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Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurates Northeast’s largest spice processing plant in Meghalaya

June 19, 2026 admin

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurates Northeast India’s largest organic spice processing plant in Meghalaya’s Ri-Bhoi district in the company of Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma and his Sikkim counterpart Prem Singh Tamang on Friday, June 19, 2026. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday (June 19, 2026) inaugurated the…

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Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma Rules Out Uniform Civil Code implementation

January 30, 2025 admin

Guwahati: Uttarakhand has become the first state in the country to implement UCC, but the Chief Minister of another hill state has ruled out a similar step. The implementation of Uniform Civil Code is neither practical nor appropriate, given the country’s diverse cultural and tribal communities, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma said today. He, however,…

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Over 30 Million Years Old Pre-Historic Fossil Stolen From Meghalaya Village

January 29, 2025 admin

A rare pre-historic fossil, possibly 35 to 40 million years old, has been stolen from a village in Meghalaya, leaving people in shock and outraged. The fossil was discovered in May last year in the state’s Tolegre village in South Garo Hills. The Geological Survey of India (GSI) had examined the site last year and…

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Meghalaya Introduces Game-Based Learning For Children: Chief Minister

January 28, 2025 admin

Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Tuesday said that the government is introducing game-based learning for the children in the state. Inaugurating the Model Creative Learning Centre (MCLC) at Dobakkol in Tura, he said, “It is important that a child is introduced to game-based learning which will enable them to develop their perceptual, motor,…

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Curfew In Meghalaya Village As Mob Clashes With Cops

January 20, 2025 admin

Shillong: Curfew was clamped in Mawkynrew village in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills district on Monday after a mob clashed with police personnel while allegedly attempting to vandalise the property of under-construction Ramakrishna Mission School, officials said. A police official said that the Ramakrishna Mission School at Mawkynrew was set up in 2022 after a no-objection…

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Trekking twist to Meghalaya Cabinet meeting

January 11, 2025 admin

Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma with Hally War, the man who initiated the weaving of the living root bridge at Sohra, which is popularly known as Cherrapunjee. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement For the first time, trekking became part of the Cabinet meeting drill for the Ministers in Meghalaya. On Saturday (January 11, 2025), Chief…

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Remove Vice-Chancellor, Huge Students Protest In Meghalaya’s North Eastern Hill University

November 6, 2024 admin

North Eastern Hill University students are on an indefinite hunger strike Shillong: Tension continues to rise at North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) in Meghalaya’s capital Shillong as students have launched an indefinite hunger strike outside the Vice Chancellor’s office, demanding the removal of Vice Chancellor Prabha Shankar Shukla. The hunger strike, led by the NEHU…

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Six Years After Massive Violence, Shillong’s Punjabi Lane Road Opens

November 4, 2024 admin

Shillong’s Punjabi Lane, also known as Them Iew Mawlong, is open for traffic after a six-year gap following the 2018 unrest . The Motphran-Mawlong route closure was initially implemented in response to security concerns after the unrest in Them Iew Mawlong in 2018. Vehicular movement has officially resumed on the Mawlonghat to Bimola junction, the…

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Why is WHO cagey about publishing Meghalaya polio case details

October 26, 2024 admin

If India’s Health Ministry and the Meghalaya State government have till date refused to reveal all the details of the polio case in a two-year-old boy in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district who was found with symptoms of polio in the first week of August this year, the WHO too has been cagey about making…

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India Likely To Hand Over Body Of Top Bangladesh Awami League Leader Today

August 30, 2024 admin

The body, discovered on 26 August, 2024, has been identified through a Bangladeshi passport. Guwahati: The body of Bangladeshi Awami League leader Ishaque Ali Khan Panna, a former General Secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and a key member of the Awami League, is likely to be handed over to Bangladesh High Commission officials…

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