The Forgotten Folklore Project has collected 45 tales from the Garo, Jaintia and Khasi hills, and turned them into illustrated story books for children. Eleanor Sangma, 28, recalls how she and ...

Indian Army will soon raise Khasi, Jaintia and Garo companies, in keeping with the concept of the Home and Hearth Territorial Army (TA) battalion, to recruit, train and employ youth from specified ...

Traditions and cultural practices of the Khasi and Jaintia and Garo tribes dominate ... Traditionally bridal parties choose between Jainsem or Dhara as wedding attire which are handmade with ...

The girl demurely draped in traditional Khasi “jainsem”, who serves tea and ... inhuman conditions in several rat-hole coal mines in Jaintia Hills, even remotely figure in the scheme-of ...

Meghalaya has imposed night curfews along the Indo-Bangladesh border in East Khasi Hills and West Jaintia Hills districts to prevent cross-border infiltration, smuggling, and militant activity.

Meghalaya, a north-eastern tribal state in India, is inhabited by three tribal communities: The Khasi, Jaintia, and Garo. The Khasi community primarily reside in the East and West Khasi Hills, the ...

Pollution of the Myntdu river in Meghalaya's West Jaintia Hills district has caught the attention of the Prime Minister's Office and the Brahmaputra Board has been asked to furnish a report to the PMO ...

Although the “Khasi and Jaintia Hills”, as the name appears on maps, are connected by a high ridge with the Naga Hills, they form no part of them, being very much older.

The bodies of six migrant workers from Assam were recovered Friday from deep inside a 150-foot pit at an illegally operated coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills - the same district in which ...

A high alert has been sounded in the Khasi and Jaintia hills of Meghalaya due to security concerns after the recent killing of two men, reported PTI on Wednesday. The two men, both non-tribals ...