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SHILLONG, Oct 15: The Public Works Department (PWD) has held the authority of the Jowai Government Public School responsible for the collapse of a brick wall while claiming that the college authority had failed to heed its advice regarding earth filing work behind the said wall.
In a statement issued here on Monday, PWD (Buildings) chief engineer F Marbaniang said that the school authority through its school development fund (SDF) have done some levelling work behind the school building and the filling work behind the brick wall fencing without informing nor consulting the department before executing the work.

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SHILLONG, Oct 15: IIM Shillong paid tribute to the missile man of India, Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam on Monday to commemorate his 87th birth anniversary. The planned event was preceded with a fun-filled day organized under the Nurturing Minds initiative for school children present from in and around the campus on October 13, followed by special screening of his documentary offered by National Geographic.

Guwahati, Oct 15 (IANS): Thirty-one Bangladeshi nationals were detained at the railway station here on Monday, a police official said.
"The group came to Guwahati from Bengaluru onboard the Guwahati-Bangalore Express. They were waiting to board the Kanchanjungha express to go to Agartala," Superintendent of Railway Police Hemanta Kumar Das told the media here.

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SHILLONG, Oct 15: The court of the Judicial magistrate (first class) of Meghalaya deferred its judgment on Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed to November 9.
With this, the hearing on his case has been deferred for the third time in a row. The first incident was on August 13 and then October 15. A visibly sad Ahmed, while coming out of the court informed that the hearing has again been deferred to November 9th.

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SHILONG, Oct 15: The dilapidated condition of the road leading to one of the premier medical institutes in the North East region, the North Eastern India Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) has prompted the Meghalaya High Court to pull up the state government.
The matter came up during the hearing conducted by the division bench headed by chief justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir and Justice SR Sen, which has taken sou motu cognizance on the condition of the National Highway 40-Shillong to Dawki, here on Monday.

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SHILLONG, Oct 15: The Meghalaya government has decided to use its own land for the development of the Games Village and stadiums for the upcoming National Games which the state will host in the year 2022.
This decision was arrived at during a meeting of the High Powered Committee (HPC) under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister, Conrad Sangma which met here on Monday.
“We have identified the land. However, it will not be appropriate for me to tell (the location) but it is around Shillong and it is something where we don’t have to spend single paise,” Conrad informed after the meeting.

Agartala, Oct 15 (IANS): Alcoholic drinks and animals including goat, pigeons and buffaloes are offered as items of sacrifice in a 300-year-old Durga Puja sponsored by the Tripura government.
To maintain the royal family's traditional sanctity, the government has for the past seven decades been bearing the entire expenditure of Durga Puja at the Durgabari temple.