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	East Garo Hills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		East Garo Hills is an administrative district in the state of Meghalaya in India.
		The East Garo Hills district was formed in 1976, after the erstwhile Garo Hills district of Meghalaya was re-organised with a view to bring the administration closer to the people.
		The legendary Garo leader Pa Togan Nengminja Sangma was felled by the British, in skirmish, at Chisobibra, quite close to this place, on 12th December 1837.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Garo_Hills (237 words)

	Meghalaya: meghalaya guardian, asia india meghalaya regional, meghalaya phone
		On 21 January 1972 the Garo, Khasi and Jaintia Hills districts of western Assam became the new state of Meghalaya.
		The ranges of the Garo Hills in the west, Khasi Hills, and Jaintia Hills in the east are not especially high, with Shillong Peak the highest point at 1,965 m.
		The Khasi, the largest group, followed by the Garos, were among those known to the British as "hill tribes".
	wikipedia.openfun.org /wiki/Meghalaya (412 words)

	Williamnagar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Williamnagar is the headquarters of East Garo Hills district in the state of Meghalaya in India.
		Williamnagar, the headquarter-complex of the East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya, one of the states of North-Eastern India was christened after the name of Captain Williamson A. Sangma, the founder Chief Minister of the State of Meghalaya.
		The legendary Garo leader Pa Togan Nengminja Sangma was felled by the British, in skirmish, at Chisobibra, on the outskirts of Williamnagar, on 12th December 1837.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Williamnagar (190 words)

	Meghalaya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		East Khasi Hills is one of the 7 (seven) districts of the State of Meghalaya.
		It is bounded in the North by the Kamrup District of Assam, East by the Karbi Anglong District of Assam, South by the East Khasi Hills and West by the West Khasi Hills District.
		The district is located in the southern part of the state and bounded by West Garo Hills district in the west, East Garo Hills in the north, West Khasi Hills in the east and Bangladesh in the South.
	indiafocus.indiainfo.com /regional/states/meghalaya (604 words)

	District Profile
		The West Garo Hills district lies on the western part of the state of Meghalaya bounded by the East Garo Hills district on the east, the South Garo Hills on the south-east, the Goalpara district of Assam on the north and north-west and Bangladesh on the south.
		The West Garo Hills district is mostly hilly with plains fringing the northern, western and the south-western borders.
		It is the longest river in the Garo Hills districts.
	westgarohills.nic.in /profile.htm (1422 words)

	BASIC FACTS OF MEGHALAYA
		The greater part of Garo Hills range in height from 450 m to 600 m and drop steeply to the Brahmaputra valley on the north and to the plains of Bangladesh on the south.
		In the Garo Hills, the Manda, the Damring and the Janjiram flow towards the north while the Ringge and the Ganol flow in the westerly direction.
		In the Khasi and Jaintia hills, the rivers that flow in a northerly direction include the Khri, the Umtrew, the Umiam, the Umkhem besides the Kupli on the border between Jainita Hills and North Cachar Hills.
	megipr.nic.in /basic_facts.htm (1017 words)

	Garo - A language of Boro-Garo group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Garo speakers are primarily found in Meghalaya particularly in the west and the east Garo hills district.
		In the Brahmaputra valley the Garos are found mainly in the adjoining areas of the south Kamrup district and sporadically found in the Dhubri, Goalpara and the Darrang districts also.
		The negative formation of the verbs in Garo is indicated by prefixing da- ‘not/no’ to the principal verb root.
	www.iitg.ernet.in /rcilts/languages/garo.htm (1186 words)

	GARO HILLS - LoveToKnow Article on GARO HILLS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		, a district of British India, in the hills division of Eastern Bengal and Assam.
		The Garos are probably a section of the great Bodo tribe, which at one time occupied a large part of Assam.
		In 1852 raids by the Garos were followed by a blockade of the hills, but in 1856 they were again in revolt.
	www.1911ency.org /G/GA/GARO_HILLS.htm (852 words)

	meghalaya state tourism, meghalaya india, tourist information on meghalaya, city guide to shillong, cherrapunji, khasi ...
		Forming the western part of the State Of Meghalaya, the Garo Hills are a paradise for naturalists and observers of wildlife.
		Garo hills known for its abundance of flora and fauna should interest naturalists and photographers to capture the variegated facets of life, of a unique range of flora and fauna.
		Clustered on either side by vast evergreen hills of Bamboo, the falls itself appears to be on the sway, leaving the viewer with memories of ecstatic joy.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /meghalaya/garo-hills (928 words)

	Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC)
		The proposed ‘Achik Land’ comprises the present districts of Garo Hills in Meghalaya and a large chunk of Kamrup and Goalpara district of Assam.
		December 15: A woman ANVC cadre, identified as Tresy Sangma, wife of the Mendipather 'area commander' of the outfit, is arrested near Mendipather in the East Garo Hills district.
		April 28: ANVC ‘area command headquarters’ in the Garo hills area is reportedly dissolved and brought under the single command of ‘commander-in-chief’ Jerome Momin.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/states/meghalaya/terrorist_outfits/Anvc.htm (3545 words)

	East Garo Hills District, Williamnagar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Garo Hills district of yesteryear was re-organised during 1976, to carve out a portion of the district for creation of a new district, with a view to bring administration closer to the people.
		The new district was named as the East Garo Hills District.
		It now has all the amenities of a modern town and is the largest growth centre in Garo Hills next to Tura.
	eastgarohills.nic.in (185 words)

	Meghalaya: 9 killed, 89 injured in police firing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The victims included senior civil and police officials who were injured in stone-throwing, when a student demonstration turned violent in two disrticts of Meghalaya's Garo Hills region on Friday, official sources said in Shillong.
		Four, including an elderly person, were killed in West Garo hills district headquarters town of Tura, about 300 kilometres from Shillong, where 64, including 36 police and security force personnel and 28 civilians were injured, they said.
		Another five were killed, when the police and CRPF also fired in the adjoining East Garo hills district headquarters town of William nagar, about 350 kilometres from Shillong, they said. 25 others, including eight security personnel and state officials and 17 civilians, were injured in William nagar.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/sep/30meghalaya.htm (324 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : 9 die in Meghalaya police firing
		The district administration of West Garo Hills and East Garo Hills clamped an indefinite curfew at Tura and Williamnagar.
		The State witnessed a vigorous movement in both Khasi hills and Garo hills on the issue of restructuring of the MBOSE.
		The NGOs of Garo Hills, including the influential GSU, resorted to an agitation to resist any move to bifurcate the board but suspended the protest after the Government formed the committee.
	www.hindu.com /2005/10/01/stories/2005100110200100.htm (558 words)

	BISNET: Business Information Services Network, A Profile on Indian State : Meghalaya: General Imoformation ,IOR, Indian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The capital of the State is Shillong, one of the loveliest hill resorts in the east, fondly known the world over as the`Scotland of the East.
		It is laid out on the sides of a cluster of hills at an average height of about 1496 meters.
		The maximum temperature recorded is 34 Degree Celsius at Tura in West Garo Hills District.
	www.techno-preneur.net /bisnet/states/meghalaya4.htm (383 words)

	INTERNATIONAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Moreover, the Congress high command is of the view that the victory of the party in Garo Hills in the recent bye-election, is to the large extent, due to the efforts of Dr Mukul.
		Thus the post of the Deputy Chief Minister to Dr Mukul is being seen as a "reward" for him in view of the Congress electoral success in Garo hills, especially in the defeat of Mr Purno Sangma's son Conrad.
		He also said the bank of sanction as on April 1, 2003 for East Garo Hills and South Garo Hills District is Rs, 922.451 lakh and Rs 2046.473 lakh respectively and the allotment of fund was Rs 284.29 lakh for East Garo Hills and 541.36 lakh for South Garo Hills.
	www.theshillongtimes.com /A-18-mar.html (5750 words)

	Garo Hills a Ghost Town, Preprations for Burial Begins
		Students from the Garo tribe have been staging protests against planned educational reforms that have created divisions with the Khasi tribe.
		The most notable politician from Garo Hills, India’s former parliament speaker Purno Sangma, said the entire Congress government in Meghalaya should resign.
		The deputy inspector general of the Garo Hills range, Vijay Kumar, told the BBC from Tura that the Garo Students Union (GSU) was not given permission to hold a rally.
	www.24x7updates.com /FullStory-News-Garo_Hills_a_Ghost_Town_Preprations_for_Burial_Begins-ID-200509.html (1411 words)

	Centre declares HNLC, ANVC unlawful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The ANVC was formed in December 1995 to liberate Garo Hills and achieve a new state of 'Achik Land'.
		The outfit is mainly active in East Garo Hills and is maintaining close connection with the NSCN-IM which has been providing guidance to this outfit for its violent activities.
		The HNLC is another secessionist outfit active in East and West Khasi Hill districts of Meghalaya, and particularly active in and around Shillong.
	www.assam.org /2000/11/17d.htm (182 words)

