By Our Reporter Shillong: Accusing the State Government of adopting an easy-going attitude towards them and not addressing their problems, persons with disabilities under the banner of Khasi Disabilities Association (KDA) hit the streets of Shillong on Wednesday and marched towards the Secretariat to voice their protest. However, police prevented them from entering the Secretariat [...]
The National Human Rights Organisation (NHRO) is exercised about the rise in crimes against women in Assam . But it said that the situation was better there on the issue of human rights violations. Data available with the NHRO show that Assam is second in the country in the category of crimes against women. Most [...]
Editor, In the last few years students who pass their HSSLC Science examinations conducted by MBOSE are not rewarded for their hard work and lose out on the Meghalaya state quota seats. This is because students from other boards who apply through the quota get higher marks than the MBOSE students. Earlier when students from [...]
By Phrangsngi Pyrtuh The world is passing through rough times. There is unprecedented uncertainty all around – political crisis, economic woes, social unrest. Solutions for solving these crises cannot be divorced from genuine concerns that led to the crises in the first place. Critical and strategic decisions at the global and regional level to overcome [...]
By Anirudh Prakash Officials and their political masters in India are satisfied with “wampum”, the gifting of baubles and trinkets, usually expressed verbally, as when Barack Obama made a few noises about India “deserving” UNSC status, only to forget about the matter once he left the country. So it is small wonder that defence minister [...]
Moscow: India’s Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand on Wednesday retained his world championship title for the fifth time beating Israel’s Boris Gelfand by 2.5 to 1.5 in tie-breaker here. Anand won game two of their four speed chess games with the other three games ending in draws to win the tie-break, which was forced after their 12-game [...]
By Our Reporter SHILLONG: Meghalaya Athletics Association (MAA) has decided not to participate in senior national athletics meet for the next few years to concentrate in grooming young talents. The MAA has taken this call after reviewing the performance of the athletes at the recently concluded State Athletics Meet held at Tura. “At present the [...]
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