The Meghalaya government on Tuesday decided to set up seven Border Outposts (BOP) along the border with Assam following six persons including five from Meghalaya and one Assam Forest Guard were killed in a firing incident at Mukroh area along Assam-Meghalaya border.

hillong (Meghalaya) [India], September 26 (ANI): After signing a pact to resolve the inter-state border dispute with Assam in six out of 12 areas, the Meghalaya government on Monday constituted three regional committees to examine the present status of the remaining six areas of differences.

Shillong (Meghalaya) [India], May 8 (ANI): BSF Meghalaya on Saturday seized 47 cattle heads from the border area of West Khasi Hills and South West Khasi Hills districts which were meant to be smuggled to Bangladesh, informed the BSF on Sunday.

Shillong Apr 21 PTI The Meghalaya High Court on Thursday directed the state government to come up with a temporary additional facility to ease the congestion of the Shillong District JailHearing a PIL on the matter a two-member bench said it appears that measures have been taken by the state to improve the condition in correctional homesHowever in the correctional home at Shillong there appears to be 300 per cent occupancy it said asserting that this needs to be addressed immediatelyThe state has to take adequate steps to ensure that an alternative to the present correctional home at Shillong is ready as expeditiously as possible A temporary additional facility may also be explored the court saidAt present the Shillong District Jail houses over 464 inmates against its capacity of 175Established in 1897 the jail is meant for under-trial prisoners UTPs from the East Khasi Hills West Khasi Hills and South West Khasi Hills districtsThe next hearing in the matter is on June 6 PTI JOP RBT RBT

Mumbai Mar 23 PTI The Reserve Bank has assigned the lead bank responsibility to Punjab National Bank PNB for the newly-created district of Meghalaya the central bank said on Wednesday The Meghalaya government in a notification on November 9 2021 had informed about formation of a new district Eastern West Khasi Hills It has been decided to assign the lead bank responsibility of the new district to Punjab National Bank the RBI said in a notification on Wednesday The newly-created district has been carved out from the erstwhile West Khasi Hills district it said The allotted district working code for Eastern West Khasi Hills is 00U There is no change in the lead bank responsibilities of the erstwhile district and of other districts in the State of Meghalaya said the notification PTI KPM MR

Shillong Feb 23 PTI The Meghalaya High Court Wednesday directed state chief secretary and director general of police to file an independent report into the alleged illegal coal mining in the state The HC took cognizance of reports and the complaint filed by the traditional village chief of Nengchigen in Garo Hills against certain persons including the police alleging widespread illegal mining of coal within the clan lands It also threatened to appoint a special investigation team SIT to probe the alleged illegal coal racket in the state The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice W Diengdoh said in the order the independent report should be filed by the chief secretary R V Suchiang and the special director general of police I Nongrang when the matter is taken up in court a week later preferably after visiting the areas concerned Meghalaya is yet to appoint a full director general of police following the retirement of the former incumbent R Ramachandran It is made clear that the matter complained of needs to be looked into without any political interference or else the Court may be constrained to appoint a fact-finding committee or even put a special investigation team in place or take the assistance of some agency so that the matter is appropriately and thoroughly investigated in accordance with law and the persons involved are brought to book the order said The next date of hearing has been fixed on March 2 On Tuesday Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma had said that a process is required to be followed for setting up a CBI inquiry into the alleged illegal coal trade in the state He said that an FIR filed in connection with the alleged illegal coal mining and transportation in West Khasi Hills will be looked into and that police will hold the necessary inquiry PTI JOP KK KK KK

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 24 PTI Meghalaya on Monday recorded 305 new COVID-19 cases 13 less than the previous day pushing the tally to 88764 a senior health department official said Health Services Director Dr Aman War said one new COVID-19 fatality on Monday pushed the death toll to 1498 He said of the 305 new cases East Khasi Hills district reported 242 followed by Ri Bhoi 18 West Garo Hills 16 West Jaintia Hills 8 five cases each from West Khasi Hills South Garo Hills South West Khasi Hills and one case in West Khasi Hills district War said the northeast state now has 2257 active COVID-19 cases The Health Services Director said 85009 patients have recovered from COVID-19 so far including 168 during the day The state has so far tested over 1305 lakh samples for COVID-19 he said A total of 2263 lakh people have been inoculated with COVID-19 vaccine in the state War added PTI JOP RG RG

Shillong Jan 23 PTI Meghalaya on Sunday recorded 318 new COVID-19 cases 88 less than the previous days count pushing the tally to 88459 a senior health department official said Health Services Director Dr Aman War said that one new COVID-19 fatality pushed the death toll to 1497 He said that out of the 318 new cases 201 were reported from East Khasi Hills District West Garo Hills District 70 Ri Bhoi District 24 South West Garo Hills District 8 West Jaintia Hills District 6 Eastern West Khasi Hills District3 and 2 cases each from South West Khasi Hills and West Khasi Hills District and one case each from East Jaintia Hills and South Garo Hills District respectively War said that the state now has 2121 active coronavirus cases The Health Services Director said a total of 84841 patients have recovered from the disease so far including 198 on Sunday The state has tested over 1303 lakh samples for COVID-19 till date he said A total of 2263 lakh people have been inoculated with COVID-19 vaccine in the state so far War added PTI JOP RG RG

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