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Shillong, Oct 5: North Shillong MLA Adelbert Nongrum today submitted a memorandum and dossier to the state government, demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the midnight raid in Jaiaw on August 19. The raid was carried out to arrest high-ranking Khasi Students Union (KSU) members at their headquarters in Jaiaw hours after [] The post Raid on KSU HQ led to shock, trauma for Jaiaw residents, Govt told first appeared on Highland Post .

Shillong, Oct 5: The Khasi Students Union (KSU) has demanded an independent inquiry into the alleged illegal collection of money from trucks by police personnel at Mawkhanu and Thangshalai along the Shillong Bypass following its inspection on September 30. Addressing reporters today, KSU leader Shining Star Kharbihkhiew said the union acted after receiving complaints from [] The post KSU demands independent inquiry into truck extortion first appeared on Highland Post .

Shillong, Oct 5: North Shillong MLA Adelbert Nongrum today called his suspension from the Voice of the People Party (VPP) illegal and unconstitutional while insisting he remains very much within the party. Nongrum, who joined the VPP ahead of the 2023 state election, told reporters he has no intention of leaving. I have made it [] The post Adelbert decries suspension by VPP illegal & unconstitutional first appeared on Highland Post .

Shillong, Oct 5: Health Minister Wailadmiki Shylla today said MBBS seat allotment in the state is being carried out strictly on the basis of merit, following the introduction of a new standard operating procedures (SOPs). Shylla said the SOPs were brought in to address complaints over the earlier system, where students with lower marks were [] The post MBBS seat allocation based on merit, Wailad says after student claims unfair treatment first appeared on Highland Post .

Shillong, Oct 5: The Meghalaya High Court on Monday termed the 41st Interim Report submitted by former Gauhati High Court Judge Justice BP Katakey on illegal coal mining as revealing and exhaustive. A division bench of Justice Hamarsan Singh Thangkhiew and Justice Wanlura Diengdoh noted the report was submitted on September 20, 2026, in tabular [] The post Katakeys 41st report in illegal coal revealing: HC first appeared on Highland Post .

Fifty-four years after Meghalaya became a state, a child died midway, in his mothers arms and the parents walked back carrying the very life they had set out to save. That single image should shame us all. The death of a three-year-old child in Domkyrkoh village under Rambrai C&RD Block in Rambrai-Jyrngam constituency is [] The post Foundation Stone to Gravestone first appeared on Highland Post .

By Shobha Shukla At the European Parliament this week, an exhibition titled Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): The Human Stories Behind a Silent Pandemic confronts visitors with a stark reality. Antimicrobial resistance is not a distant scientific problem. It is already destroying families, emptying bank accounts, and killing at least one million people every year from drug-resistant [] The post AMR survivor, lawmaker & WHO call to protect medicines that keep us safe first appeared on Highland Post

By Dr. Shabaree Yasmeen A. Sangma Meghalaya passed a law to protect its catchment areas in 1990, yet it lay virtually unused for thirty-five years. The problem was less a matter of neglect than one of design. In a state where most land and forest belong to communities, clans and individuals rather than the government, [] The post A Law That Waited 35 Years for Consent first appeared on Highland Post .