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Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday said the Rajya Sabha MP from Meghalaya will play a critical role in raising the state’s key concerns at the Centre, while expressing confidence that MDA’s candidate James K Sangma has the numbers to win the election. Speaking after James Sangma filed his nomination, the chief minister thanked MDA partners for their unanimous support. “I would like to congratulate James Sangma for filing his nomination, and I would like to thank all the partners in the MDA for having unanimously and with consensus supported the candidature of James Sangma. Today, most partners were present during the nomination,” he said. On the prospect of other candidates, Sangma said the position would be clear once nominations close. “Regarding other candidates, we a...

Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) nominee James PK Sangma on Monday filed his nomination papers for the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Meghalaya. Sangma submitted his nomination before Assembly Secretary Malthus A. Sangma at the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly Secretariat in the presence of Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma, Cabinet ministers, legislators and representatives of MDA constituent parties. With Monday being the last day for filing nominations and no opposition candidate having entered the fray till late evening, Sangma appeared poised for an uncontested election to the Council of States. The Rajya Sabha election is scheduled to be held on June 18. Speaking to reporters after filing his nomination, Sangma expressed gratitude to the people of Meghalaya and the leaders of...

Residents of Lyngkhong village along the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya's East Khasi Hills district staged a demonstration on June 7, demanding that the proposed border fence be constructed along the zero line rather than further inside Indian territory. The villagers submitted a memorandum to the Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) of Pynursla, urging authorities to immediately halt the ongoing fencing work until their concerns are addressed. The villagers submitted a memorandum to the Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) of Pynursla, urging authorities to immediately halt the ongoing fencing work until their concerns are addressed. Lyngkhong is among the few border villages where houses stand only a few metres away from settlements across the border in Bangladesh. Under existing interna...

Mawsynram UDP legislator Olan Sing Suin has rejected talk of divisions within the United Democratic Party, maintaining that the party remains firm and united on all issues. Responding to queries on recent political shifts, Suin described such movements as normal in politics. “This is not a rare phenomenon, it is common. In any political party, some go and some come,” he said. He stressed that the UDP has no internal rift and functions on consensus, in line with its name. “There is no rift, there is no division. We are all in consensus on any issues. We are united, as the party name suggests,” the MLA stated. Suin also clarified the context of the recent Rajya Sabha nomination, saying it was a call taken by the parliamentary party, not by the party as a whole. He added th...

Wall Street experienced a major selloff, heavily led by premium technology shares. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite plunged 4.2 percent, while the S&P 500 lost 2.64 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.4 percent. The aggressive downturn was triggered by fresh economic data showing US employers added far more jobs than anticipated. This unexpectedly robust labor market immediately fueled investor bets that the US Federal Reserve may have to implement further interest rate hikes before the end of the year to curb potential inflation. In response to the jobs data, US Treasury yields surged dramatically. The yield on the policy-sensitive 2-year note hit a 15-month high, settling at 4.147 percent. Financial strategists note that a resilient domestic economy, coupled wit...

In a region where border fencing projects routinely get stuck over terrain, legal challenges, land ownership and diplomatic complexities, Meghalaya has achieved remarkable success on the border it shares with Bangladesh. The state shares a 443-km international border with its eastern neighbour. These stretches pass through East Khasi Hills, West Khasi Hills, South West Khasi Hills, East Jaintia Hills, West Jaintia Hills, South Garo Hills and South West Garo Hills. Nearly 400 km of this border has already been fenced, leaving just 40-45 km pending. That means Meghalaya is now within touching distance of completing one of the Northeast’s most significant border infrastructure projects. Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma recently underscored the scale of the achievement, stating that n...

Meghalaya has notified a fresh set of regulations governing the display of name boards on government vehicles, laying down who can use official designation plates and the manner in which they must be displayed. The Transport Department issued the "Display of Name Boards on Motor Vehicles Regulations, 2026", which came into effect from the date of publication in the official gazette. The notification states that no vehicle, except those specifically listed under the regulations, may display boards carrying the name of the government, a government department or the designation of a dignitary or official without prior approval from the Transport Department. The rules permit designated name boards for constitutional authorities, elected representatives, senior government officials and m...

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma has disclosed that the Meghalaya government has submitted a comprehensive memorandum to Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his visit to Shillong for the 73rd Plenary Session of the North Eastern Council (NEC). In this memorandum, the state government strongly urged and reminded the Centre regarding four critical and pressing issues that directly impact the welfare and security of Meghalaya and its citizens. ​Interacting with media persons, the Chief Minister emphasized that Meghalaya urgently requires legal mechanisms to check and control the illegal influx of foreign nationals into the state. The state government formally requested the Central government to grant immediate approval for the implementation of the Inner Line Permit (ILP), which...

A newly minted, U.S.-brokered ceasefire between the Israeli and Lebanese governments has fallen into immediate jeopardy as relentless Israeli military strikes continue to pummel southern Lebanon, matched by a fierce rejection of the truce terms by Hezbollah. The diplomatic agreement, finalized during high-stakes talks in Washington, was designed to pause the devastating regional spillover of the broader Iran war by mandating a complete halt to hostilities and establishing "pilot security zones" under the exclusive control of the Lebanese Armed Forces. However, the framework is heavily contingent on Hezbollah completely evacuating its operatives south of the Litani River—a condition the militant group’s leader, Naim Qassem, aggressively denounced as a humiliating "roadmap to annihilation."...