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 ...

Amid the onslaught of westernisation and the heavy influence of Christianity in the 1800s, the traditional practices of the Khasis were at the edge of a precipice – one nudge and the identity would be ...

The history of Jaintia Hills is different from those of other chieftainships within the grand HynniewTrep tribe and it begins right from the stories of the origin of the kingdoms. The Jaintia kingdom ...

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 ...

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 ...

SHILLONG, Nov 12: Meghalaya has witnessed progress in reducing Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), as per the Health Management Information System. As of January this year, the state recorded 107 maternal ...

Indigenous games are recreational activities that originated from a particular cultural group, community or people. These games are different from mainstream sports, which are regulated by ...

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 ...

Rev. Lyndan Syiem Today is Thomas Jones Day, in honour of the pioneer Welsh Presbyterian missionary among the Khasi-Jaiñtia people who arrived at Sohra on 22 June, 1841. In 2018, the Government of ...

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 ...

During the last one year, NEHU has taken several initiatives for implementation of the New Education Policy, 2020. Many talks, seminars, and workshops were organized on NEP 2020. The university ...