About Us 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 ...

By HH Mohrmen Of-late debates on the identity of the Jañtias vis a vis the Khasis has been a topic of hot debate on social media and outside it. That the two communities the Khasi and the Jañtia ...

Common ailments such as cold, cough, diarrhea, and fever are frequently brought up in general discussions about health and disease. Known to be generally harmless, these symptoms and illnesses are ...

In India, indigenous peoples (IPs) are termed Scheduled Tribes, and they have been given special provisions under the Constitution, which include the right to practice their customs and traditions and ...

However, on closer analysis, this narrative is found to be flawed, and not consistent with the actual processes in the evolution of the Khasi polity, and I beg to differ with this narrative. At the ...

By Dr. Rekha M Shangpliang Of late there have been wide speculations about the resilience and future of one of the oldest known kinship institutions in society – Matriliny , as it made headlines in ...

Rabindranath Tagore and Rudyard Kipling never met each other but their admirers often hailed them together in the newsstand. Both are contemporary Indians. Tagore (1861-1941) and Rudyard Kipling (1865 ...

Recently, I came across the NEHU’s notification seeking applications from professors for the position of Honorary Director of North Eastern Regional Council of ICSSR. Earlier, the position of Honorary ...

He was the son of the soil, the Cherrapunji poet of rains and rainbow, and the poet of the limbo-land. Born to Hag Tongper and Lyngkien Tham in 1873, he struggled hard to study, become a high school ...

The dorbar-shnongs had existed in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills as modern indigenous grassroots institutions before the formation of the state of Meghalaya. However, they functioned only as informal and ...

By Erwin K. Syiem Sutnga In the Khasi-Jaintia Hills, the land of the Hynniewtrep, our traditional governance system is deeply rooted in the will of the people, with the villagers at the grassroot ...

Shillong, Dec 5: The third edition of the Meghalaya Games in Tura will be unlike the first two editions with a confluence of the modern and traditional tribal games. Informing this, Chief Minister ...