Meghalaya

Shillong: Another under-trial prisoner (UTP), who had escaped along with five inmates from the Jowai district jail and correctional home, was re-arrested on Tuesday by Meghalaya police. Rikmenlang Lamare, the jail-breaker was captured from Chiabnai village in West Jaintia Hills...

Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Tuesday said that the government will examine the need to extend some relief to houses damaged by the incidents of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blasts.“I have taken note of the suggestion and...

Shillong: The Vice-Chancellor of the North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, Professor Prabha Shankar Shukla called on President Droupadi Murmu, who is also the Visitor of the University last week at Rashtrapati Bhawan and invited her to visit the University,...

Shillong:  Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Tuesday introduced the Meghalaya Ropeway Bill, 2022. Under the Bill, the tourism department intends to set up a car cable ropeway for passengers called the Shillong Peak Ropeway to promote tourism in the...

Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma told the assembly on Monday that the state government was awaiting the response of the Central Government on the implementation of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) in the state.Replying to a Zero Hour...

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...