The Shillong Times

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December 14th, 2012

• Whither MeECL?

  December 14th, 2012

  Editor, Outrageous or whatever you name it is the way the MeECL functions. Just a few days back we saw a letter to the editor in your newspaper about the continuous malfunction of the street lights along the dyke on the Umiam reservoir. Now we see photographs in your newspaper about the ill maintained children’s [...]

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• Development in Syria

  December 14th, 2012

  Syria which has been on a slow burn for some time has now entered a new phase. The US has formally recognized a coalition of Syrian Opposition Groups as the country’s legitimate representatives. On the eve of an international conference in Marrakech, President Barack Obama said that the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary & Opposition [...]

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• Time to pay income tax

  December 14th, 2012

  By Patricia Mukhim Recently when the members of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) led by its Chairman, Naresh Chandra visited Shillong for a discussion with Government representatives of the seven North Eastern states and academicians/NGOs, he was surprised when a high ranking official of a neighbouring state proposed that the tribes should start paying [...]

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• Ethics of The Internet

  December 14th, 2012

  By Ananya S Guha Ethics and the Internet is an issue that is now arousing debate. I was reading an article on such dialectic in The Telegraph, Kolkata. It was an interesting article which pointed out the import of an ethic, contexualizing it in the domain of freedom of expression. But that expression cannot be [...]

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• Creative Pottery Art Workshop organised in the city

  December 14th, 2012

  

  Shillong : Women dry pottery works during the ‘Sung Valley Earth (A Creative Pottery Art Workshop) at the State Central Library premises on Thursday. (ST)

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• India let England off the hook on Day 1

  December 14th, 2012

  Nagpur: India’s bowlers let England off the hook and allowed the visitors to recover from a difficult position as they reached 199 for five at stumps on the opening day to leave the crucial fourth and final cricket Test evenly poised here on Thursday. The home team had England in a real spot at 139 [...]

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• This is the most difficult wicket I have played on, says Pietersen

  December 14th, 2012

  Nagpur: England batsman Kevin Pietersen said, on Thursday, that the slow-paced pitch prepared for the fourth and final Test here is the toughest he has played on as far as scoring runs in concerned. “It’s toughest wicket I have played Test cricket on in terms of scoring runs. I don’t have a clue what the [...]

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