According to Army, a total of 400 veterans from West Garo Hills and East Garo Hills districts participated in the programme and were benefitted from the various facilities provided.

Ri-Bhoi (Meghalaya) [India], September 1 (ANI): Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Wednesday said the state's "Progress" scheme aims to ensure that the farmers earn a sustainable livelihood through different livestock farming activities.

New Delhi [India], August 23 (ANI): The timely intervention of the Border Security Force has resulted in preventing illegal arms to get into the hands of anti-national elements, as the BSF recovered a cache of assault weapons at the India-Pakistan border in Punjab, said the officials on Tuesday.

East Garo Hills (Meghalaya) [India], August 13 (ANI): A huge cache of arms, ammunition and explosives, suspected to be hidden by the proscribed outfit Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA), was recovered in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills district, police said.

Shillong Feb 26 PTI Meghalaya on Saturday recorded 24 new COVID-19 cases two less than the previous day pushing the caseload to 93437 while two more deaths took the toll to 1577 health officials saidOf the new infections East Khasi Hills district reported seven followed by three each from East Garo Hills Ri Bhoi South West Khasi Hills and West Garo Hills one each from East Jaintia Hills Eastern West Khasi Hills North Garo Hills South West Garo Hills and West Jaintia Hills districts Health Services director Dr Aman War saidThe state now has 189 active coronavirus cases he saidA total of 91671 coronavirus patients have recovered from the disease so far including 44 on Saturday he saidMeghalaya has conducted more than 1361 lakh sample tests for COVID-19 to date and more than 1268 lakh people have tested negative he saidAs of Friday the state has inoculated a total of 2348 lakh people with more than 963296 of them receiving both doses of the vaccine War said PTI JOP SBN MM MM

Shillong Jan 28 PTI Meghalaya recorded 361 new COVID-19 cases on Friday 73 more than the previous day pushing the caseload to 90202 a senior health official said The coronavirus death toll in the state rose to 1515 as six more patients succumbed to the disease Health Services director Dr Aman War said The state now has 2422 active cases he said Of the new cases the highest 182 patients were detected from East Khasi Hills district followed by 88 in West Garo Hills 19 in Ri Bhoi 15 in West Jaintia Hills 13 in South West Garo Hills nine in Eastern West Khasi Hills seven each in East Jaintia Hills and North Garo Hills six each in East Garo Hills and South Garo Hills five in West Khasi Hills and four in South West Khasi Hills districts he said In Meghalaya 86265 people have recovered from the infection including 348 in the last 24 hours The state has conducted over 1312 lakh tests for COVID-19 thus far he said Till Thursday a total of 2268 lakh people have been inoculated with over 927180 people receiving both doses of the vaccine War said PTI JOP SBN MM MM

Shillong Jan 26 PTI Meghalaya on Wednesday recorded 392 new COVID-19 cases five less than the previous day pushing the tally to 89553 a senior health department official said Health Services Director Dr Aman War said the COVID-19 death toll rose to 1503 with one more fatality He said of the 392 new cases 178 were reported from East Khasi Hills district West Garo Hills 48 Ri Bhoi 11 South West Garo Hills 4 three cases each from East Garo Hills and South Garo Hills two cases each from Eastern West Khasi Hills West Jaintia Hills and West Khasi Hills district War said the state currently has 2494 active COVID-19 cases while 85556 people have recovered from the disease including 254 on Wednesday The state has so far tested over 1310 lakh samples for COVID-19 A total of 2268 lakh people have been inoculated with COVID-19 vaccine of whom over 927180 have received both doses of vaccines War added PTI JOP RG RG

Shillong Nov 29 PTI Meghalaya on Monday recorded 30 new COVID-19 cases which pushed the tally to 84444 a senior official said The toll remained unchanged at 1471 health services director Dr Aman War said Of the 30 new cases 26 were detected in East Khasi Hills two in West Garo Hills and one each in East Garo Hills and West Jaintia Hills The state currently has 301 active cases Thirty-seven people recovered from the disease during the day taking the total number of those cured to 82672 Over 1206 lakh tests have been conducted in the state till date War said A total of 1965 lakh people have been inoculated in the state thus far with more than 802 lakh of them having received both the doses he added PTI JOP RMS RMS

Shillong Nov 19 PTI Meghalaya on Friday recorded 38 new COVID-19 cases pushing the active coronavirus tally to 286 health officials said Health Services director Dr Aman War said that the death toll remained at 1467 while the total caseload has increased to 84188 the official said Out of the new cases 26 cases were detected in East Khasi Hills district six in East Garo Hills three in West Khasi Hills two in West Garo Hills and one in Ri Bhoi district respectively No COVID-19 fatalities were registered on Friday Twenty-three people have recovered from the infection during the day taking the total number of recovered persons to 82435 The state has also conducted over 1184 lakh tests to date A total of 1894 lakh people have been inoculated in the state with over 755646 having received both doses of the vaccines till Thursday War said PTI JOP MM MM

Kolkata Sep 30 PTI Following are the top stories of the Eastern Region at 5 pm CAL 12 WB-BYPOLL-3RDLD-PERCENTAGE Polling peaceful in Bengals Bhabanipur 4808 pc turnout till 3 PM Kolkata Voting has largely been peaceful in Bhabanipur assembly seat where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is contesting with 4808 per cent turnout till 3 PM officials said CAL 13 OD-BYPOLL-2NDLD-PERCENTAGE 5972 pc voter turnout in Odishas Pipili till 3 PM Pipili Voting in the Pipili assembly by-poll in Odishas Puri district has so far been peaceful with 5972 per cent turnout till 3 PM on Thursday Chief Electoral Officer S K Lohani said CAL 7 AS-FARMING PROJECT-EVICTION State farming project on land cleared of squatter farmers starts in Darrang Dhalpur The Assam Governments ambitious project to bring in modern farming techniques in Darrang after ironically turfing out a more than 7000-strong farming community has begun in earnest CAL 9 MG-ACCIDENT Bus falls into river in Meghalaya 5 dead Shillong At least five persons died and several others were injured after a bus fell into a river in East Garo Hills district in the early hours of Thursday police said CAL 10 MZ-VIRUS-CASES COVID batters Mizoram active cases shoot to 16481 Aizawl Mizoram reported 1741 new coronavirus infections on Thursday taking the number of active cases to 16841 officials said CAL 11 AS-CABINET Assam cabinet nod to Rs 2500cr for paper mills microfinance borrowers Dhemaji The Assam cabinet on Thursday approved Rs 2500 crore to acquire assets of two defunct paper mills of PSU Hindustan Paper Corp HPC and waive microfinance loans availed by poor women CES 4 OD-VIRUS-CASES Odisha logs 602 fresh COVID-19 cases 6 new fatalities Bhubaneswar Odishas COVID-19 caseload on Thursday surged to 1026476 as 602 people including 96 children and adolescents tested positive for the virus while six new fatalities pushed the coronavirus death toll to 8198 a health department official said PTI RG RG