Meghalaya is all set to host the upcoming 2nd edition of the North East Olympics from October the 30th to November the 6th in Shillong. A joint meeting of the North East Organising Committee, Meghalaya Department of Sports and Youth Affairs, and the North East Olympic Association was held last evening to finalize the list […]
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Chief Minister of Meghalaya, Conrad K Sangma has inaugurated the new building of the Directorate of Education Research and Training (DERT), Shillong. During the ceremony, he has announced that govt has set aside Rs 300 crore from the externally aided projects to make investment in early childhood education programmes. The state govt has also prepared a road map to invest in early
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Meghalaya’s living root bridges get listed on the tentative list of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites. Living root bridges are the type of simple suspension bridge formed by the method of tree shaping from living plant roots across a stream or river. These bridges are locally known as Jingkieng Jri. ‘Ficus Elastica’ tree is used to make living bridges
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The Meghalaya Cabinet approved a proposal to upgrade the Mairang civil sub-division to a full-fledged district called Eastern West Khasi Hills district. Mairang is now a sub-division under the West Khasi Hills district. The new district will be inaugurated on November 10, 2021, by Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma. This will increase the total number of districts in the
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the Green Sohra Afforestation Campaign at Sohra (Cherrapunji), Meghalaya. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 He gave the slogan “Evergreen Northeast”, underlining the importance of afforestation and tree plantation. This afforestation campaign will be run by the Meghalaya Government with the help of Assam Rifles, this will greatly benefit eco-tourism
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Meghalaya has yielded India’s first bamboo-dwelling bat with sticky disks, taking the species count of the flying mammal in the country to 130. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The disc-footed bat (Eudiscopus denticulus) was recorded in the north-eastern State’s Lailad area near the Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary, about 1,000 km west of its nearest known habitat
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Stiff resistance from at least 12 villages in Meghalaya has cast a cloud on a 210 MW hydroelectric project on Umngot, considered India’s clearest river. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The villages are near the border with Bangladesh in East Khasi Hills district but the dam is proposed upstream in the adjoining West Jaintia Hills
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Meghalaya State Assembly Speaker Metbah Lygdoh visited Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Secretariat in Itanagar to get first-hand information about the National e-Vidhan project implemented in the Assembly. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 e-Vidhan is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) included in Digital India Programme and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA) is the ‘Nodal Ministry’ for
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Nature never ceases to amaze or surprise us with its secrets. A new variety of mushrooms has been discovered in the forests of Northeast India during a mushroom documentation project which glows like the northern lights. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The new species — named Roridomyces phyllostachydis — was first sighted on a
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The Government of India, the Government of Meghalaya and the World Bank signed a $120 million project to improve and modernise the transport sector of state of Meghalaya. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This will help Meghalaya to harness its vast growth potential for high-value agriculture and tourism. The project will improve about 300
