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 What are the traditional institutions and how are they established in the Jaintia hills? Why does the traditional institution of Daloiship prevail only in the Jaintia hills and not in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SHILLONG, Sep 15: Shillong MP Ricky AJ Syngkon announced on Sunday that he will be writing to the Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI) to address the urgent need for infrastructure improvements at the ...

Shillong, May 27 : For former bureaucrat and author of many popular books, KK Muktan, it was a necessity to write about the Nepalis as there is no Nepali history book so far written by anybody and ...

NEW DELHI, April 11: The Meghalaya Basin Development Authority (MBDA) is one among the five top organisations allowed by the Centre to undertake cluster farming of specific horticulture crops in about ...

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 ...