Meghalaya

Shillong: Absconding Meghalaya Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Vice President Bernard N. Marak, who is allegedly running a prostitution racket from his farmhouse in West Garo Hills district, has finally been arrested by Uttar Pradesh police on Tuesday evening, police...

Shillong: A local court in Meghalaya on Monday issued a non-bailable warrant of arrest against state BJP Vice President Bernard Marak, who has been accused of running a brothel in one of his farmhouses at Edenbari, an official said. Marak,...

Shillong: Meghalaya’s opposition Congress party has demanded an independent probe into “nefarious activities” at the farmhouse of state BJP leader Bernard Marak.State Congress vice-president Ronnie V. Lyngdoh on Sunday said that the police raid at Marak’s farmhouse on Saturday...

Shillong: Meghalaya on Sunday reported 88 new Covid-19 cases, taking the overall tally to 94,851, while the death toll remained unchanged at 1600 as no fresh fatality was reported in the state, a health official said.The number of people...

Shillong: A farmhouse of Meghalaya BJP vice-president, Bernard N. Marak, which was earlier a designated camp of a disbanded breakaway faction of the A'chik National Volunteers Council (ANVC-B) the militant outfit in Garo Hills was being used as a...

Shillong: For the second consecutive day, a three-month-old baby boy and a 73-year-old woman succumbed to Covid19 in Meghalaya on Friday, taking the number of fatalities to 1,599, health officials said.The State's cumulative count also climbed up to 94,668...

Shillong: The Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) teachers in Meghalaya on Thursday called off their indefinite sit-in-protest after the state government’s assurance regarding their pending salaries.Deputy Chief Minister Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong, invited the agitating teachers under the banner of...

Shillong:  A three-month-old baby girl, and a 33-year-old man died of coronavirus-related complications in Meghalaya on Thursday, taking the number of fatalities to 1,597, health officials said.The State's cumulative count also climbed up to 94,572 with 61 people testing...

Shillong: Droupadi Murmu on Thursday scripted history by becoming the first tribal to be elected as the President after two tribal leaders from the Northeastern state of Meghalaya had failed to make it to occupy the Raisina Hills.Murmu, a...

Shillong: The Khasi Students' Union (KSU) on Wednesday filed an FIR against the authors of a school textbook for claiming that the official spoken languages of Meghalaya are Bengali, Nepali and Marathi instead of the indigenous Khasi or Garo.The...