Shillong : Laitkroh MDC Carmel Sohtun climbs on the desk to protest the delimitation Bill introduced on the first day of KHADC session on Tuesday. (TM)

By Our Reporter  SHILLONG: KHADC Chief Executive Member (CEM) PN Syiem on Tuesday presented a Rs 27,610 deficit budget for the fiscal year of 2013-2014 on the first day of the Council’s Summer Session. In the budget, total expenditure was fixed at at Rs 88, 22, 39,630 crore, while the total revenue was pegged at Rs.88,22,12,020 crore, a deficit of Rs 27,610. As per [Full Article...]

By Our Reporter  SHILLONG: The KHADC Executive Committee has decided to refer the Village Administration Bill, 2013 to the Select Committee after several MDCs objected to the passing of the bill in its present form. As soon as the Executive Member (EM) in charge Elaka Lamphrang Blah tabled the Bill on the floor of House on the first day of its Summer session on [Full Article...]

By Our Reporter  SHILLONG: The first day of the KHADC Summer Session on Tuesday witnessed a bizarre incident when Laitkroh MDC Carmel Sohtun jumped on the desk of the House to voice his opposition on the move to scrap the constituency he represented as per proposed delimitation Bill which is expected to be passed during ongoing session. As per the delimitation Bill, the KHADC [Full Article...]

By Our Reporter  SHILLONG:Breaking its silence over Ampati twin rape case, Opposition NPP has dragged the Chief Minister’s mother into the controversy saying that the government is dilly-dallying the arrest of the accused as he is a “relative of Dr. Mukul Sangma’s mother Roshanara Begum.” Nurul Islam, who allegedly raped two sisters in Ampati, the Assembly constituency of Chief Minister Dr Sangma, has been [Full Article...]

By Our Reporter  SHILLONG: The differences in the MUA government over the KHADC’s proposal to delimit its constituencies has come to light when Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh shot off a letter to the Chief Executive Member (CEM) of the council opposing the move. When the KHADC’s proposed move received support from District Council Affairs Minister HDR Lyngdoh, Ampareen opposed it saying the council [Full Article...]

By Ibankyntiew Mawrie  SHILLONG: Repeated raids conducted by the East Khasi Hills police from time to time clearly indicate that the district especially the state’s capital is witnessing a big market of illicit liquor where the bootlegging business runs high. From January to April this year as many as 46 liquor raids were conducted by the District Police through their respective police stations and [Full Article...]

By Our Reporter  SHILLONG: Though the Meghalaya High Court last month quashed the appointment of Loma Jyrwa as the Mission Director of State Resource Centre for Women and cited the alleged role of Director Social Welfare H. Shangplinag in the appointment, Jyrwa is still continuing as the Mission Director. According to sources, despite the Court making the appointment of Jyrwa null and void through [Full Article...]