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Meghalaya govt to ensure students get fair & accessible opportunity to appear CEUT exams

Shillong, May 13 (UNI) The Meghalaya government on Tuesday said that it remains committed to ensuring that every student from the State gets a fair and accessible opportunity to appear for national-level exams like Common University Entrance Test (CUET).
The government assurance followed after 4,943 of the 12,685 students from Meghalaya who have registered for CUET (UG) 2025 were allotted examination centers outside the state, including one at Port Blair.
The majority — 4,654 candidates — have been assigned to centres in Assam. On the other hand 289 students have their centers outside both Meghalaya and Assam.
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Kolkata, June 22 (UNI) On Sunday, the city once again became the site of one of the subcontinent's most enduring declarations of queer visibility, the 26th Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk, the oldest Pride march in Asia and India's pioneering public demonstration of LGBTQ+ visibility, first held in 1999 as the Friendship Walk.

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Kolkata, June 22 (UNI) At least six people were killed, of them four women and a child, and over dozen sustained multiple wounds in a head-on collision between a Trekker and a dumper in West Bengal's Murshidabad district on Sunday, official sources said.

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22 Jun 2025 | 10:41 PM

Aizawl, June 20 (UNI) A sudden outbreak of leaf folder caterpillars has caused significant damage to jhum cultivation in three villages under Khawzawl district, affecting over 80 farming families, officials from the district Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare office said on Sunday.

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Three held for snatching gold earrings from kids in Meghalaya

22 Jun 2025 | 10:23 PM

Shillong, June 22 (UNI) Meghalaya Police on Sunday arrested three people, including a female juvenile, in connection with alleged snatching of gold earrings from children.

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Modi likely to inaugurate Bairabi-Sairang rail line by July, says NFR official

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22 Jun 2025 | 10:05 PM

Aizawl, June 22 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to inaugurate the much-anticipated Bairabi–Sairang broad gauge railway line, connecting the outskirts of Aizawl city, by July, a senior Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) official said on Sunday.

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