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Tribal council rejects Blinkit's trading license permission in MeghalayaMeghalaya's Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council has denied Blinkit a trading license, citing concerns over its business model impacting...- Heavy rains lash Meghalaya; landslide severs connectivity to Laitlyngkot villageMeghalaya is experiencing heavy rainfall, with Mawsynram recording a staggering 530 mm in 24 hours. A major landslide has completely blocke...
- Forget concrete, steel or wood. One state in India, has ‘living bridges’ which last for 500 yearsMeghalaya's Khasi community crafts extraordinary 'living bridges' from the roots of rubber fig trees, a testament to natural engineering. T...
- No plastic or metal, only bamboo and palm leaves: Meghalaya’s 100-year-old umbrellas do not have a handle but can protect you from heavy rainsMeghalaya, India's wettest region, faces heavy monsoon rains. Locals have a unique solution: knups, hand-crafted rain shields made from bam...
- Sanjeevani Booti? Scientists find a 'lost' blueberries in Himalayas after nearly 200 years; locals say it boosts...A Himalayan berry species, 'Vaccinium piliferum', thought lost for 188 years, has been rediscovered in Arunachal Pradesh. This endangered w...
- Conrad K. Sangma receives rescued Meghalaya youth at Guwahati airportMeghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma personally welcomed Genal R. Marak home after a harrowing three-year ordeal in Jammu and Kashmir....
- Sonam Raghuvanshi, accused of killing husband during honeymoon in Meghalaya, granted bailA court in Meghalaya has granted bail to Sonam Raghuvanshi. She is accused of orchestrating her husband Raja Raghuvanshi's murder. The inci...
- Meghalaya exports 20 metric tons of Khasi Mandarin to DubaiThe Directorate of Horticulture and Meghalaya State Agricultural Marketing Board orchestrated the flagging off ceremony of 20 metric tons o...
- Dispatch of polling parties begins in Meghalaya for assembly electionsIn South Garo Hills, the first polling party to leave early morning is the team going to Rongcheng Polling Station where they will need to ...
- Assam continues to 'restrict' movement of people to Meghalaya; net services suspension extendedThe law and order situation in the affected districts of Meghalaya is, however, slowly returning to normalcy, with shops and commercial est...
- Meghalaya govt extends internet suspension by another 48 hoursOn Tuesday mobile internet and data services were suspended following firing by the Assam Police that left five civilians of Meghalaya and ...
- PNB to be lead bank for newly-formed district in MeghalayaEastern West Khasi Hills West Khasi Hills is craved out it was erstwhile West Khasi hills districts. There is no change in the lead bank re...
- Demand for dividing Meghalaya on ethnic lines grows ahead of Oct 30 by-electionThe by-polls to the three seats -Mawryngkneng, Rajabala and Mawphlang - were necessitated after the death of the sitting MLAs.
- Meghalaya violence: Stranded labourers return to AssamCurfew was relaxed in Shillong on Thursday after violence broke out between tribal and non-tribal groups. The 200 labourers, who had taken ...
- AMD to stop exploratory drilling for uranium-rich deposits in MeghalayaShillong, Aug 1 (IANS) The Atomic Minerals Directorate (AMD) on Wednesday said it would stop exploratory drilling for uranium-rich deposits...
- Khasi women marrying outside to lose ST status; but bill has 'contradictions'The bill will debar a Khasi woman from Scheduled Tribe (ST) status and other privileges.
- Khasi Hills Autonomous Council approves bill to debar Khasi woman from ST status if she marries a non-KhasiMeghalaya is a matrilineal state. Khasi Hills Autonomous District (Khasi Social Custom of Lineage) (Second amendment) Bill, 2018 stated chi...
- Meghalaya to tap its huge green energy potential in a big wayTaking cue from TN & Karnataka, power-deficit Meghalaya is going all out to tap green energy to bridge the widening demand-supply gap in th...
- Lafarge gets SC green signal to mine limestone in MeghalayaThe Supreme Court allowed French cement giant Lafarge to mine limestone in the forests of the East Khasi hills in Meghalaya.
- Lafarge mining site in Meghalaya lies in forest area: GovtThe Centre today told the Supreme Court that French cement company Lafarge's mining site in Khasi hill of Meghalaya was a forest land and e...
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