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‘Absolutely Virtual’ Hornbill Festival
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‘Ciao Diego’: Fans in Nagaland bid farewell to Maradona
27th November 2020 /
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Nagaland: Weddings during COVID
25th November 2020 /
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THE UGLY TRUTH: Kohima’s only morgue in shambles
21st November 2020 /
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Domestic violence in Nagaland: Societal pressure, stigma hold back victims from seeking help
19th November 2020 /
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TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK-II
16th November 2020 /
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TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK
14th November 2020 /
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Wisdom Company: Let’s build something together
10th November 2020 /
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SMALL VILLAGE, BIG DREAMS - II
10th November 2020 /
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SMALL VILLAGE, BIG DREAMS - I
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SPORTS

  • Hardik Pandya targets World Cups to return as bowler
    New Delhi, November 27 (IANS): India's ace all-rounder Hardik Pandya on Friday said that he was focussing and preparing himself to play purely as a batsman till he gets match-ready to bowl. The younger of the two Pandya brothers had a back injury in 2019 and
    Sports / 27th November 2020
  • A kid sitting on the shoulders of a man holds a poster of Maradona in front of the Casa Rosada presidential palace, as people gather to mourn the death of soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 26, 2020. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
    'Adios Diego': Maradona buried as world mourns flawed soccer great
    BUENOS AIRES, November 27 (Reuters) - Argentina's Diego Maradona, one of the world's greatest ever soccer players, was buried on Thursday amid a global outpouring of grief from the streets of Buenos Aires to Naples in Italy. The death of Maradona at the
    Sports / 27th November 2020
  • Cricket - First One Day International - Australia v India - Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia - November 27, 2020 India's Virat Kohli and Australia's Aaron Finch after the match REUTERS/Loren Elliott
    Smith, Finch hit tons as Australia beat India in tour opener
    SYDNEY, November 27 (Reuters) - Steve Smith and Aaron Finch led the way with centuries as Australia opened their home summer with a one-day victory over India by 66 runs on Friday in the first men's international played in front of a crowd since March.
    Sports / 27th November 2020
  • ISL: Bhutia, Barretto can't wait for 'bigger' Kolkata derby
    Panaji, November 27 (IANS): ATK Mohun Bagan and SC East Bengal will square off at the Tilak Maidan Stadium in Vasco on Friday, for the Indian Super League's first-ever Kolkata derby. And Bhaichung Bhutia believes that in the ISL, the Kolkata derby will be bigge
    Sports / 27th November 2020
  • Ferguson, Neesham star as New Zealand beat West Indies in 1st T20I
    Auckland, November 27 (IANS): Incredible performances from pacer Lockie Ferguson and all-rounder James Neesham helped New Zealand beat West Indies by five wickets, via Duckworth-Lewis-Stern Method, in the first T20I at the Eden Park on Friday. In a rail-curtaile
    Sports / 27th November 2020
  • Tennis - ATP Finals - The O2, London, Britain - November 22, 2020 Austria's Dominic Thiem reacts during his final match against Russia's Daniil Medvedev REUTERS/Toby Melville
    Grand Slam box ticked, Thiem targets Tokyo podium
    November 27 (Reuters) - Having fulfilled his dream of joining the Grand Slam winners club by taking the U.S. Open title this year, Austrian Dominic Thiem is setting out his goals for 2021 and hopes to be standing on the podium at the Tokyo Olympics. The 27-year-
    Sports / 27th November 2020
  • Tennis - Australian Open - First Round - Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia - January 20, 2020 - Fans pose with an Australian Open logo. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
    Players can train in Australian Open quarantine, ATP Cup cancelled - report
    MELBOURNE, November 27 (Reuters) - Tennis Australia (TA) has been granted permission by the Victoria state government to allow players to train during their 14-day quarantine ahead of the Australian Open, local media reported on Friday. Organisers have been in l
    Sports / 27th November 2020
  • Soccer Football - Europa League - Group B - Molde v Arsenal - Molde Stadium, Molde, Norway - November 26, 2020 Arsenal's Reiss Nelson scores their second goal NTB via REUTERS/Svein Ove EkornesvÅ“g
    Arsenal and Hoffenheim qualify, emotional win for Napoli
    November 27 (Reuters) - Arsenal's record signing Nicolas Pepe got back in manager Mikel Arteta's good books with the opening goal in his club's 3-0 win at Molde on Thursday that sealed his side's place in the Europa League knockout stages with two g
    Sports / 27th November 2020
  • People gather to mourn the death of soccer legend Diego Maradona, outside the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium, in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 25. (Reuters Photo)
    ‘Ciao Diego’: Fans in Nagaland bid farewell to Maradona
    Rebecca K Kits Dimapur | November 26 FIFA World Cup in the 80s and 90s was a time when almost half the locality would crowd at the house of the lone television owner in the colony. The young and old alike would cheer for their respective teams. One name that
    Morung Exclusive / 27th November 2020
  • CWA mourns wrestler’s demise
    Kohima, November 26 (MExN): The Chakhesang Wrestling Association (CWA) on Thursday expressed sadness at the demise of its member and former wrestler Vedu-o Khusoh, who breathed his last on November 25 at Bethel Hospital, Kohima. According to a condolence note jo
    Sports / 27th November 2020
  • Naga Rising Star Football Academy to provide free coaching
    Dimapur, November 26 (MExN): The Naga Rising Star Football Academy will be organizing a free winter coaching for under-15 years boys from December 7 onwards. Boys enrolling for the free coaching will also be eligible for the coaching in January 2021, the organiz
    Sports / 27th November 2020
  • Champions Rush Hour FC with match officials.
    Rush Hour is KSU Futsal champion 2020
    Kohima, November 26 (MExN): The Kiruphema Students' Union today organised a Futsal and Penalty shootout tournament under the theme 'Kharu Puo Rübei' at Kiruphema. Rush Hour FC emerged as the winner of the KSU Futsal championship 2020 via tie bre
    Sports / 27th November 2020
  • Winter Snooker Open Challenge from December
    Kohima, November 26 (MExN): The Cue Association of Nagaland (CAN) will be organising Winter Snooker Open Challenge from December 9 to 12 at Baulk Line Club and Club Area 51 in Kohima. The champion will earn a cash prize of Rs 60, 000 while runner up will receive
    Sports / 27th November 2020
  • A worker arranges the front pages of Spanish newspapers paying tribute to late soccer legend Diego Maradona at Las Ramblas, in Barcelona, Spain November 26, 2020. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
    'God is dead': newspapers pay tribute to Argentina great Maradona
    November 26 (Reuters) - Diego Maradona's death dominated the front and back pages of newspapers as the world bid farewell to the 'god of football', with his renowned "Hand of God" quote featuring prominently. Maradona died after suffering a
    Sports / 26th November 2020
  • Soccer Football - Ligue 1 - Lorient v Olympique de Marseille - Stade du Moustoir, Lorient, France - October 24, 2020 Olympique de Marseille coach Andre Villas-Boas reacts REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
    FIFA should retire No. 10 shirt after Maradona death: Villas-Boas
    November 26 (Reuters) - Marseille manager Andre Villas-Boas has called on FIFA to retire the number 10 shirt from the game to honour Argentine great Diego Maradona, who died aged 60 on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack. Maradona was regarded as one of the
    Sports / 26th November 2020

