South Garo Hills Updates

11/06/2022

Out of 57,371 students who appeared for the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination, 32,678 came out with flying colours

04/06/2022

Tura, Jun 3: The All Garo Hills Joint Action Committee (AGHJAC), comprising of various NGOs including the GSU, ASWA, GSMC among others have demanded the immediate removal of the NEHU – Tura PVC, G Singhiah failing which it has decided to begin an agitation. Earlier in October last year, the AGHJAC...

27/05/2022

Laban Bengalee Boys’ Higher Secondary School, Shillong and St Anthony’s Higher Secondary School, Shillong bagged the top positions in the Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSSLC) examinations in the science and commerce streams respectively. The results were declared by the Meghalaya ...

25/05/2022

Shillong, May 26: Meghalaya Board Of Secondary Education (MBOSE) will declare results of HSSLC Examination , 2022 ( Science, Commerce and Vocational streams) during the official hours on May 26. The whole result booklet can be downloaded from the MBOSE official website www.mbose.in. No result will b...

23/05/2022

RICE SCAM. POWER SCAM. EDUCATION SCAM. DEMOCRACY SCAM.

We've had ENOUGH of the MEGHALAYA DISASTER ALLIANCE!

23/05/2022

SHILLONG, May 22: The dome which was recently installed at the new Assembly building at Mawdiangdiang, New Shillong Township collapsed on Sunday at around 12.30am. But fortunately there was no casualty in the incident. While speaking to reporters, PWD (Building) Executive Engineer, Ransom Sutnga sai...

21/05/2022

Shillong, May 20: Reliance Jio has announced complimentary four-day unlimited plan – with unlimited free calls within its network and data services upto 1.5 gb per day, along with 100 SMS per day for a period of four days to its customers in the natural-calamities affected states of North East, ac...

20/05/2022

Jowai, May 19: Social Welfare minister, Kyrmen Shylla today urged students to stay away from drugs as these substances shorten one’s life. “I feel so bad to see our youths taking to drugs. This world is so beautiful and we shouldn’t die young. So please stay away from drugs”, the minister sa...

19/05/2022

Tura, May 18: Former MLA of the Congress from the Rongjeng constituency in East Garo Hills (EGH), Sengman Marak, today, joined the ranks of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) in a induction ceremony held in Williamnagar this afternoon. Sengman won from the Rongjeng constituency in 2013 and his....

18/05/2022

The A'chik Holistic Awakening Movement (AHAM) has petitioned President Ram Nath Kovind for a referendum on the border deal signed

17/05/2022

Sunapur-huroi-bridge-collapses-due-to-heavy-rain

  Jowai, May 17: The bridge that connect Sunapur village with other villages close to the Indo-Bangladesh border including Huroi, Hingaria and Borghat in East Jaintia Hills reportedly collapsed due heavy rainfall on Monday night. The collapse of the bridge has completely disconnected the Huroi and ...

16/05/2022

SHILLONG, May 15: Meghalaya is likely to face more spells of inclement weather till May 19, according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) Shillong. In a press statement issued here on Sunday, the IMD said, “Moisture incursion is very likely to occur due to strong lower level Southerly/So...

14/05/2022

Disconnect-between-mlas-and-parties-over-Border-MoU- HYC

SHILLONG: Hynniewtrep Youth Council (HYC) president, Robertjune Kharjahrin, said that all parties except a few independents and National Congress Party (NCP) in the MDA have agreed from day one to the MoU signed between Meghalaya and Assam to resolve the boundary dispute, since the other parties hav...

14/05/2022

Govt-doubtful-about-completing-shillong-dawki-road-on-time-2

SHILLONG: The government is doubtful if the 95 kilometers Shillong-Dawki Road project will be completed within the stipulated period of time. “Very doubtful as in Meghalaya, the working season is hardly for six or seven months and then monsoon continues for the next four-five months. During monsoo...

12/05/2022

GSU bats-for-adhoc-teachers

Tura, May 12: The GSU CEC in Tura has called on Chief Minister Conrad Sangma to accede to the demands of the Meghalaya Adhoc School Teachers and enhanced their salaries as directed. In their appeal submitted through the West Garo Hills Deputy Commissioner to the Chief Minister, the union said that t...

12/05/2022

Tura, May 11: The Sweets and Confectionaries Association in Tura has raised prices of snack items to almost double the previous prices. Consider this, the rate of one samosa, which till a few days ago was Rs 10, has been raised to Rs 20. Similar, has been the case for parathas which now sell for [.....

11/05/2022

10/05/2022

Border-row-Massive-meeting-at-Mallangkona-on-May-16

Tura, May 9: In the wake of the MoU signed recently by Meghalaya and Assam, a massive meeting to discuss the burning border issue is set to take place at Mallangkona in west Khasi Hills on May 16. The meeting will be held at the Mallang Saminaguri Playground at 1 PM. The Malangkona Joint Action […...

