Around 4,000 school teachers in Meghalaya have gone on a three-day mass casual leave since Wednesday in protest against the delay on the part of state government in disbursing revised pay.
India has never consciously played the big brother in South Asia although there is a general feeling that it may be acting like one, said External Affairs Minister of State Shashi Tharoor in Shillong on Friday, reports HT Correspondent.
Blaming the inflation on the supply bottleneck, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said prices of foodgrains are expected to come down after the rabi harvest.
In a jolt to Congress dissidents demanding removal of Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang, senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee today ruled out any leadership change in the state.
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Meghalaya is set to be first business school in the country to webcast its first convocation ceremony live April 3.
Meghalaya Chief Minister DD Lapang today dismissed apprehensions of a split in the state Congress unit in the wake of 16 dissident MLAs pressing the central leadership to remove him from the post.
Adventurers have explored 36 new caves, including the sub-continent's third longest one, and mapped 25,205 metres of new cave passage during a month long expedition in Meghalaya's Jaintia Hills district.
As part of the UN Mission, 140 men from Assam Rifles will be leaving for Haiti next month to provide relief and aid in the quake-hit poor Carribean country.
The Assam Rifles, India’s oldest and only paramilitary force under the control of two Central ministries, has taken the rough with the smooth since it was raised as a private militia of British tea planters in 1835.
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake rocked Meghalaya Saturday morning, triggering panic among residents. No casualties have been reported.
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake rocked Meghalaya on Saturday morning, triggering panic among residents. No casualties have been reported.
The Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on Sunday traded gunfire in Muktapur sector along the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya, officials in Shillong said.
Bangladesh Rifles is mobilising personnel along the border in Meghalaya's Muktapur area, a day after heavy firing was reported between the border guards of the two countries.
Meghalaya Chief Minister DD Lapang flew to New Delhi on Wednesday to meet party president Sonia Gandhi as legislators stepped up their campaign to oust him and seek changes in the cabinet.
Two houses have been torched by unknown miscreants in the disputed Langpih area along the Assam-Meghalaya border, raising tension in the area.