The multi storeyed residential quarters of the Soil & Water Conservation Department was inaugurated by Minister of Soil and Water Conservation R.V. Lyngdoh at Lawmali on Tuesday

The Shillong Times first appeared as a tabloid weekly on 10th August 1945 under the editorship of Late Sudhindra Bhusan Chaudhuri. In 1958 it was converted to a Daily. Owing to financial constraints, within six months it reverted back to a weekly.