The Shillong Times is an Indian newspaper. It is North-East India

North-East India

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's second oldest English-language

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 daily) started as a tabloid-sized weekly on August 10, 1945, on a treadle machine in Shillong

Shillong

-Connectivity:Although well connected by road, Shillong has no rail connection and a proper air connection. Umroi Airport exists but has only limited flights.-Roadways:Shillong is well connected by roads with all major north eastern states...

. S. B. Chaudhuri was its founding editor and proprietor.

Parsva Nath Chaudhuri bought the newspaper

Newspaper

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 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

Typesetting

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 and offset printing technique on August 15, 1991 and the first issue in broadsheet

Broadsheet

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 format came into being.

A second edition from the town of Tura in the Garo Hills of Meghalaya

Meghalaya

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 was launched on November 9, 1992.

Besides the Tura edition Shillong Times Private Limited also publishes the only Garo language

Garo language

Garo is the language of the majority of the people of the Garo Hills in the Indian state of Meghalaya. Garo is also used in Kamrup, Dhubri, Goalpara and the Darrang districts of Assam, India as well as in neighboring Bangladesh...

daily Salantini Janera.

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