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Sunday, May 5, 2024
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Topic: Meghalaya

Goa Governor Satya Pal Malik transferred to Meghalaya

Malik takes over from Tathagata Roy, who completed his five-year tenure by serving as governor of Tripura for three years and the remaining in Meghalaya.

Naga athlete from Thailand to train youth in Dimapur, wants to ‘connect with his roots’

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Sikkim could finally be added to India’s rail map by 2022, 13 years after project began

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

No network in this remote Nagaland village, students trek 3 km to take online exams

As many as 39 school and college students in Nagaland have been taking online exams atop a hill in the remote Tsuruhu village for the last two weeks.

Remotest Arunachal tehsil, with a motorable road 157 km away, gets 2G connectivity

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

How communities in Nagaland, other NE states are fighting Covid with own task forces, SOPs

Local communities in Northeast states have constituted own task forces, issued standard operating procedures and set up quarantine centres for returnees to fight Covid pandemic.

Arunachal’s ‘invisible men’ and why nature activists are opposing an IAF bombing exercise

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

50-year-old Meghalaya woman clears Class 12 exams, wants to go to college to study Khasi next

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Meghalaya’s Mawsynram could lose wettest-on-Earth status to this place in Indonesia

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Assam snake ‘rediscovered’ 129 years after its last sighting by a British tea planter

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

On Camera

‘Trade, not aid’—Narasimha Rao’s 1991 reforms speech that changed India’s economic landscape

On 9 July 1991, then-PM PV Narasimha Rao addressed the nation days before the Budget presentation, admitting that the job of repairing India's sick economy won't be easy, quick, or smooth.

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.