	: Samrakshan : Garo Hills
		We had sent an update during July 2004 mentioning the background of our intervention in the Garo Hills and manner in which it was shaping up during its early days.
		The manager of the NECRMP's West Garo Hills project visited our target villages during October 2004, to assess and guide us on the local community institutions that we are in the process of fostering.
		The Deputy Commissioner of the South Garo Hills district released the book, and teachers from various schools in the district received copies.
	www.samrakshan.org /lc_garo.htm (753 words)

	Garo Hills -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Garo Hills in the west rise abruptly from the Brahmaputra valley to about 1,000 feet and then merge with the Khasi Hills and Jaintia Hills, adjacent highland systems that form a single massif of tablelands...
		Hill, who was born on April 2, 1899, discovered in 1937 that isolated chloroplasts (the green particles responsible for photosynthesis in plants) could produce oxygen from water in the presence of light and an appropriate chemical compound introduced to serve as an electron acceptor, a process that became known as the Hill reaction.
		Playing the position of forward for the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and wearing number 33, Grant Hill was a member of the ”Dream Team,” the basketball team that represented the U.S. in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9036111?tocId=9036111 (736 words)

	ipedia.com: Meghalaya Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The town of Cherrapunjee, south of capital Shillong holds the world record for most rain in a calendar month while the village of Mawsynram, near town of Cherrapunjee holds the distinction of seeing the heaviest yearly rains.
		Culturally, much of the population consists of the Khasis (who call themselves Hynniewtreps or belonging to seven celestial families, in their local language), Jaintias, and Garos (who call themselves Achik in local language), which were among those known to the British as "hill tribes".
		Although the state government has been promoting tourism, terrorist groups (ULFA and NDFB) have been using the Garo Hills recently as a base of operations; the rugged forested terrain and the border with Bangladesh make the hills a good hideout.
	www.ipedia.com /meghalaya.html (339 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Garo Hills, which shares 300 km of the 423 km of international border with Bangladesh, is now the militants' window to the outside world.
		On January 19 and 21, two bombs exploded in Tapadarengchi and Rongsai villages near Damas in East Garo Hills killing four policemen and injuring 12 securitymen.
		Phulbari, a village in West Garo Hills bordering Assam, has emerged as one of the sensitive areas.
	www.the-week.com /24feb15/statescan_article3.html (475 words)

	Commissioned Studies
		Coal deposits can be found in the districts of Garo Hills, West Khasi Hills and Jaintia Hills.
		Kaolin (China clay) is available mainly in the districts of East Garo Hills and Khasi Hills.
		Clay is available in Garo Hills and reserves are estimated at around 68 million tons.
	nerdatabank.nic.in /mlInvPot.htm (566 words)

	Tura city of Meghalaya - India
		a has a picturesque landscape of hills against a backdrop of low-lying plains, with the mighty river Brahmaputra making sweeping curves as it flows towards Bangladesh.
		A historical place where the Garos fought their final battle against the British.
		Headquarters of the East Garo Hills District, it is situated on the banks of the Simsang river.
	www.bharatheritage.in /meghalaya/tura.htm (232 words)

	The Telegraph - North East
		Shillong, May 12: Two battalions of Assam police have entered Kharkutta and Borjora in the East Garo Hills without informing the district administration.
		East Garo Hills deputy commissioner H.N. Marak said “the administration was not informed”, but Meghalaya director-general of police L. Sailo said the assistance of Assam police was welcome under the ongoing operation to flush out militants.
		The PCC criticised the proposal to disband or disarm any organisation before a final settlement is reached.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030513/asp/northeast/story_1963026.asp (181 words)

	VICTORIA CLUB PRESENTS - ABOUT MEGHALAYA INDIA - Miscellaneous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is divided into seven administrative districts namely, Ri-Bhoi district, East Khasi hills district, West Khasi hills district, Jaintia hills district, Garo hills district, West Garo hills district and South Garo hills district.
		Besides the Garo hills, there are Garo settlements in the plains of Assam and Bangladesh.
		The traditional Garo female dress is a piece of cloth around the waist and a blouse or vest.
	maxpages.com /victoriaclub5/ABOUT_MEGHALAYA_INDIA - !http://www.maxpages.com/victoriaclub5/ABOUT_MEGHALAYA_INDIA (3771 words)

	West Khasi Hills District
		Celebration of West Khasi Hills District it is considered befitting to give an insight into the District.
		West Khasi Hills is presently the largest district of Meghalaya was carved out of the erstwhile Khasi Hills District on the 28th October, 1976.
		Jaintia Hills East Khasi Hills Ri Bhoi East Garo Hills West Garo Hills South Garo Hills
	westkhasihills.nic.in (228 words)

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