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• North East ethnic clashes: Meghalaya announces compensation for displaced families

  The Meghalaya government has announced a compensation of Rs 10,000 each to the families displaced in the ongoing ethnic violence in the state.Informing this, Meghalaya Home Minister H D R Lyngdoh said three bundles of CGI sheets would also be given to the families as immediate relief.On the other hand, the state Congress also announced Rs 5 lakh ca...

• Assam ethnic clashes: Fresh firing at the border

  After two days of relative calm at the Assam-Meghalaya border fresh firing was reported between two groups on Sunday morning.More violence erupted on late Saturday night as three houses were set on fire.The two communities - Garos and Rabhas - have been clashing along ethnic lines in Assam's Goalpara District and bordering Meghalaya since the begin...

• Ethnic clashes: Assam, Meghalaya simmer

  At least 10,000 people have been displaced after violent ethnic clashes between two communities - the Garos and the Rabhas - along Assam-Meghalaya border. And what's worse is that the civil administration still appears to react slow.There is still no visible presence of police or paramilitary forces inside Assam. Across the border in Meghalaya forc...

• Four dead in ethnic clashes in North-East; thousands displaced

  Four people were killed and more than a thousand displaced after ethnic clashes broke out between the Rabha and Garos communities along the Assam-Meghalaya border in the Goalpara district of Assam and East Garo hills. At least 15 villages were set on fire in retaliatory violence and the situation is very volatile. Curfew has been imposed in the Eas...

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  Khardang: Caught between ULFA-Army clashes

  In ULFA's attempt at regrouping, the outfit has gone back to Rabha and Garo villages along the Assam-Meghalaya border.