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  • Campaign ends; Manipur ready for polls
    Newmai News Network Imphal | March 2   The high-voltage campaigning for the first phase of Manipur assembly polls came to an end at 3 pm today. Manipur is voting first of its two-phase elections on
    / 2nd March 2017
  • NPF candidate’s residence attacked in Imphal, 8 hurt
    Newmai News Network Imphal | Marc 2   Eight people, including two women, were injured when unidentified people lobbed and exploded a powerful bomb at the residence of a Naga People’s Front (NPF) c
    / 2nd March 2017
  • ASAK chief Sangma surrenders in Meghalaya
    Shillong, March 2 (IANS): Meghalaya's most wanted militant, Reading T. Sangma alias Saljapang of A'chik Songna An'pachakgipa Kotok (ASAK), surrendered on Thursday after playing a cat and mouse game with the sec
    / 2nd March 2017
  • NHHDC Ltd invites for National Handloom Expo
    Dimapur, March 2 (MExN): The Nagaland Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation (NHHDC) Ltd. Dimapur, is organizing National Handloom Expo at Gurkha panchayat public Ground, Chandmari colony, Opposite
    Nagaland / 2nd March 2017
  • No room for intolerant Indian, says Mukherjee
    Kochi, March 2 (IANS) Days after a Delhi University student came under vicious attack on social media, President Pranab Mukheree on Thursday said India could afford the "intolerant".   There should b
    / 2nd March 2017
  • As Colombia's FARC disarm, rebels bet on political future
    (REUTERS) Solis Almeyda, rebel commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who uses his nom de guerre, at the FARC’s Tierra Grata demobilization zone in northern Colombia, in the province
    / 2nd March 2017
  • Russia accuses Syrian opposition of sabotaging peace talks
    GENEVA, March 2 (Reuters) - Russia accused the main Syrian opposition group at peace talks in Geneva of sabotaging the process on Thursday, a day after Moscow foreign ministry officials met the rebels for rare
    / 2nd March 2017
  • From the boardroom to the butchers shop, women discuss gender inequality
    LONDON, March 2 (Reuters) - Wednesday March 8 marks International Women's Day, with festivals, concerts and exhibitions among the numerous events planned around the world to celebrate the achievements of women
    / 2nd March 2017
  • Mexico says it will defend rights of its migrants, cooperate with U.N.
    GENEVA, March 2 (Reuters) - A senior Mexican official told a United Nations human rights forum on Thursday that his government would defend the rights of Mexican migrants from discriminatory security measures.
    / 2nd March 2017
  • 98% of government payments in 2016-17 made digitally, says CGA
    New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Controller General of Accounts (CGA) Archana Nigam has said that 98 per cent of the total government transactions in the current fiscal, pegged at Rs 6.05 lakh crore in terms of value,
    / 2nd March 2017
  • Assam government admits to 'large-scale' encroachment
    Guwahati, March 2 (IANS) The Assam government on Thursday admitted to large-scale encroachment on water bodies, forest lands and tribal lands across the state and said the government was undertaking a survey to
    / 2nd March 2017
  • Indian women eat 13% less protein than men: Survey
    New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Women across India consume 13 per cent lesser protein than men, a survey by Delhi-based mobile health and fitness company HealthifyMe has revealed.   The report, titled 'Hea
    / 2nd March 2017
  • Delhi government announces free diagnostic tests for all
    New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Residents of Delhi can now get free radiology tests in 21 private labs if they are referred to by Delhi government hospitals, it was announced on Thursday.   Delhi Health Mi
    / 2nd March 2017
  • Bodos to go on indefinite hunger strike over Bodoland
    New Delhi/Kokrajhar, March 2 (IANS) Several Bodo communities of Assam will go on an indefinite hunger strike starting March 10, followed by road and rail blockades, as part of their campaign for a separate Bodo
    / 2nd March 2017
  • Brains of obese people wired to crave fatty foods
    Melbourne, March 2 (IANS) The brains of obese people could be "wired" to seek out fatty foods, Australian scientists have found.   Researchers from the Bio-Medicine Discovery Institute at Melbourne's
    / 2nd March 2017
  • Meghalaya budget session on Friday
    Shillong, March 2 (IANS) The three-week budget session of the Meghalaya assembly will begin here on Friday.   Speaker Abu Taher Mondal said the Business Advisory Committee of the assembly had finalis
    / 2nd March 2017
  • TMC's Tripura unit former chief resigns from party
    Agartala, March 2 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress's Tripura unit former chief Surajit Datta has resigned from the party, fuelling speculations that he may join either the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or the Congr
    / 2nd March 2017
  • Airtel rated as India's 'Fastest Mobile Network for 2016'
    New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Indias largest telecommunications services provider Bharti Airtel has been rated the 'Fastest Mobile Network for 2016', leading broadband testing and network diagnostic application Ook
    / 2nd March 2017
  • Why a sitting job is bad for your heart and waist
    London, March 2 (IANS) Do you have a desk-bound job? Beware, you may be at a heightened risk of developing cardiovascular diseases by 0.2 per cent and an increase in waist circumference by two cm, for every add
    / 2nd March 2017
  • DRDO radar handed over to Army; to bring down LoC artillery fire: Parrikar
    New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) DRDO's weapon-locating radar Swati was formally handed over to the Indian Army on Thursday, with Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar saying its deployment will reduce artillery fire from
    / 2nd March 2017
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