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...
Long wait for Meghalaya to have landslide forecasting facility
ROOPAK GOSWAMI
Guwahati, Oct 7: Meghalaya would have to wait for some more years to get the facility of landslide forecasting.
Meghalaya has numerous faults, shear...
SDRF aids in relief distribution
Shillong, Oct 7: Besides carrying out search and rescue operations in the flood-affected Garo Hills, the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) has also continued...
Garo Hills disaster death toll rises to 15
Man killed after uprooted tree falls on car, mother-daughter buried in landslide
By Cosmos Sangma
Tura, Oct 6: The death toll from the monsoon fury in...
Women and children hardest hit by nature’s fury
Tura, Oct 6: In any unrest, war or natural calamity, women and children have always been the most vulnerable targets and victims.
This week's floods...
