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Meghalaya assures safety & security to Assam Petroleum Mazdoor Union

Shillong: The Meghalaya government on Thursday has requested the Assam Petroleum Mazdoor Union (APMU) to immediately call off their refusal to load petroleum products and assured safety and security of oil tankers transiting through the districts of the state.APMU...

Internet suspension extended in parts of Meghalaya for another 48 hours

Shillong: The Meghalaya government on Thursday further extended the suspension of mobile internet services in seven districts in eastern part of the state for another 48 hours from 10.30 am till November 26 to "prevent any disturbance of peace...

Black flag hoisted to protest firing by Assam police

Shillong: Black flags were raised across Meghalaya on Wednesday to protest the killing of five civilians at Mukroh village in West Jaintia Hills district by Assam police.The Khasi Students’ Union hoisted black flags throughout the state capital and also...

Meghalaya TMC leader describes killing of six people by Assam Police as ‘genocide’

Shillong: Leader of Opposition in the Meghalaya Assembly and Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator Dr. Mukul Sangma has termed the killing of six people at Mukroh village in State’s West Jaintia Hills district by Assam Police as ‘genocide’. The former Chief...

Meghalaya cancels festivals

Shillong:  The Meghalaya government has cancelled all the upcoming official festivals in the state, including the popular Cherry Blossom festival, owing to the firing incident at Mukroh in West Jaintia Hills district on Tuesday in which six persons have...

Mukroh incident not ethnic issue, but border dispute: NESO

Shillong: Condemning the firing incident in Meghalaya’s Mukroh village in which six persons lost their lives, the North East Students’ Organisation (NESO), an apex body of eight influential students' organisations of the region, on Tuesday said the incident is...

Meghalaya CM briefs Assam counterpart on violence

Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Tuesday informed that he has spoken to his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma regarding the death of five civilians and one Assam forest guard during a firing incident at Mukroh village in...

Meghalaya: Six died in violent clashes mobile internet suspended

Shillong: Six persons have died and two were seriously injured and two others seriously injured following violent clashes between villagers and Assam police on Tuesday morning at Mukroh village in Meghalaya’s West Jaintia Hills district, a police official said. Of...

Meghalaya examines proposals to put up conveyor belts to Bangladesh

Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Monday said that the State government is examining proposals to put up conveyor belts for exporting of goods to Bangladesh."We strongly feel that this conveyor belt system will allow us to ensure...

Abhishek Banerjee blows poll bugle, confident to wrest power in Meghalaya

Tura: Sounding the poll bugle in Meghalaya, Trinamool Congress (TMC) national General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee on Friday exuded confidence of his party wresting power in the hill state after the assembly elections next year.“The shoddy alliance of Meghalaya Democratic...

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3-Day capacity building workshop under RAMP scheme concludes successfully

Imphal: The Central Forest Division, Forest Department Manipur, successfully conducted a 3-Day Capacity Building Workshop on Hospitality, Wildlife Tourism...