Global News Post: Meghalaya

Independence Day Boycott Call: India's State Tightens Security

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">IMPHAL, India (NNN-Bernama) -- Security measures were tightened in north-east Indian Manipur state in view of Wednesday's Independence Day boycott call given by major insurgent organisations with police forces intensifying patrol at the capital complex here to intercept movement of armed ultras. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Police and para-military forces were deployed at all vulnerable points and at the complexes of important installations while passers-by at various placeswere being checked to detect movement of anti-social elements, Press Trust of India quoted officials as saying on Tuesday. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">They said security measures were also intensified at all the district headquarters to conduct the Independence Day celebrations smoothly and to prevent any untoward incident. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Police commandos and personnel were also posted at all the important and centrally-located places round the clock. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">All police and security posts in the state have also been instructed to step up checking of passers-by and to move out of their posts to search any suspected objects within their jurisdiction, they said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The coordination committee (CORCOM) of seven major insurgent outfits including United National Liberation (UNLF), Revolutionary People's Front (RPF), People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) and Kanglei Yawol Kann Lup (KYKL) have called for boycott of celebrations saying that Manipur was 'forcibly merged' with the union in 1949. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In a joint statement here, the CORCOM appealed to the people to boycott the functions and remain indoors during the celebrations. --NNN-BERNAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Independence Day Boycott Call: India's State Tightens Security

IMPHAL, India (NNN-Bernama) -- Security measures were tightened in north-east Indian Manipur state in view of Wednesday's Independence...

India: Khasi Withdrawn from UNESCO'S Endangered Language List

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">SHILLONG (NNN-Bernama) -- The Khasi language of Meghalaya has been withdrawn from UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger as it is now considered "safe".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The language -- spoken by some 900,000 people in the state -- is no longer in danger, UNESCO declared on its website Friday, Press Trust of India reported.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The language, of the Mon-Khmer linguistic branch, had it status reassessed by the Atlas editorial board, which concluded that Khasi may be classified as "safe" on UNESCO's scale of language vitality.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Khasi is spoken in the Khasi and Jaintia hills and is also known as Khasia, Khassee, Cossyah or Kyi.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Recognised as the "associate official language" in Meghalaya since 2005, Khasi is widely used in several domains such as primary and secondary education, radio, television and religion, the UNESCO official website said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Admitting that "some dialects" of Khasi are "dying" as they make way for the standardised variant, the editorial board said it was pleased to acknowledge that "the future of this language seems to be assured."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Interactive Atlas has an online version since 2009 and is regularly updated based on feedback from linguists and speakers of endangered languages.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To date, the Atlas lists 2473 languages in danger from around the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is classified in five degrees of vitality -- vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered, critically endangered, and extinct. -- NNN-BERNAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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India: Khasi Withdrawn from UNESCO'S Endangered Language List

Photo © flickr.com/fixing-shadows SHILLONG (NNN-Bernama) -- The Khasi language of Meghalaya has been withdrawn from UNESCO's Atlas ...

Militants Kill 5 Persons in India''s Meghalaya State

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">NEW DELHI (NNN-KUNA) -- As many as five persons, including four cops and a civilian, were killed and two other cops injured in India's north-eastern state of Meghalaya in a gunfight between security personnel and militants hiding on a hilltop, reported the country's English daily Hindustan Times' portal on Tuesday.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The gunfight took place at Nengpatchi area of 'East Garo Hills' district of the state. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Though no militant outfit has so far claimed responsibility for the ambush, it is suspected that it was the handiwork of militant outfit - "Garo National Liberation Army" (GNLA). -- NNN-KUNA</div></div>

Militants Kill 5 Persons in India''s Meghalaya State

NEW DELHI (NNN-KUNA) -- As many as five persons, including four cops and a civilian, were killed and two other cops injured in India's ...