Platinum Jubilee Special Supplement

Special Supplement on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of The Shillong Times. This will be a year long celebration dedicating to the theme ‘ clean environment ‘ .

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Assam Police nab 2 suspected Bangladeshi militants

Guwahati, May 14: In a significant development, two Bangladeshi nationals, suspected to be cadres of Ansarullah Bangla Team...
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Assam Cong leader slams Cabinet’s decision to scrap Muslim marriage Act

Guwahati, Feb 28: Assam Congress leader Debabrata Saikia on Wednesday slammed the Assam Cabinet’s recent decision to repeal...
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Olympics: India beat Australia 1-0, storm into women’s hockey semifinals

TOKYO, August 2:  The Indian women's hockey team made history on Monday as it stormed into the semifinals...
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Assam cops arrest 3 Nigerian nationals

  GUWAHATI: Three Nigerian nationals were apprehended from the Assam-Tripura border in Karimganj district for allegedly entering the country...
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ONGC has no plan to shift its Nazira office

  ONGC to invest Rs 13,000 crore in Assam GUWAHATI: The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) while dismissing...
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It isn’t over until it is really over

This line epitomises the essence of sports. Sports is not about who starts and who finishes on...
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THOSE TUMULTUOUS 30 YEARS

By Manas Chaudhuri The story of my 30 years as Editor of The Shillong Times can be summed...
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If it weren’t for them

As The Shillong Times celebrates its coveted Platinum Jubilee, it’s time to look back at the sepia pages...
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At 76, city’s oldest newspaper hawker soldiers on

News of the world at a Motphran corner He sits at the corner of Motphran point, leading to Iewduh,...
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A road travelled well but miles to go

August 10, 1945. One man’s vision and conviction, and of course, enterprise birthed The Shillong Times weekly. Thousands...
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Is NEC a crumbling council?

By Rahul Karmakar No decade after India’s independence has perhaps impacted the eight-state Northeast as much as the 1970s....
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Circa 1945: The Beginning

During the Golden Jubilee celebrations of The Shillong Times 25 years ago, our Founder Editor Late Sudhindra Bhushan...
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Identity conundrum

Relationships between ethnic groups have often met with various setbacks due to distrust… By Samudra Gupta Kashyap Often referred to...
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Early Shillong through the eyes of a German Catholic missionary

Father Otto Hopfenmüller of the Society of the Divine Saviour or ...
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TRAILBLAZERS FROM THE NORTH EAST

DIPA KARMAKAR is an Indian artistic gymnast. Karmakar first gained attention when she won a bronze medal at...
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GOLDEN GLOVES

“Never Buy Gold. Simply Earn It.”-- Magnificient Mary The 36-year-old MC MARY KOM has been an inspiring force in...
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History of SHILLONG

Born in mid-1860s, the city went through constant metamorphosis to get its present look By B Datta Ray Lure...
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A journey I did not choose

By Patricia Mukhim Some things are divinely ordained or so I would like to believe. The editorship of this...