North East

Shillong, June 27 : Meghalaya closed its two-day International Conference on Women Farmers and Sustainable Organic Agriculture by inking an MoU with IFOAM Organics Asia, aiming to turn the state’s matrilineal model into a blueprint for women-led organic...

Shillong, June 27 : Shillong Traffic Police pulled over 80 violators and collected ₹81,500 in fines during a citywide night crackdown on June 26, intensifying its push for zero road deaths under Operation Safer Shillong.   The synchronised...

Guwahati (Assam), June 26: The Gauhati High Court on Friday turned down Siddhartha Sarma’s bail plea for the second time, keeping the former manager of late singer Zubeen Garg in judicial custody.   Sarma’s application was dismissed by...

Shillong, June 26 : Meghalaya opened a global stage for women farmers on Thursday, hosting an international organic conference and pumping ₹5.80 crore into village cooperatives to push its organic mission.   The two-day International Conference on Women...

Shillong, June 26: Meghalaya marked the International Day Against Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking on Thursday with Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma declaring the state’s anti-drug campaign has grown “from mission to movement.”   Sangma, joined by Tourism...

Baridua(Meghalaya), June 26: Northeast India has entered one of medicine’s biggest arenas after a USTM scientist co-authored a major global health study in _The Lancet Infectious Diseases_, a journal with an impact factor of 31.0.   Dr. Yugal...

Shillong, June 26: With 677 government schoolteacher posts lying vacant and 31,000 MTET-qualified candidates waiting, the JNC Western Zone on Wednesday urged Education Minister Lahkmen Rymbui to release recruitment ads immediately or risk losing a generation of teachers....

Shillong (Meghalaya), June 26: A Critically Endangered Chinese Pangolin and an injured Asian Palm Civet are back in the forests of Meghalaya after weeks of care, with wildlife officials releasing both into Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary on Wednesday.  ...

Guwahati, (Assam) June 26: Suman Kalyan Dutta, one of the most respected names in the North East rock circuit and a tireless champion of Assam’s western music scene, died today at his residence in Guwahati. He was 59...

New Delhi, June 25: The Congress on Thursday cornered the Centre over the status of passports as proof of citizenship, demanding an official clarification after an MEA official described it as primarily a travel document.   “Under the...