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Meghalaya govt gives Punjabi Lane settlers 15 days to decide on relocation package

August 10, 2024 10:34 pm

Deputy Chief Minister Sniawbhalang Dhar held a closed-door meeting with leaders of the Harijan Panchayat Committee (HPC) to discuss the relocation of the 342 families from the area.

Amid pushback against ‘non-locals’, Meghalaya Cabinet gives in to pressure

August 03, 2024 5:58 pm

Changes approved to existing law – greater scrutiny in checking records of migrant workers, increase in fine for not registering them

April 1, 1983, Forty Years Ago: Voted out

March 31, 2023 11:20 pm

The Meghalaya United Parliamentary Party coalition government, headed by B B Lyngdoh, came to its expected end when the state assembly voted a Congress (I)-sponsored no-confidence motion by 31 votes to 27.

Sangmas lock horns over Meghalaya govt formation, Conrad stakes claim even as Mukul promises more drama

March 05, 2023 10:05 am

Initially on Thursday, two HSDP MLAs’ names were on a list of 32 that NPP chief Conrad Sangma submitted to the Governor. But, the legislators later “withdrew” their support.

Meghalaya CM for use of Khasi and Garo languages in Assembly

July 05, 2022 12:28 pm

The development comes in the wake of several discussions initiated by the state government to get the local languages included in the eighth schedule of the Constitution of India.

Court pulls up Meghalaya government for turning blind eye to rampant illegal coal mining in state

March 09, 2022 4:13 am

The order follows a visit by the three-judge bench, accompanied by the state chief secretary, to Khliehriat in East Jaintia Hills district, the hub of coal mining in Meghalaya.

Eat more beef than chicken, mutton, fish: BJP Minister

July 31, 2021 9:10 pm

Sanbor Shullai, a senior BJP leader who was sworn in as a cabinet minister last week, said everybody was free to eat whatever they want in a democratic country.

Meghalaya further lowers petrol, diesel retail prices by over Rs 5 per litre

February 16, 2021 11:27 pm

The new retail price of petrol will be Rs 85.86 from its current price of Rs 91.26, while the new retail price of diesel will be Rs 79.13 from its present rate of Rs 86.23 in the state capital, said Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma.

MHA asks Meghalaya to speed up border fencing work

April 16, 2014 2:51 am

Meghalaya shares a 443-km border with Bangladesh, of which around 70 km is unfenced and has terrain difficult to patrol.

CMJ promoter swindled Rs 2-cr fund

June 12, 2013 1:13 am

The Meghalaya government has found that the promoter of the controversial CMJ University,Chandra Mohan Jha, had discreetly withdrawn the varsity’s endowment fund worth Rs 2 crore.

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