Chief Minister of Meghalaya Conrad K Sangma released the final report on Forest Survey and Mapping for Meghalaya Using Hybrid System to Analyse Carbon Financing and Phyto-Diversity Heat Map. R S Gill, ...

The Shillong Times first appeared as a tabloid weekly on 10th August 1945 under the editorship of Late Sudhindra Bhusan Chaudhuri. In 1958 it was converted to a Daily. Owing to financial constraints, ...

A couple of weeks ago, a friend, Valentine Sohtun, shared a 2015 article with me titled ‘An Ethnographic Exploration of the Lyngam Ethnic Community in Bangladesh’ written by Nur Mohammad Majumder, Lye ...

NEW DELHI, Dec 16: Padma Shri Patricia Mukhim, Editor of The Shillong Times, was on Monday awarded the prestigious ‘Saahas Shrestha: Shero of Courage’ honour for her extraordinary contributions to ...

A working paper titled “Relative economic performance of Indian states over 1960- till 1923-24” released recently from the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) casts the economy of ...

SHILLONG, Nov 12: Meghalaya has witnessed progress in reducing Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), as per the Health Management Information System. As of January this year, the state recorded 107 maternal ...

The dorbar-shnongs had existed in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills as modern indigenous grassroots institutions before the formation of the state of Meghalaya. However, they functioned only as informal and ...

SHILLONG, Nov 7: The High Court of Meghalaya on Thursday allowed NHIDCL and the contractor concerned to proceed with building the first part or package of the proposed Shillong-Dawki highway with all ...

Rabindranath Tagore and Rudyard Kipling never met each other but their admirers often hailed them together in the newsstand. Both are contemporary Indians. Tagore (1861-1941) and Rudyard Kipling (1865 ...

By Bhogtoram Mawroh A couple of weeks ago, I cycled to Umsning to eat lunch at a local food shop known for serving indigenous dishes. This particular shop, run by a Catholic family, is well-known for ...

SHILLONG, Oct 7: The Meghalaya Rural Tourism Forum (MRTF) said on Monday that the Sikkim taxi model cannot be replicated in Meghalaya as the landlocked Himalayan state is protected because of its ...

SHILLONG, Sep 19: In a landmark initiative, the state government has partnered with Ummeed Child Development Centre (CDC), a leading organisation working with the WHO’s Nurturing Care Framework, to ...