Driving through a multitude of national highways etched onto the plateau of Meghalaya, it is easy to miss Pahamsyiem village in Ri Bhoi district. With a population of approximately 2,000 people, the village almost hides itself among the lush green of this subtropical temperate climate State. Pahamsyiem is one of the 7,000 villages scattered across […]
The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, which gives armed forces operating in disturbed areas sweeping powers and immunity from prosecution unless approved by the Centre, was on Sunday (March 30, 2025) extended for six months in the entire Manipur, except the jurisdictions of 13 police stations, in view of the law and order situation there. […]
The Opposition Congress has on Saturday (March 29, 2025) alleged that at least 140 women were raped and 40 were murdered in Tripura over a period of one year. PCC president Ashish Kumar Saha stated that these facts have been confirmed by government records. He criticised the current Bharatiya Janata Party-led three-party alliance government for […]
The Voice of the People Party (VPP), Meghalaya’s newest regional political entity, has suspended one of its four MLAs and four other party leaders for anti-party activities. The MLA, Adelbert Nongrum, represents the North Shillong Assembly constituency. Kara H. Shen, the VPP’s vice-president, told the MLA in a letter on March 24 that the party […]
Stating that the women and children in strife-torn Manipur were facing “immense hardship”, a parliamentary Standing Committee has recommended that the Union Women and Child Development Ministry form a special panel to work on targeted policies and programmes for them. The department-related Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports said the committee should […]
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma went into damage-control mode after the demolition of a World War 1 cenotaph in his home town Tura triggered public outrage. A monument or tomb in honour of people whose remains are elsewhere, the cenotaph was erected in the Lower Babupara area of Tura in remembrance of 500 members […]
Sharad Leishangtham, 46, lost everything — from his home to his livelihood — in the ethnic violence that ravaged Manipur on May 3, 2023. Forced to live at a relief camp in Bishnupur, several kilometres away from his now-flattened home at Churachandpur, Leishangtham sells sugar cane juice by the roadside. More than 250 people have […]
Supreme Court judge and National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) Executive Chairman Justice B.R. Gavai will travel to Arunachal Pradesh to personally reach out to the remotely-placed tribal communities in Dirang, Bomdila, West Kameng district, and Tawang. Justice Gavai would be accompanied by Supreme Court judge, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, on the visit Scheduled on March 29-30, […]
Rajya Sabha Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Maharaja Sanajaoba Leishemba on Thursday (March 27, 2025) demanded identification of illegal immigrants in Manipur and their deportation by implementing the National Registration of Citizen (NRC) to protect the State from demographic imbalance. Manipur’s long road to recovery Raising the issue during the Zero Hour in the Upper […]
Meghalaya’s coalition government, headed by the National People’s Party, is investing heavily in football toward creating a job-oriented sports economy, Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma said on Tuesday (March 25, 2025). He said Meghalaya would have 50 Astro Turf football fields by 2028, the most for any State in India. More than 100 football training […]
