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 February 28th, 2026, Day 10 of the Budget Session of the Legislative Assembly of Meghalaya, a Point of Order was raised by the Deputy Chief Minister, Sniawbhalang Dhar regarding a speech made by an ...

Ethnic Khasi people in northeast Bangladesh have lodged a police complaint against the management of a tea estate for allegedly destroying a betel leaf plantation, the mainstay of the community, with ...

For centuries, the Indigenous Khasi people in Bangladesh have been conserving natural forests to sustain their livelihoods. Changing weather is challenging their traditional betel leaf agroforestry, ...

Eight days before Christmas last year, Senseful Dkhar, a 55-year-old schoolteacher, led her fellow Catholics in prayer at a small village church in the northeastern corner of India, where the terrain ...

However, for administrative convenience, particularly in the categorisation of the State’s reservation policy, the Jaintia are hyphenated with the Khasi under the term “Khasi-Jaintia.” While this may ...