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INDIA

  • Special Multi-Media Exhibition on Constitution Day in Kevadia draws appreciation 
    India / 27th November 2020 /
    Kevadia, November 27 (MExN): As India celebrated the 71st Constitution Day with enthusiasm with nation-wide reading of the Preamble led by the President Ram Nath Kovind, a Special Exhibition on the Constitution Day at Kevadia in Gujarat, drew appreciation of parliamentarians and legislator
  • Covid cases down 50% in past 8 weeks, Delhi has 61% of deaths: Centre
    India / 27th November 2020 /
    NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 27 (IANS): Providing details of the overall Covid-19 situation in the country, the Centre has informed the Supreme Court that the average cases per day have reduced by 50 per cent since the past 8 weeks, and currently, only 2 states have more than 50,000 cases, contribu
  • Farmers refuse to leave Sindhu border as agitation 'could weaken'
    India / 27th November 2020 /
    NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 27 (IANS): Even as the Delhi Police on Friday allowed farmers from Punjab, Haryana and elsewhere to hold a peaceful protest against the controversial Agriculture Bills at the Sant Nirankari ground in the capital's Burari area, the farmers refused to leave Delhi
  • Nitish hits back at Tejashwi, asks who made him Deputy CM
    India / 27th November 2020 /
    Patna, November 27 (IANS): After RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's personal attack, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hit back at him and said that Yadav is lying. Nitish Kumar was looking very angry during a speech in the Bihar assembly. He addressed Tejashwi as 'Tum' in Hindi du
  • Modi govt did more good for Muslims than Cong: Naqvi
    India / 27th November 2020 /
    New Delhi, November 27 (IANS): Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has claimed that the Narendra Modi government has done more for Indian Muslims and other minorities in the last six years compared with Congress rule since Independence. He said that while the Ministry of

