Meghalaya

Join duty or faction action: Meghalaya govt warns agitating SSA teachers

Shillong: Meghalaya Education Minister, Lahkmen Rymbui on Wednesday warned the agitating Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) teachers to either join duty or be ready to face action for depriving students of their rights to education.Hundreds of SSA teachers under the...

Govt grants safe passage to HMLC militants for peace talks

Shillong: The Meghalaya and Central government granted a safe passage to militant leaders of the outlawed Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC), who are to initiate peace talks, the outfit representative said on Tuesday.The safe passage to the HNLC leaders,...

Meghalaya: HYC demands CBI probe into Saubhagya Scheme

Shillong: The Hynñiewtrep Youth Council (HYC), a pressure group in Meghalaya on Tuesday urged Union Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba to intervene and direct the Conrad Sangma-led government to give consent and initiate for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe...

Meghalaya potential to develop jackfruit into a Rs 1,000 crore industry, says Conrad Sangma

Tura: Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Tuesday said that Meghalaya has the potential to develop Jackfruit into a Rs. 1000 crore industry which would directly benefit 50,000 farmer families in the State."Meghalaya produces Rs. 400 crore worth of...

4 Meghalaya legislators don’t cast vote in presidential polls

Shillong: Four legislators in the 60-member Meghalaya Assembly abstained from voting in Monday’s presidential election, an election official said.Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Frederick Roy Kharkongor said Health and Family Welfare Minister James Sangma, the elder brother of Chief Minister...

Meghalaya CM expects ‘cross-voting’ in presidential polls

Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Sunday said he expects cross-voting from opposition Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislators in the State on Monday in favour of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu.“All legislators of the MDA...

Garo Labor Corps Day observed in Meghalaya

Tura: Floral tributes were paid to the memory of the brave Garo men who had gone to France to help the Allied Forces during the First World War on occasion of the Garo Labor Corps Day here at the...

35 new Covid-19 cases in Meghalaya

Shillong: The daily Covid-19 case count has been gradually rising over more than a month now in Meghalaya with 35 new cases of infection surging the number of active cases to 182 on Saturday, health officials said. The State has...

Ballot box for presidential polls arrives in Meghalaya

Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Electoral Officer Frederick Roy Kharkongor handed over the key to the strong room to Assembly secretariat officials after ballot box and election materials for the ensuing 16th Presidential election were kept inside it.The ballot box and...

CM Sangma announces projects to strengthen police infra in Meghalaya

Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Wednesday announced projects to strengthen the police infrastructure in the state. The Chief Minister made the announcement during the Superintendents and Commandants of police at the Police Headquarters here. Informing that the Police...

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My objective is to restore peace, says CM Khemchand Jiribam to become a model district

Imphal: Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh said “every community wants peace and we need to remove trust the deficit....