Browsing Archive: September, 2011

THE OTHER SIDE OF BUS SERVICE

Posted by Subash Deb on Saturday, September 24, 2011, In : Letters to the Editor (The Shillong Times) BY Subash Deb 

 

Kudos to the present government for easing the burden of citizens. We welcome the new public transport system in Shillong. Moreover, this may be a lesson for alleged errant drivers who packed their vehicles to capacity ignoring the comfort of the passengers and fleece the passengers by over charging fares from them, though they ferry them to their destinations on time. The East Khasi Hills Taxi Drivers and Owners Association should make sincere efforts to bring those erra...
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TAXI STRIKE JUSTIFIED

Posted by Subash Deb on Saturday, September 24, 2011, In : Letters to the Editor (The Shillong Times) BY Subash Deb 

The move by the UPA Led congress government to hike the price of petrol by 5 rupees has affected the common people who are already reeling under inflation. This sudden hike is the result of erratic policy of the Union government on fuel pricing.

With the increase in petrol prices the cost to motor car owners and taxi drivers increases. Nobody is bothered if the car owners suffer a cost increase. But the taxi driver can not absorb the increase in petrol costs. He has to in...


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A BRIEF PROFILE


Subash Deb is an active youth, entrepreneur and passionate writer. He is a keen volunteer, lending his free time to children struggling with their lives. 'AASHINA', an NGO in the making, is a long time pursuit that Deb has been engaged into for materializing home for hundreds and thousands of famished children.

About The Shillong Times

The Shillong Times is an Indian newspaper. It is North-East India's second oldest English-language daily) started as a tabloid-sized weekly on August 10, 1945, on a treadle machine in Shillong. S. B. Chaudhuri was its founding editor and proprietor.

Parsva Nath Chaudhuri bought the newspaper and the press in 1961, and also took over as editor. Following his death on April 1, 1978, his youngest son Manas Chaudhuri took over the management of the paper.

The Shillong Times switched to modern computer typesetting and offset printing technique on August 15, 1991 and the first issue in broadsheet format came into being.

A second edition from the town of Tura in the Garo Hills of Meghalaya was launched on November 9, 1992.

Besides the Tura edition Shillong Times Private Limited also publishes the only Garo language daily Salantini Janera.

Shillong Times has a daily circulation of 17,100 copies, while its sister publication Salantini Janera sells 29,465 copies.

The Shillong Times has always provided a support and platfrom for budding writers to express their views. It is a privilege for the writers to have their articles published in this esteemed daily.

 

 

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