Shillong: Meghlaya’s ruling National People’s Party on Saturday launched its social media campaign, with the theme “One Voice, One North East”, to enlighten the electorate across the northeast on its agenda. The tribal-centric party has fielded its candidates in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland for the upcoming Lok[Read More…]
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Lok Sabha Elections 2019: BJP to support Agatha Sangma in Meghalaya’s Tura
Shillong: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is part of the ruling coalition in Meghalaya but had decided to fight the Lok Sabha polls by itself, on Saturday announced its support to National People’s Party candidate Agatha Sangma in the Tura parliamentary constituency. However, the BJP has nominated its sitting[Read More…]
SC stays contempt punishment against Shillong Times
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday put on hold a Meghalaya High Court order holding the Editor of The Shillong Times, Patricia Mukhim, and publisher Shobha Chaudhuri guilty of contempt and fining them Rs 2 lakh each. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice[Read More…]
Meghalaya committed to scientific mining: Governor
Shillong: Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy on Friday said the government is committed to promoting scientific and secure coal mining in the state in line with direction of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). “The government has framed the guidelines for coal mining and an action plan has been prepared in consultation[Read More…]
After AGP, Conrad Sangma led NPP likely to cut ties with BJP over Citizenship Amendment Bill
After the Asom Gana Parishad, another party of the north-east has shown its lack of confidence in the government. On a question if pulling out of NDA is an option, Conrad Sangma the current Chief Minister of Meghalaya and president of the National People’s Party said, “we will when the situation[Read More…]
Trapped miner’s father wants to rappel down Meghalaya mine to look for son
By Anup Sharma Bhangnamari (Assam): Solibar Rahman stopped working in Meghalaya’s illegal coal mines in 2012. The native of this village in western Assam’s Chirang district is, however, confident of his skills and is now bracing for one last attempt to rappel down the 380-foot coal mine at Ksan in[Read More…]
Navy divers join firefighters, mining experts at Meghalaya mining site
Ksan (Meghalaya): A 15-member team of Indian Navy divers and 21 firefighters from Odisha have Meghalaya’s Ksan village on Saturday to assist the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescuers in evacuating 15 miners who are trapped inside a flooded illegal coal pit for over two weeks now. The district administration[Read More…]
Additional NDRF team rushed to Meghalaya to rescue miners
Shillong: The Central government on Friday rushed an additional National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team to Meghalaya to assist the state in evacuating 15 miners who are trapped inside an illegal coal mine for 16 days now. Coal India Limited (CIL) officials have rushed to the site in remote Ksan[Read More…]
Trapped Meghalaya miners: Rahul Gandhi blames PM Modi, Kiren Rijiju hits back
New Delhi: While 15 miners continue to remain trapped in a flooded coal mine in Meghalaya for a fortnight now, the issue on Wednesday led to a political slugfest with Rahul Gandhi targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Centres ruling BJP accusing the Congress President of politicising a tragedy.[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi slams Modi govt for “refusing to organise high pressure pumps” to rescue miners
As the rescue operations to save 15 trapped miners got hampered with the lack of high power pumps, Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi took a jibe at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ‘meanwhile’ strutting about the ‘Bogibeel Bridge posing for cameras’. Gandhi further accused the Modi government of refusing to[Read More…]
