Demolition debris raise urban waste volume substantially
ROOPAK GOSWAMI
Shillong, Feb 13: Urbanisation and rapid population growth are driving an unprecedented surge in construction and demolition (C&D) waste across India.
While municipal solid...
Meghalaya tea grows its own identity slowly but steadily
ROOPAK GOSWAMI
Nongpoh, Feb 12: On my way from Guwahati to Shillong, I found myself searching for a place to drink Meghalaya tea. Not Assam...
Congress at the Crossroads: Rahul Gandhi’s Defining Choice
By Dipak Kurmi
Two decades in politics is no fleeting apprenticeship; it is an era long enough to test convictions, temper ambition and demand accountability....
Does Valentine’s Day Matter to Our Society?
By Satyabrat Borah
Valentine’s Day has quietly but firmly found a place in public conversation across Indian society, including Assam. Every year on the fourteenth...
USTM faculty member receives ‘Young scientist award’ in Agronomy
Ri-Bhoi, Feb 12: Saikat Majumdar, Assistant Professor, Department of Rural Development at the University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM) has been conferred the...
Mawsynram ‘drying’, thanks to atmospheric particles amid the cloud
Annual rainfall in Mawsynram fell from 10,235 mm in 2014 to 8,838 mm in 2023, a sharp 14% decline in just ten years.
Roopak Goswami
Shillong,...
Litan at a Crossroads: Governance, Conflict and the Search for Stability
By Dipak Kurmi
The hill settlement of Litan in Manipur’s Ukhrul district has once again become a theatre of fire and recrimination, where arson, gunfire...
The Politics of Privacy in Everyday Chats
By Satyabrat Borah
Messaging power shapes the way modern societies speak, argue, trade and even fall silent. What once required physical presence or slow correspondence...
Assam’s Electoral Roll Recast Ahead of 2026 Polls
By Dipak Kurmi
Assam unveiled its final electoral roll following the completion of a statewide Special Revision (SR), a process that election authorities describe as...
Parliament and the Discipline of Disagreement
By Satyabrat Borah
Parliament is not merely a building where laws are passed. It is the living heart of a democracy. It is the one...
Manipur’s Leadership Test Amid Conflict and Recovery
By Dipak Kurmi
On February 3, in a move heavy with political calculation and symbolic intent, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s central leadership selected Yumnam Khemchand...
Meghalaya’s Repeating Mine Tragedy
By Satyabrat Borah
The phrase “distressing regularity” fits Meghalaya’s rat hole mining with painful accuracy because the tragedy does not shock anymore, it repeats. Every...
