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Echoes of past haunt Shillong as anti-outsider campaign gathers strength, NPP dithers

Rising anti-outsider incidents in Shillong stoke fears among non-tribals over a return to Meghalaya's violent past. NPP-led coalition denies claims it is soft on pressure groups.

‘Meghalaya’s Kejriwal’: All about Ardent Basaiawmoit & party VPP, in spotlight after Shillong win

While some of his themes are on agenda of other players, he projects hardline image on identity issues. Last year, Ardent walked out of assembly opposing Governor's Hindi address.

Hindutva, Himanta weighing down BJP in Northeast. Allies rue ‘burden’, 1 demands ‘special status’

Such collective repudiation is rare for BJP in the region, where it has grown considerably aided by support of local parties that generally tend to ally with the party at the Centre.

Tribal life and Christian missionaries clash in this Garo film about outsiders

Meghalaya isn't known for filmmaking. But Dominic Sangma is changing that in a state with only two movie theatres. his Garo-language film Rapture was released across 33 French cities.

50 yrs of Meghalaya history, 6000 photos were trashed. A Northeast archive rescued it

Junisha Khongwir, a curator at the Northeast India Audio Visual Archive, recalled in an online event the importance of bringing archival materials back to the communities from which they originated.

Agatha Sangma loses family seat of Tura in Meghalaya, new entrant VPP emerges ‘dark horse’ in Shillong

Tura was big shocker for NPP as it is after gap of 33 years that someone not from family of former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno A. Sangma has bagged this parliamentary seat.

Meghalaya gets 1st woman DGP. CM Sangma praises her for ‘breaking barriers & making history’

A 1992 batch IPS officer, Idashisha Nongrang is currently serving as Director General of Meghalaya Civil Defence and Home Guards. She'll assume office on 20 May.

2 bodies found after anti-CAA rally in Meghalaya, victims beaten to death, reports local media

The dead have been identified as L. Esan Sing and L. Sujit Dutta. Both were from 'non-indigenous' communities.

When ‘Adolf Lu Hitler was arrested by John F Kennedy’ during 2008 polls in Meghalaya

As country gears up for Lok Sabha polls, Election Commission's post on X harks back to a headline that became the talk of the town.

Where will Shillong’s Dalit Sikhs go? The question at the heart of rift with Khasis

Shillong: In the bustling heart of Shillong’s commercial hub Bara Bazaar, a shiny new white-and-gold gurdwara stands as an enduring symbol of unity and faith....

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.