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  • Rapist of Nagaland woman arrested
    New Delhi, February 21 (IANS) Police on Tuesday said they had arrested a man on charges of raping a woman from Nagaland over the weekend near a popular hangout in south Delhi.   Deputy Commissioner o
    / 21st February 2017
  • 5 die as plane crashes into a Melbourne mall
    SYDNEY, February 21 (Reuters): A pilot and four American passengers were killed on Tuesday when a small plane crashed in to the roof of a shopping mall after taking off from an airfield outside Melbourne, Austr
    / 21st February 2017
  • PDP minister back, crisis far from over
    Jammu, February 21 (IANS) Although one of the two PDP ministers who quit has rejoined office and the other has promised to do so soon, the crisis persists in Jammu and Kashmir's main ruling party.  
    / 21st February 2017
  • Ivanka Trump calls for religious tolerance
    Washington, February 21 (IANS) Ivanka Trump, US President Donald Trump's oldest daughter and a Jewish convert, has issued a statement on Twitter calling for "religious tolerance" after a wave of threats against
    / 21st February 2017
  • e-payment reward: 10 lakh users get Rs 153.5 crore
    New Delhi, February 21 (IANS) The government has given over Rs 153.5 crore reward money to nearly 10 lakh citizens under its scheme to incentivise digital payments and make India a less cash economy, NITI Aayog
    / 21st February 2017
  • Anti-Trump rallies crop up again on 'Not My President's Day'
    NEW YORK/CHICAGO, February 21 (Reuters) - Renewed protests against U.S. President Donald Trump flared on the Presidents Day holiday on Monday, with grassroots activists vowing to take to the streets in dozens o
    / 21st February 2017
  • Manipur Deputy CM escapes militant attack
    Imphal, February 21 (IANS) Manipur Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam on Tuesday escaped an attack on his life by a tribal militant outfit in Tamenglong district.   The ambush was reported at 10.30 a.m
    / 21st February 2017
  • India keen to take down Australia for perfect end to season
    NEW DELHI, February 21 (Reuters) - The Indian test juggernaut, with Virat Kohli at the wheel, has crushed almost everything in its path over the last 18 months and Australia will have to conjure up something sp
    / 21st February 2017
  • U.N. says 1.4 million children at imminent risk of death in famines
    GENEVA, February 21 (Reuters) - Nearly 1.4 million children are at "imminent risk" of death in famines in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Tuesday.  
    / 21st February 2017
  • Reliance Jio to offer bargain rates, crosses 100 million customers
    MUMBAI, February 21 (Reuters) - Reliance Industries' Jio telecoms unit will charge a tariff for its services from April, but will offer sharp discounts for a year to those who sign up by the end of March, billi
    / 21st February 2017
  • ASEAN unsettled by China weapon systems, tension in South China Sea
    BORACAY, Philippines, February 21 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian countries see China's installation of weapons systems in the South China Sea as "very unsettling" and have urged dialogue to stop an escalation of "
    / 21st February 2017
  • Tata Sons' new chairman to focus on shareholder returns, capital allocation
    NEW DELHI, February 21 (Reuters) - Tata Sons, the holding company of the $100-billion Tata group, will focus on boosting shareholder returns and tightening capital allocation rules, newly-appointed chairman Nat
    / 21st February 2017
  • France's Le Pen cancels meet with Lebanon grand mufti over headscarf
    BEIRUT, February 21 (Reuters) - French far-right National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting on Tuesday with Lebanon's grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to
    / 21st February 2017
  • China says N. Korean coal ban shows its sincerity on U.N. resolutions
    BEIJING, February 21 (Reuters) - China's suspension of imports of North Korean coal shows it is sincere about implementing U.N. Security Council resolutions punishing North Korea over its nuclear weapons and mi
    / 21st February 2017
  • Xinjiang to track vehicles as an anti-terror measure
    BEIJING, February 21 (Reuters): Chinese authorities have ordered all motor vehicles in Bayingol prefecture in far-western Xinjiang to be installed with mandatory satellite tracking devices, the latest tough ant
    / 21st February 2017
  • FARC rebels to start disarmament process
    BOGOTA, February 21 (Reuters): Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels can begin surrendering their weapons to the United Nations now that almost 7,000 of them have reached designated demobilization zones around the cou
    / 21st February 2017
  • Going Beyond the Gender Divide in Nagaland
    Sanjoy Hazarika The Wire   The anger over constitutional reservations for women is being expressed in a negative way only because of a larger atmosphere of frustration in the state   As the conf
    Public Space / 21st February 2017
  • Woman from NL allegedly assaulted in south Delhi
    Morung Express News Dimapur | February 20   A woman from Nagaland, in her 20s, was allegedly sexually assaulted by an unidentified man in the wee hours of February 19.   “A case has bee
    / 21st February 2017
  • JCC lifts state-wide boycott
    Morung Express News Dimapur | February 20   The Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) lifted the state-wide boycott of Nagaland state government offices on February 20. The decision to withdraw the bandh
    Nagaland / 21st February 2017
  • NPCC reiterates demand for President’s Rule, early polls
    Dimapur, February 20 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today reiterated its demand for the imposition of President’s Rule and called for an early election in Nagaland.   &ldqu
    Nagaland / 21st February 2017
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