BUSINESS

  • Analysis: Battle of the billionaires: Bezos, Ambani gun for India retail supremacy
    Business / 27th November 2020 /
    MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, November 27 (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Ambani, two of the world's richest men, face a turning point in a battle for preeminence in India's booming, nearly trillion-dollar retail market. The outcome of a legal dispute which has embroiled the billionaires&
  • Vivo V20 Pro confirmed to launch in India on Dec 2
    Business / 27th November 2020 /
    NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 27 (IANS): Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has announced to launch a new member in its V20 series -- the Vivo V20 Pro -- in India on December 2. It will be the third smartphone in the V20 series after Vivo V20 and Vivo V20 SE. "Sleek is fast too! #vivoV20Pro #S
  • Indian economy probably picked up in September quarter as hopes grow for vaccine
    Business / 27th November 2020 /
    NEW DELHI, November 27 (Reuters) - India's economy is likely to have shown signs of a pick-up in the quarter to September after a record contraction the previous quarter, and is expected to recover early next year on hopes of better consumer demand fed by progress on coronavirus vaccin
  • Petrol and diesel prices rise again
    Business / 26th November 2020 /
    NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 26 (IANS): Petrol and diesel prices rose sharply on Thursday after a day's pause as global oil prices remained firm reaching the highest levels this fiscal. Petrol prices increased by 11 paise per litre to Rs 81.70 per litre on Thursday from Rs 81.59 a litre on t
  • Indian economy exhibited stronger pick up than expected: RBI Guv
    Business / 26th November 2020 /
    MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 26 (IANS): The Indian economy has exhibited stronger pick up in momentum of recovery than expected, said Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday. Addressing the 4th Annual Day of Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association of India (FEDAI), he cited tha

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HEALTH

  • Russia agrees to produce coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V in India
    Health / 27th November 2020 /
    MOSCOW, November 27 (Reuters) - Russia's sovereign wealth fund and Indian pharmaceutical company Hetero have agreed to produce over 100 million doses per year in India of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, according to a statement on the Sputnik V Twitter account on Friday. Het
  • Pneumonia vaccine may reduce impact of Covid-19: Study
    Health / 26th November 2020 /
    SYDNEY, NOVEMBER 26 (IANS): Pneumonia vaccines can potentially reduce the impact of viruses such as Covid-19, said researchers, adding that it has reduced illness and death in patients with pneumonia, serious lung conditions and rotavirus, a common disease which causes severe diarrhoea and
  • High BP in midlife is linked to increased brain damage: Study
    Health / 26th November 2020 /
    LONDON, NOVEMBER 26 (IANS): Researchers have revealed that higher than normal blood pressure (BP) is linked to more extensive brain damage in the elderly, suggesting that it is important to control blood pressure long-term. The study, published in the journal European Heart Journal, fou
  • Adults, children must move more to stay fit in pandemic era - WHO
    Health / 26th November 2020 /
    GENEVA, November 26 (Reuters) - All adults should do a minimum of 150 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week, even more vital for well-being and mental health in the COVID-19 era, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday in its first guidance in a decade. It recomme
  • No benefit seen from plasma treatment in severe COVID-19; virus may hurt male fertility
    Health / 26th November 2020 /
    November 26 (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Plasma treatment shows no benefit in severe COVID-19 Blood plasma from COVID

FEATURED NEWS

  • Pele vs Maradona: A rivalry that found peace in bitterness
    Featured News / 27th November 2020 /
    New Delhi, November 27 (IANS): On October 1, 1977, Brazilian football superstar Pele was handed the microphone to address the crowd ahead of a friendly between New York Cosmos, the team he had played with for over two years, and his beloved Santos, where his career started and reached dizz
  • Maradona & Messi: Two symbolic extremes of a football superstar
    Featured News / 26th November 2020 /
    NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 26 (IANS): A glance at the statistics and some hard facts would show that as far as their individual careers are concerned, Lionel Messi has eclipsed his legendary former Argentina coach Diego Maradona, who passed away on Wednesday. At the international level, 33-yea
  • One key conspirator of 26/11 attacks still missing
    Featured News / 26th November 2020 /
    NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 26 (IANS): Twelve years after the Mumbai terror attacks in which 166 people were killed and over 300 wounded, one of the key conspirators along with David Coleman Headley and Tawahhur Hussain Rana, is still missing. A Pakistani national from Lahore, Sajid Mir, who we
  • Maradona goes off to shake the Hand of God (Obituary)
    Featured News / 26th November 2020 /
    New Delhi, November 25 (IANS): Widely rated as the greatest footballer of all time, there was no stopping Diego Maradona's aura from reaching levels of divinity wherever he went, with or without the ball on his feet. His murals, most of which show him with a halo behind or over his hea
  • To reopen or not to reopen: That is the fraught question for U.S. schools
    Featured News / 25th November 2020 /
    By Kristina Cooke, Benjamin Lesser and M.B. Pell November 25 (Reuters) - After a two-week deluge of calls and messages from parents - and at least one death threat - the school board in Chandler, Arizona, called a special meeting this fall. The board would revisit its decision, promp

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