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Meghalaya lady receives ‘Teachers’ Award’

Shillong: Gamchi Timre R. Marak from a remote rural area in Meghalaya Monday received the National Awards to Teachers, which she calls a “hard-earned title” and her lifetime achievement. Marak was among the 45 selected awardees to be honoured by...

NEHU signs nine MoUs on Teacher’s Day

Shillong: The North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) on Monday signed memoranda of understandings (MoU) with nine Organisations, which included universities, institutes of research and higher learning and start-up industries in the presence of Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik to strengthen...

Fresh impasse in Tripura over Bru settlement

Agartala: Even after the deadline, the Tripura government has not been able to resettle almost half of the Bru families displaced from western Mizoram and sheltered in six camps of North Tripura in 1997 following a communal clash.As per...

Assam madrassas to follow new SOPs

Guwahati: The Assam Police said a committee will be formed to ensure enforcement of the rules and regulations in the madrassas.Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma recently said that the government is now preparing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for...

Sikkim: Limboo-Tamangs urge Subba to disclose memoranda on seat reservation

Gangtok: The Limboo-Tamang Voluntary Committee on Sunday urged Sikkim MP Indra Hang Subba to make public all memoranda about reserving seats in the state assembly for the Limboo and Tamang communities.'We have requested MP Subba to disclose all memoranda...

Covid: Seven positive cases reported in Manipur Sunday

Imphal: In the last 24 hours leading up to 5 pm of Sunday, seven persons tested positive and one person recovered in Manipur.During the same period, there was no report of any Covid-related death in the State, as...

Meghalaya legislator urges Meghwal for recognition of Khasi, Garo languages

Shillong: The demand for the constitutional recognition of the unique indigenous Khasi and Garo languages of Meghalaya was yet again raised with the Centre, this time by suspended Congress legislator Dr. Mazel Ampareen M Lyngdoh, who urged the Union...

BJP threatens to withdraw support to Meghalaya government

Shillong: The BJP on Saturday threatened to withdraw support to the National People’s Party (NPP)-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government following the spate of allegations against the government.“We may withdraw support from the government within one month. We...

Former Meghalaya police officer joins BJP

Shillong: Former Meghalaya-Assam cadre IPS officer Mariahom Kharkrang on Saturday joined the BJP at the party’s Meghalaya headquarters in Shillong in the presence of Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal and BJP General Secretary (Organisation) B. L. Santosh.Kharkrang took voluntary...

Tripura CPM accuses govt of propagating false claims of employment

Agartala: The opposition CPI-M charged the BJP-led government in Tripura with raising false claims of providing government jobs and offering employment opportunities to the youths to mislead the people ahead of assembly elections to be held barely after five...

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CM honours meritorious government school students

Imphal: Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh attended the Awards Ceremony of the “Incentive to Government School Students Who Excel...