Meghalaya News

Last September, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina as a special guest on the margins of the G20 Summit in New Delhi. It was a gesture of warmth towards a neighbour that India viewed as an…

Shillong, Aug 28: Meghalaya government has entered into an agreement with the National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) which would liaison with the centre, international agencies for several developmental activities of the state. In…

Shillong, Aug 28: Minister in-charge Food Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Comingone Ymbon, on Wednesday informed that the state government has made repeated requests to the Centre for increasing the coverage under the National Food…

Shillong, Aug 28: Meghalaya has invested a total of Rs 840.29 crore with a vision to develop the tourism circuit in the state, positioning it as a high value destination promoting sustainable and responsible tourism that benefits both…

Shillong, Aug 28: Deputy Chief Minister in-charge District Council Affairs, Prestone Tynsong, on Wednesday said the matter relating to the proposed revenue enhancement to the three Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) is under examination.…

Shillong, Aug 28: Deputy Chief Minister in-charge PWD (Roads), Prestone Tynsong, on Wednesday said the Centre has set a target for Meghalaya to construct over 1250 kilometers of road under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)…

Tura, Aug 28: When one thinks of India’s freedom struggle, names like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Subhas Chandra Bose immediately come to mind. However, one would be surprised to know that a man from the remote Garo Hills was…

The World Health Organization (WHO) is investigating a case of poliomyelitis (polio) detected in a two-year-old child from Meghalaya’s Tikrikilla which is situated in West Garo Hills district.The case, detected nearly two weeks ago, has put…

Shillong, Aug 27: Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong on Tuesday informed that the unemployment rates in Meghalaya has decreased over the seven-year period from 2017 to 2024, with unemployment rate at a high of 8.8% in 2017-2018 and…

In a major concern for India’s national security, the caretaker government of Bangladesh on Monday (Aug 26) released the chief of an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist outfit. Jashimuddin Rahmani, the chief of the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT),…