-IANS/ The Shillong Times New Delhi: Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Thursday asked the states to plan in advance for their fertilisers needs and provide estimates to the Centre so that the Fertiliser Department can timely provide sufficient amount. He also suggested that states should increase the use of NPK and liquid urea and reduce the dependence on DAP fertilisers. Tomar was speaking at the National Conference on Agriculture for Summer...
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‘Where is the development, where are the services?’: Patricia Mukhim -Sanjoy Hazarika
-The Hindu A troubled Meghalaya will see unrest growing until 2023, when the next elections are due, says the editor of ‘The Shillong Times’, Patricia Mukhim On August 13, an ailing former leader of an armed group was shot dead in the middle of the night at his home in Shillong by a police team. The incident led to unrest in Mawlai where the encounter occurred and resonated in the adjoining neighbourhoods...
More »Journalists Patricia Mukhim, Anuradha Bhasin Move SC Against Sedition Law
-TheWire.in The two have said that Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code will continue to "haunt and hinder" the right to free speech and the freedom of the press. New Delhi: Journalists Patricia Mukhim and Anuradha Bhasin have become the latest to move Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of sedition law contending that the colonial-era penal provision was being used to intimidate, silence and punish scribes. Mukhim is editor of The...
More »‘Celebrity bias’ in Editors Guild of India -Umanand Jaiswal
-The Telegraph In the letter, Patricia Mukhim mentioned Republic TV managing director Arnab Goswami who was recently arrested in a suicide abetment case Guwahati: Latent disquiet in newsrooms about the way some celebrity anchors are being defended with alacrity and others being left to fend for themselves has spilled out in the open with an editor resigning from the Editors Guild of India. Patricia Mukhim, editor of The Shillong Times, has sent her...
More »13 miners trapped in Meghalaya coal pit -Manosh Das
-The Times of India SHILLONG: Thirteen miners were trapped inside a coal mine in the East Jaintia Hills district on Thursday, bringing into focus again the continuance of illegal and unscientific mining in Meghalaya despite a ban imposed by the National Green Tribunal in 2014. The miners had reportedly gone down a coal pit at Lumthari in the coal belt of East Jaintia Hills. The pit was full of water and upon...
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