Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "CAG faults city’s waste processing" appearing in the Shillong Times dated 16.09.2024 dated 24/03/2025. Reply affidavit dated March 21, 2025 has been filed by the Deputy Commissioner, East Khasi Hills district, Shillong. The affidavit stated that two …
New Delhi: The Centre today announced it would give 32 per cent of its tax revenue to states, apart from Rs 3.19 lakh crore as grant in the next five years with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee accepting the 13th Finance Commission's recommendations. As a result, the tax revenue share goes …
Forest fire, an anti environmental human activity, is becoming a great threat for eco restoration of Cherrapunjee-the site famous as wettest place on earth. Human's carelessness, negligence and ignorance are the main causes of annual ground fire resulting into pronounced and prolonged ill effect on climate, land use, land cover, …
SHILLONG, Feb 19: The Meghalaya Government is determined to implement a people-friendly and nature-friendly State Mining Policy which, it says, would be adopted soon. Amid the growing differences among various groups over the proposed mining policy, the Deputy Chief Minister and Mining and Geology Minister BM Lanong told newsmen today …
SHILLONG, Feb 15: The Meghalaya Government has finally notified constitution of a Joint Committee on Uranium Mining in Meghalaya (JCUMM) comprising 32 members even as the three-month period for submission of its report to the government lapsed on February 4. The JCUMM was constituted on November 4 to look into …
Mondal, Tynsong in 33-member committee SHILLONG: The State government has formed a 33-member committee to go into the various aspects of uranium mining in the West Khasi Hills district. The committee comprising members from various NGOs, experts from both the governmental and private along with Ministers has been asked to …
UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different.
NONGSTOIN: The Public Affairs Committee (PAC) under the leadership of its Chairman Rev PBM Basaiwamoit, held a meeting on Monday at PWD IB Campus here to discuss the draft mining policy of the State Government wherein the Committee decided to oppose the policy. According to the committee, there is no …
The Supreme Court on Friday stopped French cement giant Lafarge from carrying out mining of limestone at its mines in Meghalaya for its cement plant in Bangladesh, saying mining in the eco-friendly area could not be allowed. A Special Forest Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan stayed the …
SHILLONG, Feb 5: The Supreme Court (SC) today passed an interim order asking French cement giant Lafarge to stop carrying out mining for limestone in Meghalaya for its cement plant in Bangladesh saying mining in the eco-friendly region cannot be allowed. A Special Forest Bench headed by Chief Justice KG …
JOWAI: The tussle over ownership of a plot of forest land located at Mynthning village in Jaintia Hills has continued between the Dorbar Shnong Mynthning and Durbar Shnong Samasi. According to village elders of Mynthning village a group of people on Saturday had gone to the forest area called Khlaw …
Bhutan will export oranges to Bangladesh through Dawki land customs station in Meghalaya, official sources said. Following a nod from New Delhi, a delegation from Bhutan comprising members from Bhutan Chamber of Commerce, Bhutan Import and Export Association, Bhutan-Indo Friendship Association and other officials arrived at Dawki recently to complete …
JOWAI: The Jaintia Hills Deputy Commissioner has declared Jowai town as a "free plastic zone" under the Total Sanitation Campaign. The declaration was made on Thursday, on the occasion of the 38th Statehood day. In its endeavour to make Jowai town a free plastic zone, the District Administration has announced …
Alarmed by the dangers posed to the ecologically endangered caves in Meghalaya, longest in Asia, and the indifferent attitude of the State Government, the Supreme Court has been urged to appoint a team of experts to assess the position. Not satisfied with the action taken by State Government following directions …
Mining Policy too late to save Jaintia Hills rivers By HH Mohrmen SHILLONG: In 1957, David Lean made the famous movie The Bridge on the River Kwai a British World War II film based on the emergency construction of a railway bridge for war purposes in Burma. Jaintia Hills has …
On an average, the North East was rocked by an earthquake every 10 days in 2009 as statistics pointed to increasing seismic activity in the region. Records with the Central Seismological Observatory in Shillong said 34
