Shillong | The BJP’s Meghalaya unit Vice-President Bernard N. Marak, against whom look out notice was issued by the state police after five children were rescued and 73 people arrested on Saturday from a brothel reportedly run by him in West Garo Hills district, has been arrested from Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Tuesday. […]
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Meghalaya: 5 children rescued, 73 held from ‘brothel’ allegedly run by BJP leader
Shillong | In a major embarrassment for the BJP, five children were rescued and 73 people arrested from a “brothel” reportedly run by the party’s Meghalaya Vice President Bernard N. Marak in Tura on Saturday, police said. The BJP leader has denied the charge and accused Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma of political vendetta. Acting […]
Meghalaya: 5 dead, 16 injured as bus plunges into swollen Ringdi river
Shillong | At least five people died and 16 others were injured when a Meghalaya state transport corporation passenger bus plunged into the Ringdi River in the wee hours of Thursday, police said. A senior police official here said that the night super bus fell into the Ringdi River at Nongchram in East Garo Hills District […]
Meghalaya CM tests positive for Covid-19
Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Friday informed that he has tested positive for Covid-19 and asked all those who came in contact with him to get themselves tested. Taking to Twitter, Sangma, 42, said: “I have tested positive for Covid-19. I am under home isolation and experiencing mild symptoms. I request all those […]
Starting today, liquor shops to remain open in Assam, Meghalaya for 7 hours daily
Guwahati/Shillong: All liquor shops and wholesale warehouses in Assam and Meghalaya will remain open from Monday for limited hours, official orders said on Sunday. In Assam all liquor shops and wholesale warehouses will remain open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the permitted days while these will open from 9 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. […]
Minor girl from Meghalaya gang raped in Gurugram
Gurugram (1 MIN READ): A 14-year-old girl from Meghalaya has been gang raped by four persons in Haryana here, Gurugram police PRO Subhash Bokan said on Thursday. The incident came to light after the victim’s parents approached the Meghalaya House in the national capital and reported the incident late on Wednesday. Officials of Meghalaya House […]
‘Bengali boys are sweeping floors, girls are dancing in bars’: Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy
New Delhi: Known for stoking controversy on social media, Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy has again raked up a storm by posting a series of anti-Bengali tweets, saying that the greatness of Bengalis was long gone and that Bengalis were either “sweeping floors” or working as “bar dancers” in Mumbai. The former BJP leader, who hails from […]
Army joins search and rescue operations in Meghalaya
Shillong : A platoon of Indian soldiers on Monday joined the search and rescue operations in Meghalaya where the fate of 13 miners remains unknown inside an illegal 370 feet deep coal mine in East Jaitia Hills district, an official said. Indian Navy divers couldn’t retrieve the body of another miner, which was detected on […]
Meghalaya: Navy divers continue efforts to retrieve body of second miner
Shillong : The Indian Navy divers on Sunday made efforts to retrieve the body of a miner, which was detected on Saturday by an underwater remotely operated vehicle (UROV) inside a rat-hole coal mine at Ksan village in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills, where 13 more remained trapped for 45 days now. “The Navy divers are […]
Navy retrieves body of dead miner, no word on other 14 trapped miners
Shillong : A Navy team on Thursday pulled out a body from a 370-ft deep flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district where no official is willing to confirm the fate of the remaining 14 miners, trappped since December 13. A 15-member Naval team from Visakhapatnam will continue to search for the remaining […]