Shillong, July 27 (PTI) A Bill passed recently by the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) to “protect the lineage and indigenousness” of its tribe has come in the eye of storm, with ...

Alongside its tea estates, one thing that tourists also look to relish while visiting Sylhet is the local betel leaf cultivated there, also known as Khasi Paan. Grown by the Khasis, an indigenous ...

Bangladeshi rights activists and civil society representatives called for an immediate halt on an alleged attempt by the Forest department to evict dozens of Christian tribal Khasi villagers through ...

On July 26, members of a little-known Khasi nativist group stopped tourist taxis about 25 km from Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya. Members of the Hynniewtrep National Youth Federation insisted that ...

Shillong: A united delegation representing the Synjuk Ki Rangbah Kur: Ka Bri U Hynniewtrep — a confederation of Khasi clans — met with the chief executive member (CEM) of the Khasi Hills Autonomous ...

Over the weekend, even as the National People’s Party staked claim to form a new government in Meghalaya, the capital Shillong descended into a familiar turmoil. An act of arson in the dead of the ...

KOLKATA: For hundreds of years, Meghalaya's Khasi community, the largest ethnic group in the northeastern state, has followed a rare matrilineal system, where lineage and inheritance pass through the ...

There is no existence of dowry system in traditional Meghalaya weddings. An interesting fact about marriages in Khasi tribe is that the groom shifts into the bride's ancestral place after marriage.

festival over financial hardships, the indigenous Khasi community in the greater Sylhet region yesterday said they will be celebrating their New Year celebration as usual, thanks to the government's ...

During monsoon season in northeast India, rainwater gushes through the emerald valleys and deep gorges of Meghalaya, the“abode of the clouds.” The mountainous plateau between Assam and Bangladesh is ...