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Article: India : KSU suspends blockade against uranium mining.
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- October 31, 2009
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Byline: shiv03
The Khasi Students Union (KSU), a dominant student-youth body, has temporarily suspended its road blockade against uranium mining in Meghalaya after the government invited it for talks, officials said here Thursday. The KSU was to begin its third phase of a night road blockade Thursday to protest proposed uranium mining in the West Khasi Hills district of southern Meghalaya. But it has relented.
"We are ready to talk to the state government to solve the impasse over the uranium mining issue," KSU secretary Augustine Jyrwa told reporters after a central body meeting of the organisation. Chief Minister D.D. Lapang Wednesday said the ...