10/05/2022

SHILLONG, May 9: With the opposition to legalised gambling in Meghalaya gaining strength, the state Cabinet will now take a call on whether to continue with the proposal or stall it. Deputy Chief Minister, Prestone Tynsong on Monday acknowledged the protests against the government’s move to legali...

09/05/2022

Meghalaya has recorded the highest level of stunting among children in India who are under five years of age. This

09/05/2022

2023-election-will-be-of-turncoats-Ampareen

SHILLONG: Suspended Congress legislator from East Shillong Ampareen Lyngdoh has said that the 2023 assembly elections will be of “turncoats”. “Let me tell you something, I am not the only turncoat. Here everybody is turning coats everywhere, so 2023 is going to be an election of multiple turnc...

07/05/2022

In another blight on the already under-fire Meghalaya Games 2022, several runners in the athletics events did not receive their

06/05/2022

TURA, May 5: Garo Hills continues to be plagued by the extremely poor road connectivity between major towns in all the five districts that form the region. While the national highways (51, 44 and a part of 62) provide roads that still give your body a rest, travel through the other parts of Garo Hil...

05/05/2022

The incomplete road projects in many parts of Garo Hills have attracted the ire of residents of the areas as they complained about many stretches of roads ha...

05/05/2022

Govt-to-let-HC to decide on relocation as last resort

SHILLONG, May 4: In spite of the Harijan Panchayat Committee (HPC) agreeing to relocate Harijans from Them Iew Mawlong, fears about the matter ending in a stalemate persists in the wake of the conditions furnished by the HPC for relocation. In the event that the two parties fail to arrive at an agre...

04/05/2022

Shillong, May 4: Education Minister Lahkmen Rymbui refused to comment on the government’s decision on the demands made by the Federation of All School Teachers Of Meghalaya (FASTOM) for a salary hike and an upgrade from an ad hoc to a deficit system. Rymbui maintained that the government would ref...

04/05/2022

KAS-to-document-khasi-language-culture

SHILLONG: The Khasi Authors’ Society (KAS) will prepare a robust documentation work to strengthen their demand to include Khasi language in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday after the General Council meeting held at Synod College, president of the Khasi Auth...

02/05/2022

02/05/2022

KHNAM-against-second-phase-of-border-talks

SHILLONG, May 1: Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM) legislator from North Shillong, Adelbert Nongrum has asked the government to not go ahead with the second phase of the interstate boundary dispute-resolving process until the lacunae in the first phase are sorted out. “We found ...

30/04/2022

Meghalaya-CM-to-take-up-cuet-issue-with-centre-Rymbui

Shillong, April 30: Chief Minister, Conrad K Sangma is likely to take up the issue of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) with the Union Ministry of Education during his visit to New Delhi on Monday next. Disclosing this on Friday, Education Minister, Lahkmen Rymbui hoped that the CM would be...

29/04/2022

Amid the tactical firing at the security forces' camps in Chhattisgarh since the last 10 days, the intelligence agencies have sounded an alert that the Maoists may execute a bigger attack in the state.

29/04/2022

Almost-100-pc-mortality-rate-in-pigs-389-deaths-recorded

NONGPOH, April 28: The African Swine Fever (ASF), ever since its outbreak, has claimed lives of 389 domestic pigs with almost 100 per cent mortality rate over the last two weeks in Meghalaya, an official said on Thursday. Principal Secretary for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary department, GHP Raju s...

28/04/2022

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the states to reduce VAT on fuel prices, the Congress on Thursday blamed the Centre for high fuel prices and taxes and alleged that the federalism by the government is not cooperative but "coercive."

27/04/2022

Guwahati, April 27: Former Meghalaya chief minister and All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) leader Mukul Sangma on Wednesday said the AITC’s strategy, going into the 2023 Assembly elections in Meghalaya, would be to stay connected with the people at the grassroots, be well prepared to take on the ...

27/04/2022

Gambling-in-state-not-for-locals-Dy CM

SHILLONG, April 26: As apprehension runs rife about the proposed legalised gambling and online gaming in Meghalaya, Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong has said that the proposed gambling facilities are only for tourists while reiterating the government’s intent of not allowing locals to partak...

26/04/2022

Maikhuli is sending out the message LOUD and CLEAR, if only CM Conrad K Sangma would care to hear.

26/04/2022

State-bestowed-award-for-reduction-in-malaria-cases

SHILLONG: On the occasion of World Malaria Day, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare bestowed an award to the state for reduction in number of cases and deaths due to the disease in Meghalaya, on April 25. The state was bestowed with the award for reducing the diseases’ burden from Category 3...

25/04/2022

Members-nominated-for-environment-statutory-bodies

SHILLONG: TTC Marak, former PCCF of Meghalaya has been nominated as Chairman of State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) while Nababrata Bhattacharjee, EIA expert & former Commissioner NGT, has been nominated as Chairman of State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC). The two statutory envi...