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Sunday Monitor
Love vs law: Can POCSO cases be quashed in consensual relationships?
What happens when love between two young people ends up inside a courtroom? Can the law make space for human…
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What triggered the GHADC controversy before polls
The trouble over the participation of non-tribals in the election to the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council has snowballed into…
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We need to be careful about ‘glass traps’ for birds in Shillong
Recently, 10 long-tailed broadbills died while flying from the Umiam lakeside towards the city. They collided with the glass façade…
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Shillong’s drinking water crisis: Contaminated & unsafe
Last December, Indore in Madhya Pradesh made headlines when several people died and over 100 were hospitalised after consuming contaminated…
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Education, open conversations must to control HIV epidemic in Meghalaya
Earlier this year, when Meghalaya’s health department admitted a 221% increase in the number of HIV cases in the past…
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Psychological crises behind children’s attention-seeking behaviour
Let me narrate a few incidents from the state police’s crime files: In January this year, a 19-year-old was allegedly…
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Tourist taxi strike: States need to work together to solve problem
Imagine arriving at Jorabat, just a few kilometres away from Shillong, only to find you’re stuck because the taxi you…
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