Meghalaya

Shillong: Padma Shri awardee Neil Nongkynrih, founder of Shillong Chamber Choir, passed away on Wednesday evening in Reliance Foundation hospital in Mumbai, a family member said. “Neil was unwell for sometime. He had a septic shock brought about by a perforated ulcer,...

Shillong: Five persons, including four women in Meghalaya have tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19, health officials said on Tuesday. Health and Family Welfare Minister James Sangma said all the five patients are Meghalaya’s first cases of the new...

Shillong: District authorities in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills, which includes this State capital Shillong has banned official, public and political gatherings and also put a curb on the number of people attending weddings and reimposed night curfew. The restriction was imposed...

Shillong: Meghalaya police are yet to arrest the miscreants who had desecrated two idols at Marwari Samshan Bhoomi area (crematorium), Mawbah, on Sunday night. “We are yet to ascertain the miscreants who are behind this criminal act (vandalism of the idols....

Shillong, Jan 3 (UNI) Meghalaya and Assam on Monday exchanged reports submitted by their respective regional committees on the boundary disputes in presence of Chief Minister Conrad Sangma here at State Secretariat here. The reports were exchanged between Meghalaya Deputy Chief...

Shillong: Meghalaya has imposed a series of fresh Covid-related restrictions from January 5 (Wednesday) in view of the rapid surge of Omnicron cases throughout the country.Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Monday undertook a comprehensive review of the Covid-19 situation in...

Raymond KharmujaiShillong: The year had begun with the rollout of vaccines against COVID-19,which came as a major relief to the people of this mountainous state of Meghalaya. The Northeastern state saw a gradual decline in cases of infection and...

Shillong: A wanted militant of Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) on Thursday surrendered before Border Security Force (BSF) authorities in Meghalaya. Junel Tongper alias June, who was the “East Jaintia Hills Area Commander” of the HNLC joined the mainstream in a surrender...

Shillong, Dec 30 (UNI) Thirteen new COVID-19 cases added up to 61 active cases and four more cases of recovery from the viral infection surged the number of recovered cases to 83,272 on Thursday in Meghalaya, which has so far...

Shillong, Dec 27 (UNI) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma has welcomed the move of the central government to constituting a committee to look into the withdrawal of the controversial Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) in Nagaland.“Welcome the move...