SHILLONG: Amid the protests by KSU and other organisations against the proposed uranium project, pro-uranium mining groups will hold a public rally on the issue in the city on Friday.
Stray incidents of violence were reported on the first night of the road blockade called by Khasi Students Union to protest the proposed uranium mining project in Meghalaya. A SUV was burnt near Nartiang in Jaintia Hills district last night and a Government owned vehicle torched in Mawlai area of the capital city this morning, police said.
A representative of a United Nations body today said the Government of India should hold intense dialogue with the local people, get their consent and then take up the uranium mining project in Meghalaya.
Prohibitory orders have been imposed in parts of Meghalaya to foil a night blockade call by the Khasi Students Union beginning tonight to protest the proposed uranium mining project in the State.
Protests over the proposed uranium mining project in Meghalaya are veering towards a confrontationist path, as the influential Khasi Students Union (KSU) spearheading the campaign announced a two-night road blockade of the national Highway 44.
SHILLONG, Oct 14: Like the embedded uranium ore that is caught between the warring anti and pro-mining groups, there are common people in uranium deposit sites whose voice is embedded with bamboozling thoughts over the issue. The sentinel
NONGSTOIN: Member of the Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (CWSC&ST) and Congress legislator Ronnie V Lyngdoh has stated that the anti-uranium group is no different to the militant insurgent groups even as he stated that there is foreign hand sponsoring the anti-uranium groups to destabilise the nation.
SHILLONG, Oct 13: Public debate on the vexed proposed uranium mining in Meghalaya has taken a new dimension after a legislator of the Meghalaya United Alliance (MUA) aired his comment on the possible role of the United States of America (USA) in instigating the anti-uranium mining lobby in the State.
