Shillong

SHILLONG - Shillong Lajong F.C.

SHILLONG - A Shillong ensemble has won what are perhaps India's first golds at a choir Olympics, claiming three of the medals at the sixth edition of the event at Shaoxing in China.

SHILLONG - The Queen's Baton Relay for the 2010 Commonwealth Games Wednesday reached Meghalaya capital Shillong amid much fanfare.

SHILLONG - Alongside the soccer fever touching new heights during the FIFA World Cup tournament, the cash registers at almost all the outlets of sports goods in Shillong are also ringing.

SHILLONG - You are not the only one waiting impatiently for the 2010 FIFA World Cup to start at Johannesburg in South Africa June 11 -- a tiny insect in a remote corner of the earth is also expected to join the football frenzy! Residents in Meghalaya's Ri-Bhoi district are waiting to welcome the Niangtaser, an insect species -- of Chremistica genus of the Cicada family -- that emerges from the ground every four years, typically one month ahead of the world cup football tournament.