Men at work busy constructing drains at Polo to prevent floods that annually hit the area due to overflowing of the Umkhrah River during monsoon season on Thursday (TM)

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.