Amanda Pakyntein, wife of sitting legislator from Mawkynrew and former cabinet minister Banteidor Lyngdoh, on Monday filed her nomination papers from Mawkynrew on a National People’s Party (NPP) ticket for the upcoming elections to the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) and expressed confidence to win the seat.
Prominent members of the Shillong All Faiths Forum (SAFF) are affronted by the claim of the Assam based Kutumba Surakshya Parishad (KSP) that the recent clash in Mawkynrew Village is an “act of religious intolerance”.
Residents of Mawkynrew and Mawlein under the banner of the ‘Sur Paidbah jong ki ar Dorbar Shnong’ on Tuesday said that they will not to allow the construction of the Ramakrishna Mission School to resume in Mawkynrew village in East Khasi Hills till the issue of land dispute is resolved.
The state government has deployed an additional one platoon of police personnel at Mawkynrew village following the violent protest over land allotted for the construction of the Ramakrishna Mission school.
Shillong, Jan 20: The District Magistrate East Khasi Hills on Monday has imposed a curfew in Mawkynrew Village under Madanrting Police Station in East...