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 Judicial Magistrate Mitali Thakuria’s court, a senior...

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 Farmers And Sustainable Organic Agriculture drew delegates...

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 Minister Timothy D Shira, said the DREAM...

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 Kishore Mohanta, Assistant Professor in Applied Biology...

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.   Led by President Hamehi Bamon, the...