The Shillong Times

December 23rd, 2012

• An evening of Indigenous Christmas

  December 23rd, 2012

  Social communicator and song writer Kit Shangpliang on the culture of hope subtly bigger this Xmas  IN THE predominance of social ills and the sense of hopelessness looming large, is the message of Christmas still relevant? On December 14, at NEHU’s Bijni Complex Ground, Laitumkhrah, ‘Christmas ha i lyngwiar dpei’ gathered people from different walks [...]

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• If only we had known

  December 23rd, 2012

  A Christmas fantasy by Rev Presley B Lyngdoh  THEY CAME down our way, the man and his young wife. I was watching them.      When they came to our house and saw me standing at the door, they stopped and the man asked me, “Excuse me, Sir, do you by any chance know any place [...]

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• Christmas for the youth

  December 23rd, 2012

  The festival isn’t like the ones Collin Wanñiang used to know  THE BING Crosby version of the nostalgic Christmas carol song of the 1940’s ‘White Christmas’ of Irving Berlin reminiscing about the old-fashioned Christmas setting, is said, according to the Guinness Book of Records 2009, to be the best-selling single of all time, with an [...]

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• SCI-FUNDA

  December 23rd, 2012

  Top global killers mapped  CHRONIC DISEASES such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes have taken the place of infectious diseases and malnutrition-related childhood illnesses as the primary cause of death worldwide, according to the largest investigation of global health to date. But in Africa, infectious and vaccine-preventable diseases remain urgent concerns, alongside maternal, child and [...]

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• Relieving relief

  December 23rd, 2012

  Alka Pande writes about teenagers on a crusade for toilets  THERE WAS a time when 12-year-old Shivani Maurya was forced to get up early in the morning – while it was still very dark – so that she could relieve herself in an open ground near her home in Jakhaura village of Lalitpur, one of [...]

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• RAINBOW DRAWINGS

  December 23rd, 2012

  

  1.  Fiami R Marak, Class 6, Casarina Public School, Tura 2.  Man Ngaih Nem, Class 6, Army Public School 3.  Febrina Mary Sohtun, Class 2, Tender Care School 4.  Chrisken T Marak, Class 3A, St Xavier’s Secondary School, Tura 5.  Biginchi S Sangma, Class 1, Don Bosco School, Tura 6.  Dasanshakhmat DM Kharmawphlang, Class 2, [...]

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• Morgan does a Miandad

  December 23rd, 2012

  Mumbai: In a scene reminiscent of Javed Miandad’s last-ball six in 1986 against India, England skipper Eoin Morgan led a stunning comeback with an unbeaten 26-ball 49 as the visitors snatched a nerve-wracking last-ball victory to win the second Twenty20 International against India and level the two-match series 1-1, here on Saturday. Needing three off [...]

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