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 constraints, ...

A couple of weeks ago, a friend, Valentine Sohtun, shared a 2015 article with me titled ‘An Ethnographic Exploration of the Lyngam Ethnic Community in Bangladesh’ written by Nur Mohammad Majumder, Lye ...

SHILLONG, Dec 20: As Pinewood Hotel celebrates its 126th anniversary, the state government has announced plans to fully restore and optimise the historic property to its former glory before the end of ...

In August this year during the Assembly session, Deputy Chief Minister in charge of Commerce and Industries, Sniawbhalang Dhar while replying to a question from VPP MLA Adelbert Nongrum about the ...

By Priyan R Naik Older readers in Shillong will recollect devouring Maugham’s short stories, I am certain most of them cannot even recount how many times they must have read and reread the tales ...

In an astounding feat inside the caves of Meghalaya along with members of Meghalaya Adventures Association and Irish Cave Rescue Operations, Patricia Mukhim accounts a firsthand experience at it while ...

A working paper titled “Relative economic performance of Indian states over 1960- till 1923-24” released recently from the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) casts the economy of ...

With the global higher education gross enrolment ratio having amplified from 19 per cent in 2000 to 37 per cent in 2024, 90 per cent of the countries in the world are still confronting a stark ...

SHILLONG, Nov 7: The High Court of Meghalaya on Thursday allowed NHIDCL and the contractor concerned to proceed with building the first part or package of the proposed Shillong-Dawki highway with all ...

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 ...

By Bhogtoram Mawroh A couple of weeks ago, I cycled to Umsning to eat lunch at a local food shop known for serving indigenous dishes. This particular shop, run by a Catholic family, is well-known for ...

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 ...