TURA: It was a historic occasion at Kilapara on Saturday as BSF director general Subhash Joshi and director general of Border Guard Bangladesh Major General Aziz Ahmed unveiled the newly renovated war memorial here."During the 1971 Indo-Pak War, 83 battalion of BSF was deployed in Tura. Many Bengali refugees and high-ranking political dignitaries of then East Pakistan were taking shelter in a refugee...

Source : Times Of India | 24 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Tura

SBI donates school buses

donated two school buses to Auxilium Secondary School, Tura, and Auxilium Convent High School, Tangla, under its corporate social responsibility scheme for providing transportation to the poor and underprivileged students.Rajnish Kumar, chief general manager of SBI's NE Circle, handed over the keys of the vehicles to Phyllis Bamon, sister superior of Auxilium Secondary School, Tura and Catherine, sister...

Source : Times Of India | 40 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Tura

Chinese dams worry Arunachal

Tura (Meghalaya), Feb 16 : Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki said Saturday he would ask the central government to look into China constructing three hydropower projects on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet."China building the three dams will affect the interest of people in the downstream areas. We will soon move New Delhi to take up this issue with China in the interest of the people," Tuki...

Source : Newkerala | 123 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Tura

Agatha campaigns for daddy Sangma

Sangma, the Nationalist Congress Party MP from Tura, has started campaigning for the Nationalist People's Party (NPP) in full throttle. Led by her father, the veteran Purno A'gitok Sangma, she is often seen moving in election caravans, in the run up to the assembly elections in Meghalaya. While it's no secret that she is campaigning for her father, there's no public announcement of her having joined...

Source : Times Of India | 127 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Tura

Sangma plays tribal card to garner support from northeast

speaker and NDA presidential candidate P.A. Sangma Saturday appealed to politicians in the mostly Congress-ruled northeastern states - a large share of who are tribals - to support his candidature "without any doubt or fear"."I belong to the northeast and I am a tribal candidate from the northeast. The presidential election is above party politics and no party can officially enforce any whip. So, I...

Source : The Economic Times | 354 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Tura

I will win on basis of secret ballot: PA Sangma

race for Raisina Hill is gathering pace and so far, only the BJD and AIADMK have come out in support of former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno A’gitok Sangma’s candidature.is gathering pace and so far, only the BJD and AIADMK have come out in support of formerthat there are other parties backing him, though they have not made their support public yet. Excerpts:Firstly, I have not projected myself. It is a...

Source : Times Of India | 381 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Tura

Sangma reviews meet on basin development

Tura, Feb 14 : A review meeting on Integrated Basin Development and Livelihood Programme (IBDLP) for the three districts of Garo Hills has been convened in Tura by Meghalaya Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma.Addressing the district officials from the line departments during the meeting, held yesterday in the presence of Commissioner & Secretary (Planning) R M Mishra, the chief minister said the integrated...

Source : Newkerala | 491 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Tura

Horti-hub inaugurated in Meghalaya

hub which started as a seed-farm in the 1950s, will function as a demonstration-cum-training centre for farmers on new crop technology and cultivation, commercialization and management of crops.Laid over seven hectares of area, the hub had been lying unutilised for decades before it got sanctioned in 2008.At present, there are nine poly-houses, out of which two are being used for orchid plantation...

Source : Times Of India | 530 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Tura

Steps to restore road connectivity in Meghalaya's flood-hit areas

Tura (Meghalaya), Aug 22: Steps have been taken to restore road connectivity in the flood-hit areas of Meghalaya even as a health campaign launched to prevent outbreak of water borne diseases, an official said today.Several villages remained cut-off as roads and bridges were damaged and swept away by the flood waters. Selsella, Rajabala, Phulbari, Dadenggiri Assembly constituencies and other places...

Source : Newkerala | 666 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Tura

Floods trigger epidemic fears in Meghalaya

Tura (Meghalaya), Aug 22: Health authorities in flood-ravaged Garo Hills region of Meghalaya Monday said they feared an epidemic once the floodwaters recede if precautions are not taken.“We are apprehending that many water-borne diseases might break out in the flood-hit areas once the water-level starts receding in the next 10 to 15 days,” Malti K. Marak, the district medical chief of West Garo Hills,...

Source : Newkerala | 667 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Tura