A Bill that seeks to strip Khasi women of their inheritance rights if they adopt their non-tribal husbands' customs and tradition was tabled in a tribal council in matrilineal Meghalaya on Monday. On ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council in Meghalaya has laid down the “conditions” to be a Khasi while giving a six-month deadline to those who have drawn their lineage from the father to return ...

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 ...

Teacher Fatima Mynsong tells of how she spoke up against corruption and pushed for change in India's Khasi tribe. This is the second of a four-part daily series in which The Straits Times documents ...

Long before climate conferences, carbon credits and biodiversity targets entered global vocabulary, communities in the hills of Meghalaya were already protecting forests with something far older — ...

More than 180 years after he arrived in the Khasi Hills, the legacy of Welsh missionary Rev Thomas Jones continues to be felt across the Khasi-Jaintia region. His greatest contribution—the ...