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FISH THE PROBLEM

The people of Shillong, the neighborhood, are still facing the acute problem of no fish curry. The State Government which had banned import of fish because of the detection of Formalin for fifteen days, had extended another fifteen days for another reason. That the absence of fish in the market would encourage, fishing within the state, to benefit fishermen and increase production. Whether fifteen days is enough to meet the requirement of eighty thousand metric tons of fish in year, required. It is something beyond mathematical calculation and imagination.

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Far from the madding crowds of the world and nestled in the lap of nature, the Seven Sisters of North Eastern India currently are under the sinister shadow of cross-border smuggling carried out by the Muslim smugglers of Bangladesh and mainly ethnic Chin people of Myanmar. These dangerous smugglers are getting emboldened day by day. They not only are carrying out smuggling operations most daringly in Meghalaya, Mizoram, Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Nagaland but also killing local people and members of the Border Security Force and other paramilitary outfits guarding the long, porous borders that touch lawless Bangladesh and Myanmar.

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Usually, we don’t ask a lady how old is she as it embarrasses her. Why? Most ladies, as the saying goes, attempts to hide their actual age. Hence, dislikes being asked how old she is? But one among the Seven Sisters of North Eastern India, Meghalaya, would proudly say she is 4,200 years old. But why should such an old lady among the Seven Sisters feels so proud about her age? This is due to the reason that all earthlings officially are now living in The Meghalayan Age: in her age, technically. Interesting, is not it? Equally interesting is the fact that The Meghalayan Age, among other things, is also known as the “Age of Destruction” be it the collapse of Indus Valley Civilization or the devastation of Pompeii due to eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius and Herculaneum in 79 A.D.

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The art of comedy has gone viral on television and social media. Lol (laugh out loud) is the mood. Cynically speaking, there is something seriously wrong with a society that is completely addicted to finding reasons to laugh out loud all the time. But maybe that is digging too deep and is not in the scope of this article. What is agonizingly irritating though is that comedy is being sprinkled with obscene, derogatory and cheap views of women. Seriously, how sexhungry must a society be to share such jokes and laugh about them publicly? Shameless, but we don’t even find it objectionable anymore!

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The talk of the town from World Cup and now switching over to fish, the most popular commodity among all the communities in the capital city, also in the State and the entire region of North East India. Angling is one of the most popular sports in the rivulets, streams and river. But suddenly the word had spread in the fish markets, that ‘Formalin’ essentially being a preservative, yet can upset the health of the population has been laced on fish bodies, especially being imported from Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal.

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The constitution of the Council has marked the beginning of a new chapter of concerted and planned endeavor for the rapid development of the region. Over the last thirty-five years, NEC has been instrumental in setting in motion a new economic endeavor aimed at removing the basic handicaps that stood in the way of normal development of the region and has ushered in an era of new hope in this backward area full of great potentialities.

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Born in Kandhulimari village in Assam to rice farmers Ronjit and Jonali Das, Hima Das is the eldest of four children. From her days in the village, Hima spent her times playing football with the boys from her village besides helping her parents in the paddy fields. She attended Dhing Public School and would participate in local football tournament in an around her village. Being a sport enthusiastic her school Physical Education Teacher Shamsul Haque encourage her to take up athletics in short and middle distance races. He later introduced her to Gowri Shankar Roy of the Nagaon Sports Association for her proper training. With proper training she first made impression when she qualified for an inter-district competition and won two Gold medals at the sports meet. She could not appear for her Higher Secondary Arts stream final examination this year as she was busy in the Commonwealth Games but that doesn’t bother her parents as the family was confident of her bringing laurels to the State and country as a whole someday.

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Forming one of the main regions of the beautiful state of Meghalaya, one of India’s most popular tourist attractions, the Jaintia Hills are famous for the way they have held on to their tribal culture even today, in an age of modernism. One of the most important features of the tribal charm of Meghalaya is the Behdienkhlam Festival, (June-July) which remains as one of the most popular festivals of the region.