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  • Philimi Welfare Kohima celebrates silver jubilee
    Morung Express News Dimapur | December 27   Philimi Kuqhakulu Kohima (Philimi Welfare Kohima) celebrated its 25 years of existence on Tuesday at Highland Park (IG Stadium Kohima) attended by a host of
    Nagaland / 27th December 2016
  • Holy Family Church attain 25 years
    Chumukedima, December 27 (MExN): The Holy Family Church, Nagaland Police Campus, Chumukedima, celebrated the Silver Jubilee with Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima as the main celebrant on December 2
    Nagaland / 27th December 2016
  • SFS Community Centre at Kohima launched
    Kohima, December 27 (MExN): The newly renovated community centre of St. Francis de Sales Parish, Kohima town at Merhülietsa colony (Paramedical), was blessed and inaugurated on December 21 by Most Rev. Dr.
    Nagaland / 27th December 2016
  • Indian m-wallet market expected to be Rs 1,512 bn by FY22
    Hyderabad, Dec 27 (IANS) The mobile-wallet market in India is expected to grow at over 190 per cent to reach Rs 1,512 billion by financial year 2022 from the current level of about Rs.1.5 billion, says a study
    / 27th December 2016
  • Will enable 5 mn merchants go digital in 2017: Paytm
    New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) Announcing that it will enable five million merchants to leapfrog to digital payments in 2017, mobile payment and e-commerce platform Paytm on Tuesday launched an array of new features
    / 27th December 2016
  • Thai police call off raid on scandal-hit Buddhist temple
    BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police on Tuesday called off a raid to arrest a prominent Buddhist monk wanted for suspected money laundering after devotees barricaded entrances to his sprawling temple complex in a Ba
    / 27th December 2016
  • Russia finds first black box from Black Sea crash jet
    MOSCOW. DECEMBER 27(Reuters) - Russia has found the first flight recorder from a military plane that crashed into the Black Sea killing all 92 on board, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday, amid unconfirmed re
    / 27th December 2016
  • Jet Airways plane skids off Goa runway, 12 hurt
    MUMBAI. December 27  (Reuters) - A Jet Airways Boeing 737 aircraft with 161 people on board veered off an airport runway in Goa shortly before take off just before daybreak on Tuesday, crossing a field before
    / 27th December 2016
  • Maids, brick makers, children: the faces of slavery in 2016 driving change
    CHENNAI, India, December 27  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Housemaids, brick makers, labourers, textile workers, fleeing migrants and children risking their lives in mica mines. These were the faces of moder
    / 27th December 2016
  • Global diamond business roiled as cash crunch hits Indian stone cutting
      SURAT, India/TORONTO (Reuters) - The global diamond industry is facing disruption that could stretch through the first few months of next year, including Valentine's Day in February, as a result of Pr
    / 27th December 2016
  • Pakistan rejects call to demonetize 5,000-rupee note
    ISLAMABAD.  (Reuters) - Pakistan's government has dismissed a recommendation from the upper house of parliament to scrap the 5,000 rupee ($48) bank note to cut the flow of illicit money and reduce the size of
    / 27th December 2016
  • Demonetisation puzzle: How will PM's black money scheme work after Dec 30?
    New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi's black money scheme be valid after December 30? The question takes on importance because old Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes would no longer be allowed to b
    / 27th December 2016
  • Pope, India must help release Priest from IS: relative
    Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 27 (IANS) A close relative of the IS abducted Catholic Priest Thomas Uzhunnallil on Tuesday urged Pope Francis and the Indian government to secure his release.   Uzhunnallil h
    / 27th December 2016
  • Raheel Sharif didn't help me to leave the country: Musharraf
    Islamabad, December 26 (IANS): A week after an interview that made headlines, former Pakistan President General (retd) Pervez Musharraf said on Monday he never sent a "request" to ex-army chief General Raheel S
    / 26th December 2016
  • Four held for US woman's gang-rape
    New Delhi, December 26 (IANS): Four persons, including a tourist guide, have been arrested here on charges of sexually assaulting a US tourist here in March this year, police said on Monday.   Anirud
    / 26th December 2016
  • ED finds over Rs 104 crore deposits in BSP account
    New Delhi, December 26 (IANS): The Enforcement Directorate has detected over Rs 104 crore in an account linked to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and around Rs 1.5 crore in the account of party chief Mayawati's broth
    / 26th December 2016
  • 102 more villages electrified last week
    New Delhi, December 26 (IANS): A total of 102 villages in eight states were electrified under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna in the week ended December 25, the government said on Monday.  
    / 26th December 2016
  • 'Rogue One' dominating holiday box office, 'Sing' solid
    LOS ANGELES, December 26 (Reuters): "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" remains powerful at the U.S. holiday box office with a dominant $15 million on Christmas Eve and projections of a $120 million-plus haul over t
    / 26th December 2016
  • Modi eyes real estate assets in drive against graft
    NEW DELHI, December 26 (Reuters): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has quietly plugged a tax loophole used by the wealthy to buy real estate in someone else’s name as part of his campaign against corruption, a se
    / 26th December 2016
  • Myanmar says Muslim with links to government murdered in troubled Rakhine
    YANGON, December 26 (Reuters): A man has been found dead with stab wounds in Myanmar's Rakhine State, in what the government said on Monday was the second murder in under a week of a Rohingya who cooperated wit
    / 26th December 2016
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