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 …
TURA: At a time when the forest cover in Garo Hills is disappearing at a phenomenal pace resulting in drastic climatic changes, tree felling has been going on. A large track of forest land at Mikgesi village in Tebronggre area of Rongram, near Tura, is being cleared and timber laden …
The monsoons, which have been almost eluding the North East this season, have finally become active in the region. While most of the places in the region have been witnessing moderate to heavy rainfall since the past two days, the Meteorology department has predicted it would continue for about a …
Meghalaya will hasten the process to draft the state mining policy. Although commercial extraction of coal and limestone is more than 20 years old, there is no policy to check the unscientific rat hole coal mining that is prevalent in the coal belts spread around four districts of Meghalaya. Taking …
Shillong: Nokrek Biosphere Reserve in West Garo Hills district, which has been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) list of Worldwide Network of Biosphere Reserves, eyed for more fund to carry out further research and development programmes on the existence of varieties of flora and …
NEW DELHI: Withdrawal of the ban on coal import from Meghalaya and other Northeastern states, the sixth in last eight years, was under pressure from the Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce (BCC), who have many brick kiln owners as its members besides the low price factor. The Ministry of Commerce under …
SHILLONG: The Central Government has earmarked Rs 12 lakh under the Twelfth Finance Commission for protection of Nymphaea tetragonolobus, a species of rare lotus discovered in a small pond near Smit around 20 km from the city. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests VK Nautiyal told reporters on Thursday that the …
Shillong: Meghalaya will hasten the process to draft the State Mining Policy. Although commercial extraction of coal and limestone is more than twenty years old, there is no policy to check the unscientific
SHILLONG: The Congress-led KHADC Executive Committee (EC) has set up an independent inquiry committee (IAC), headed by the Council Court Additional Judge S Kharsyiemlieh, to investigate the reported involvement of its senior employees in smuggling of timber from the forest areas under the jurisdiction of the Council. Sources on Thursday …
Meghalaya demands compensation from the Centre as a reward for preserving and giving a thrust to environment and ecology------- When Jacquelin Lyndoh of St. Mary's College, Shillong, was planting a sapling little did she know that her sapling would be one of those thousands that have gone on to increase …
Water crisis hits Shillong city SHILLONG: Water crisis has hit people of Shillong city for the last couple of days, forcing them to buy water at a very high price. A section of the people have questioned the delay in repairing the main feeder of Greater Shillong Water Supply at …
SHILLONG: Meghalaya, with 32 per cent tobacco users, stands fifth on the list of top tobacco-consuming states in the country where 2500 people die due to tobacco consumption everyday. As per official records, most northeastern states are among the highest tobacco-consuming states with Mizoram leading the tally with 61 per …
The Northeastern States are amongst the top consumers of tobacco products in the country with Mizoram earning the dubious distinction of having the largest number of tobacco product consumers in India. Sixty-one per cent of the population in Mizoram uses some form of tobacco products. In India, 57 per cent …
Taking the matter of growing pressure on forest resource seriously priority on scientific management in letter and spirit should be given and sustainable use of forest products without affecting forest health is the need of the hour. Referring to the depletion of forest cover, a forest source was of the …
TURA: In a bid to revamp the working of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and other developmental programmes, the Government is relaunching the scheme on a campaign mode. In this connection, the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) of West Garo Hills district has prepared a calender of Social Audit …
SHILLONG: The State Government has procured 30,000 vaccines from Croatia for the ongoing mass vaccination against meningococcal meningitis that has reportedly claimed 257 lives in Meghalaya in 2008-09. With 30,000 more vaccines, about three lakh people will be vaccinated against the disease. Out of the 257 meningitis deaths so far, …
SHILLONG, July 13: To address the problems being faced by the people of Balat village, officials of Union Water Resource Ministry visited the village on Saturday to asses the quantum of destruction caused by the Balat river leading to evacuation of more than 21 families recently. Union Minister of State …
SHILLONG, July 13: In a bid to revamp the working of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and other developmental programmes, the Government is relaunching the scheme on a campaign mode. With regards to this, the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), West Garo Hills have prepared a calendar of …
Shillong: Below Poverty Line (BLP) families in the State will get Smart Cards, to be issued by the Government to avail health insurance coverage under the Centrally sponsored scheme - Rashtriya Swasthiya Bima Yojna (RSBY), which is expected to be launched in the State by October this year. To avail …
