Meghalaya

13 shops destroyed in major fire breakout at Tura market

Tura, Oct 16: A major fire broke out late Tuesday night destroying an entire chain of shops adjoining Tura super market wiping out goods worth lakhs of rupees. Superintendent of...

SSA teachers’ demands being examined: Rakkam  

State component for SSA teachers’ salary goes up to 30% Shillong, Oct 16: The key demands of agitating SSA...

NPP optimistic of “favourable” outcome for Gambegre and Council Polls

Shillong, Oct 15: NPP leader and cabinet minister Ampareen Lyngdoh has said the party is fully prepared to...

Polls to Tura’s Hindu Shamshan Bhoomi to go ahead after Court steps in

Tura, Oct 14: Delayed for almost a decade, elections are finally taking place for the executive committee of...

NPP hits out at ‘divisive politics’ 

NPP doesn’t represent any community or religious identity: Ampareen Shillong, Oct 14: Setting its tone for the upcoming bye-election...
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Tura’s Favourite teacher honoured by India’s Anglo Indian Society

Tura, Oct 14: Garo Hills most prominent name in education, Tyrone D’Brass has been honoured with “The Stracey Reach For The Stars Award” by...

Immersion of Durga idols marks end of Puja celebrations

Shillong, Oct 13: Durga idols were immersed in rivers on Vijaya Dashami day marking the culmination of Durga Puja celebrations across Meghalaya on Sunday. In...

State-level workshop on mental health held at NEIGRIHMS

Shillong, Oct 11: More than 600 nursing officers from across the state attended a workshop on ‘It is Time to Prioritize Mental Health in...

CM calls for painting of boundary walls in towns

Tura, Oct 11: Chief minister Conrad Sangma, who along with the whole state administrative machinery had been preoccupied with flood and landslide mitigation for...

Book lovers pick up Southeast Asian authors by the dozen at Shillong Book Fair

SHILLONG, OCT 11: Readers in Shillong are showing an appetite for books by Japanese authors. Several stalls at the 2nd edition of the Shillong...

A Reckoning of Our Own Making: ‘We Had More Rains, But Never Disasters Like This

ROOPAK GOSWAMI Shillong, Oct 11:  As the clouds opened up in the Garo Hills, a torrent of rain unleashed devastation like never before. What followed...

Govt aware of SSA teachers’ demands: Paul

Shillong, Oct 9: SSA teachers, who have been staging sit-in protest for the past nine days, on Wednesday took out a protest march demanding...

Rain fury damages around 350 houses in 250 villages

Shillong, Oct 9: The devastating landslides and floods caused by torrential rains damaged nearly 350 houses in around 250 villages besides claiming as many...

Musical storytelling draws students to NBT book fair in city

Shillong, Oct 9: The 2nd edition of Shillong Book Fair, organised by the National Book Trust (NBT) under the Ministry of Education, is getting...

CM sees destruction scale, hands over ex-gratia to victims’ kin  

Stress laid for flood management initiatives, flood survey   TURA, Oct 9: Shocked by the scale of  destruction perpetrated by nature, which snuffed out 15...

‘Sikkim model can’t be replicated in state’  

Rural tourism stakeholders write to Paul Lyngdoh   Shillong, Oct 8: Meghalaya Rural Tourism Forum (MRTF), a body of stakeholders of rural tourism in the...

Woman’s body retrieved 

Tura, Oct 8: Body of a 60-year-old woman Silje R Marak (60), last of the seven members of a family buried alive in a...
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