’s Chief negotiator and Supremo, Thuingaleng Muivah and the government of India’s interlocutor, RN Ravi, in the presence of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Home Minister, Rajnath Singh on August 3rd 2015, the Kukis, the other tribal group, inhabiting the hills of Manipur are getting anxious with their own ethnic based homeland agenda and are using what it is called the ‘Kuki genocide for 1992-1997’ to get the better of the Nagas at the negotiating table.

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However, what the people of the country have been witnessing is the blame game between the Central government and State governments. Though the public sector oil marketing companies reduced the prices of petrol and diesel by one paisa per litre recently, the prices had risen again, especially after the metropolitan cities like Mumbai and New Delhi found it difficult to stem the rot.