East Khasi Hills Deputy Commissioner Abhilash Baranwal has dismissed concerns that Bangladeshi nationals could misuse Khasi surnames to get their names included in the electoral rolls during the ...

When it comes to rainfall, no place on Earth receives as much rain as Mawsynram. It is a small village in the East Khasi ...

Home to the world's highest average annual rainfall, this North-Eastern village offers dramatic landscapes, roaring ...

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 ...

Shillong: Khasi Authors' Society convened its annual general council in the city on Saturday to deliberate on several critical and long-standing concerns related to the Khasi language and its place ...

Shillong, 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 ...

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 ...

As a part of the tradition, a portion of the bride's wedding attire as well as jewellery is given by the groom. The bride dresses herself in traditional Khasi outfit for her wedding day. She wears a ...

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.