At a time when demand for a separate Khasi Jaintia state is being raised in certain quarters in Meghalaya, an organisation from the Garo Hills, which calls itself the Achik Holistic Awakening Movement, is pressing for an additional Secretariat and Winter Assembly in Tura. In a release issued yesterday, the organisation said that the state […]

The Indian women’s hockey team signed off on the Women’s Asia Cup 2022 with a hard-fought 2-nil victory over China during the third-place match in Muscat on Friday. Goals by Sharmila Devi and Gurjit Kaur helped the Savita-led side end the continental tournament with a third-place finish. It was a neck-and-neck start to the match, […]

In a bid to create a viable household income source while utilising bamboo, the Tripura Bamboo Mission has, for the first time, has introduced a single-phase bamboo round stick producing machine. In a programme organised by the District Industries Centre in the state’s West District, these new machines were distributed among the beneficiaries in the […]

The Congress party is confident that it is going to steal the show in the upcoming Manipur Polls. With a pre-poll alliance formed with five left-wing parties to combat the might of the BJP, the Manipur unit of Congress is moving ahead to contest the two-phase state polls. Talking on the pre-poll alliance with the […]

The mystery over the migratory birds’ ‘carcasses’ recovered in Tripura’s Sukh Sagar Lake has got murkier. Forest officials, who went to the site to recover the dead avians which were reportedly in the hundreds, were not able to retrieve a single sample. Principal Chief Conservator of Forest Tripura Dr DK Sharma said that the forest […]

More and more rebel groups in Assam are coming back to the mainstream. Two militant outfits from Assam’s Barak Valley–Bru Liberation Army Union (BLAU) and the United Democratic Liberation Army (UDLA) are now set to bid ‘farewell to arms’ and return to the mainstream. Both the militants’ outfits are soon set to surrender their weapons […]

The chorus against illegal coal mining is only growing louder in Meghalaya day by day. After the UDP and TMC, now the Meghalaya BJP which is an ally of the NPP-led MDA state government, has joined the chorus in demanding an independent probe into the allegations of rampant illegal coal mining and transportation in the […]

S Sarjubala Devi, an amateur boxer from Manipur who represented India at the 2016 Rio Olympics is now all set to make her foray into professional boxing. She has signed a contract with Mujtaba Kamal, a well-known Indian boxing promoter, and Grassroot Boxing Promotions and Management in Imphal. The 28-year-old pugilist will make her professional […]

With less than a month left for the Assembly elections in the state, Independent MLA from Jiribam Ashab Uddin resigned as an MLA and joined the Janata Dal (United) yesterday. Ashab Uddin joined the party in presence of JDU National President Rajiv Ranjan in Imphal. Earlier on Wednesday evening, Thangmeiband MLA Khumukcham Joykisan, who was […]

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma is all set to meet his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma in Guwahati today for a decisive discussion on the first 6 areas of difference. As per sources, the meeting is set to take place at about 5 pm. Talking to media persons after a cabinet meeting in Shillong yesterday, […]