Kolkata: BJP activists stage a protest march against the killing of its party men in West Bengal, from Lalbazar to Kolkata Police Headquarters on June 12, 2019. (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS)

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.