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25 per cent hike in budget to boost women’s welfare

During 2023-24, state increased its gender budget by 19%,...

Fear of influx fuels anti-rail rant in GH

From Our Correspondent BAGHMARA, March 8: The call for expansion...

Govt constitutes panel to design new Secretariat building in NST

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, March 8: The Meghalaya government has...

Monitoring cell, two committees tackling price rise in state

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, March 8: The state government has...

‘TMC has missed a trick in M’laya’

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, March 8: Inconsistent commitment, poor strategic...

Marten chokes as govt struggles to find landfill site

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, March 8: With the landfill site...
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Handy herb

Devajyoti Bokolial, assistant professor of Botany at St Anthony’s College, provides some facts about Jamyrdoh  THE PEOPLE of Meghalaya are familiar with Jamyrdoh, used as...

Harmony of hope

Glenn C Kharkongor recounts a concert for Bethany Society  A JAZZ pianist, some of Shillong’s best bands and the talented and differently-abled singers and dancers...

ILP or PIL

Editor, From the start the ILP issue has relegated into the obscurity the permanent non-indigenous citizens who are genuine stakeholders for generations and had contributed/still...

Oil economy

The government’s intention of curtailing costly oil imports is unexceptionable. But it seems to be harbouring the oddest of ideas for doing so. One...

Planning in Meghalaya: By Whom and For Whom?

By Sumarbin Umdor   The recent admission of Chairman of the Meghalaya State Planning Board that it has no real powers and effective mandate and is...

UPA romancing with poverty

By Nantoo Banerjee   Why make so much fuss about India’s poor and the government’s so-called poverty alleviation programmes? Under the Planning Commission definition, even rag...