Itanagar: After Meghalaya, drone-based services were launched in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday to deliver medicines and other healthcare essentials in the remote, mountainous and far-flung areas to save time and costs, officials said. Gurugram-based ‘TechEagle’ has developed the drone-based services and launched it in collaboration with the Arunachal Pradesh government and World Economic Forum. The … Read more
Security personnel stand guard near a forest office, a day after it was vandalised and burnt down by miscreants following violence on the Assam-Meghalaya boundary. | Photo Credit: PTI A day after five Meghalaya villagers and an Assam forest guard were killed in a firing incident on the Assam-Meghalaya border, a Union Home Ministry official … Read more
File photo of TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee. | Photo Credit: PTI The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on November 18, 2022 asserted that it was not a party of “outsiders” in poll-bound Meghalaya pointing out that former Chief Minister Purno A. Sangma had contested an election in the State on its ticket. Rivals, specifically the National People’s … Read more
The HSPDP wants Meghalaya to be divided between the Garo community and the Khasi-Jaintia communities. GUWAHATI A regional constituent of the ruling alliance has taken the lead in pushing for the bifurcation of poll-bound Meghalaya. Meghalaya is one of three north-eastern States where Assembly elections are scheduled to be held in February and March 2023. … Read more
Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday approved a slew of new road projects, valued at Rs 68,000 crore, in four Northeastern states to make international standard surface connectivity. Addressing a late-night press conference after reviewing various national highway projects in the region, Gadkari said that new projects are worth Rs … Read more
In Bangladesh, the administration directed authorities to keep all educational institutes shut on Tuesday in view of the cyclone In Bangladesh, the administration directed authorities to keep all educational institutes shut on Tuesday in view of the cyclone Disaster Management Authorities in Meghalaya have been kept on high alert as Cyclone Sitrang is likely to … Read more
Despite opposition from several quarters Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Saturday has ruled out repealing of the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021. Sangma said, “If the act repealed then there would be nothing to regulate the gaming. Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021 is vital to regulate the existing gambling parlours, which … Read more
With Assam Meghalaya border pact resulting in political slugfest, National President of National People’s Party (NPP) Conrad K. Sangma said that people of the State have waited for 50 long years and it was not the easiest decision but whatever was done was done in the in the interest of the people of the State. … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that Manipur deserves peace and freedom from closures and blockades. He said that under the double-engine government, Manipur is getting long awaited facilities like Railways. In his recorded speech on the 50th statehood day celebrations of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura on Friday, Modi said that sons and daughters of Manipur … Read more
In a major setback to Congress in Meghalaya, speaker Metbah Lyngdoh has recognized the merger of 12 members of the Indian National Congress Legislature Party with the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). The assembly bulletin stated, “On 29th November, 2021, ten petitions were filed and submitted to me by Dr. M. Ampareen Lyngdoh, MLA against … Read more