Fresh clashes erupted between two communities living at the Assam-Meghalaya border, where the groups were reportedly found indulging in physical attacks using bows, arrows, and catapults in Lapangap village. The tension between Assam and Meghalaya is not new. Even though both states have partially resolved a 50-year-old border dispute in six […]
Assam-Meghalaya border dispute is tense in the Jaintia Hills, and only state-registered vehicles are allowed to enter Meghalaya
A spectre of tension continued in Meghalaya and Assam on Thursday, in aftermath of the firing incident along the Assam-Meghalaya border. Only vehicles with Meghalaya’s registration were allowed entry into the state. As reported earlier, tension gripped Meghalaya’s capital Shillong too after miscreants torched a traffic booth on Thursday evening […]
6 killed in Assam-Meghalaya border; Internet services suspended in 7 Meghalaya districts
Meghalaya has suspended mobile internet services in seven districts of the state for 48 hours after six persons including one Assam forest official were killed in firing in Mukroh in West Jaintia Hills on the border between the two states. Mobile internet/data services have been suspended in seven districts of […]
3 including child killed in elephant attack along Assam-Meghalaya border
At least three people including a child were killed in a wild elephant attack in Assam’s Goalpara district along the Assam-Meghalaya border. The incident took place at Kurang village near Lakhipur along the Assam-Meghalaya border in the wee hours of Monday. According to the forest official, a herd of wild elephants were coming to the […]