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 …
SHILLONG, Jan 13: Lapses in implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) have prompted the Union Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) to stop allocating funds to Meghalaya. The ministry recently found that the Public Works Department (PWD) was not able to implement the scheme properly. Confirming the news, …
Meghalaya Chief Secretary WMS Pariat on Saturday claimed that no polio cases was detected in the State during the last 12 years. Pariat who administered polio drops to the children in Ganesh Das Hospital in Shillong to mark the inauguration of the Pulse Polio Immunization programme in the State of …
SHILLONG, Jan 10: About five villages under the Mawthadraishan Block in West Khasi Hills district have been struggling for a drop of drinking water for over 13 years. The villages
SHILLONG, Jan 5: Solar street lights were inaugurated at Lungwa village and Wakching village and handed over to the respective village council chairmen by the 37th Assam Rifles on behalf of IGAR(N) and DIG 7 Sector AR. The scheme of installing solar street lights was part of Operation Sadbhavana under …
SHILLONG: The United Democratic Party (UDP), a major coalition partner in the Congress-led MUA Government has once again got embroiled in a controversy over the Kynshi State I and II projects. Earlier the UDP which is part of the MUA government was dragged into the pre-project development package linked to …
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MANOJ ANAND An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter Scale rocked Assam, north-eastern states and neighbouring Burma on Tuesday causing minor damages to properties and cracks in apartments and other concrete structures. The regional Seismological Centre Shillong in Meghalaya said that epicentre of the tremor which took place at about …
The Meghalaya Government would soon sign an agreement with a UK-based charitable trust after which two vans would crisscross Meghalaya to help early detection and diagnosis of cancer. Health Minister Mukul Sangma said, the State Government will tie up with the MKC Roko Cancer Charitable Trust which would provide two …
New Delhi: Is coal mining in Meghalaya known as 'rat hole mining' becoming another Jharia spitting fire and polluting ground water round the year? Union Minister of State for Rural Development, Ms Agatha Sangma expressed fears that the unscientific and illegal coal mining in the Jaintia Hills District of the …
Athena, Jaypee bag Kynshi projects SHILLONG: Congress-led MUA government has decided to hand over two power projects of 100 MW each to private parties. Athena Private Ltd has bagged the Kynshi Stage I, while the Jaypee Group will execute the Kynshi Stage II project. The Cabinet took this decision in …
Meghalaya Chief Minister Dr DD Lapang said that his government is making aggressive efforts in projecting the tourism potentials of the State. Lapang stated this while inaugurating the Mairang Festival at Khatsawphra Sports Association Stadium, Mairang, West Khasi Hills district. The 1st Mairang Festival which began on December 17 concluded …
SHILLONG, Dec 17: The Hynniewtrep Achik National Movement (HANM) met the Deputy Chief Minister Mukul Sangma yesterday to put forward its suggestions to the Government on the State draft mining policy 2009. Addressing a press conference today, president L Kharbani said,
The Meghalaya government has okayed the execution of the 500 MW thermal power project by the state-run North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO). "One per cent of the project cost would be used for the development works in the project area in the East Garo Hills district," Meghalaya Power …
House witnesses intense debate SHILLONG Dec 7: The Meghalaya Assembly today dwelt on the proposed uranium mining in the State with Chief Minister DD Lapang reiterating that the Government was yet to give consent to uranium mining. Replying to a motion moved by Independent legislator Manas Chaudhuri after a three-hour …
SHILLONG, Dec 7: Meghalaya Governor Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary today underscored the importance of preserving the environment by shifting from outdated method to a scientific mode of coal mining in Jaintia Hills. Speaking at the inaugural function of the Discovery Jaintia, Mooshahary was apt to mention that the haphazard rat-hole coal …
SHILLONG: The Draft Mining Policy (DMP) is likely to dominate the proceedings of the four-day Winter Session of the State Assembly which begins here from Friday. On the first day private members' bills will be introduced, discussions for which is scheduled from December 7. The Assembly will take up obituary …
