The perplex tackling of Bangladeshi illegal immigrations into India will be more pronounced due to global warming, felt Meghalaya Additional Director General of Police Kulbir Kishen.

Presenting a paper at a two-day national seminar in Shillong on Saturday, the ADGP anticipated a bigger problem, if scientists' prediction about global warming is to be believed.

Due to global warming, a one metre rise of the ocean water will swamp 25 per cent of Bangladesh land and those displaced Bangladeshis will look up and rush to India, stated Kishen.

It's argued that deforestation has made climate change worse. The town of Cherrapunjee, in the north-eastern Indian state of Meghalaya, is reputed to be the wettest place in the world. But there are signs that its weather patterns may be being hit by global climate change.

SHILLONG: It takes a big jolt to shake citizens out of their complacency. But repeated tremors in the past two days have put people on notice. The tremor that shook Shillong at dawn on Monday was serious enough to make the authorities of a local school do an earthquake drill. Children were asked to take shelter under the table and told that was what they should do in case an earthquake strikes.

As per data received from Upper Shillong Central Seismological Observatory (CSO), in the last nine years, from 2000 to 2008, as many as 187 tremors have shaken Shillong city.

SHILLONG: Deputy Chief Minister Hoping Stone Lyngdoh has stuck to his guns on the uranium issue, saying he was even opposed to the idea of setting up the All-Party Committee on Uranium Mining by the MPA Government.

Mr Lyngdoh on Monday said he still held the view that "no expert in the world is able to help protect people from radiation of uranium."

Cabinet decides to seek fresh MoAs on 4 hydel projects

SHILLONG: Bowing to prolonged public outcry, the MPA Cabinet on Thursday abrogated two major deals on three power projects that, it said, were inked by the former Congress-led Government with different private firms in violation of the State Power Policy. The government also decided to go for fresh MoAs with the other parties on four hydel power projects.

The deals scrapped by the government include those entered into with Athena Project Private Limited on Kynshi Stage I and Jay Pee Group on Umngot and Kynshi Stage II.

SHILLONG, July 24

The town of Cherrapunjee, in the Indian state of Meghalaya, is reputed to be the wettest place in the world.

But there are signs that its weather patterns may be being hit by global climate change.

"Not without reason has Cherrapunjee achieved fame as being the place with the heaviest rainfall on earth," wrote German missionary Christopher Becker more than 100 years ago.

JOWAI: Concerned over the devastating effect of mining on environment and its components, the Jaintia Forum for Biodiversity and Cultural Heritage (JFBCH) has urged the Central and the State Government and all the concerned authorities to stop issuing the clearance certificates for expansion of all the existing cements plants in Jaintia Hills District.