Meghalaya

Shillong: The Meghalaya Assembly on Monday rejected by voice vote a bill seeking repeal of the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021.The Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming (Repealing) Bill, 2022 was introduced by the lone Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement...

Shillong: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator, Alexander Laloo Hek has petitioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi to institute an inquiry into the process of awarding the contract for the construction of the Meghalaya Assembly building and the subsequent...

Shillong: Four jail-breakers were lynched by a mob in a forest area along the boundary of Thadmuthlong and Shangpung village on Sunday in Meghalaya’s West Jaintia Hills district, a police official said.The four were among the six jailbirds, who...

Shillong: Six prisoners, including a murder convict and two murder accused escaped from Jowai district prison and correctional home in Meghalaya’s West Jaintia Hills after overpowering four prison staff and one armed police constable on Saturday afternoon, an official...

Shillong: Meghalaya’s opposition Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday demanded an independent probe into the killing of Cheristerfield Thangkhiew, the surrendered general secretary of the outlawed Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC).The demand for an independent probe by the National...

Shillong: A commission of inquiry, in its report tabled in the Meghalaya Assembly on Friday, has said Cheristerfield Thangkhiew, the surrendered general secretary of the outlawed Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) was killed in a “reckless operation using excessive...

Shillong: A Bill to establish a National Law University (NLU) of Meghalaya was introduced in the state assembly by Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Friday.“The government has decided that teaching and research facilities available in the law university can...

Shillong: The Hynñiewtrep Integrated Territorial Organization (HITO), a pressure group in Meghalaya, on Thursday petitioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) inquiry into the alleged scams in the state.In...

Shillong: The Meghalaya Government on Thursday handed over the letter of allotment for 10 acres of land in the New Shillong Township for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to set up a permanent base.In a video statement released...

Shillong: Eighty-five cent of the primary health centres (PHCs) in matrilineal Meghalaya have Transit Homes for expecting mothers, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma said after inaugurating yet another such facility under the CM’s Safe Motherhood Scheme at the community health...