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  • Kohima rappers take on ‘The Ten Toes Challenge’
    Morung Express Entertainment   ‘The Ten Toes Challenge’ is an initiative that was started by producer BubbaGotBeatz. The dare is designed for individuals to basically drop bars over a particula
  • Mexico fireworks market explosions kill at least 31
    TULTEPEC, December 21 (Reuters): A series of massive explosions destroyed a fireworks market outside the Mexican capital on Tuesday, killing at least 31 people, injuring dozens and leaving the market a charred
  • German cops seek Tunisian in hunt for market attacker
    BERLIN, December 21 (Reuters): German police are looking for a Tunisian man after finding an identity document under the driver's seat of the truck that ploughed into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 peopl
  • How NKorean seafood ends up in countries that ban it
    YANJI, December 21 (Reuters): The brightly coloured packages advertising "Walleye Pollock" at the West Market in Yanji, a Chinese city near the border with North Korea, say the fish came from China.  
  • US tightens sanctions against North Korea's UN diplomats
    WASHINGTON, December 21 (Reuters): The U.S. Treasury Department tightened sanctions against North Korean diplomats to the United Nations, requiring banks to get special permission before granting them accounts,
  • Obama bans oil drilling in Arctic
    Washington, December 21 (IANS): US President Barack Obama has permanently banned offshore drilling in areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.   According to the White House, Obama's move on Tuesday
  • UN human rights chief urges murder inquiry into Prez Duterte's killing claim
    MANILA, December 21 (Reuters): The United Nations human rights commission has urged the Philippines to launch a murder investigations into President Rodrigo Duterte claims he killed three people as mayor of Dav
  • IT raids TN Chief Secretary’s residence
    Chennai, December 21 (IANS): Leaders of Tamil Nadu's opposition DMK and PMK demanded immediate dismissal of Chief Secretary P.Rama Mohana Rao, whose residence was raided on Wednesday by Income Tax officials.
  • Feminism Helps Villagers Coexist with Drought in Northeast Brazil
    Mario Osava Inter Press Service   “The vegetable garden changed my life,” said Rita Alexandre da Silva, in the village of Primeiro do Maio where 65 families have obtained land to grow crops sinc
  • Corruption and caste keep poor from owning land in north India
    Rina Chandran Thomson Reuters Foundation   For decades, Kunta lived in a hut outside Kachhidih village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, enduring the insults of higher-caste villagers who cla
  • Boosting women farmers would dramatically cut world hunger
    Alex Whiting Thomson Reuters Foundation     If women farmers were given the same access to land, tools and credit as men, the boost to crop yields would dramatically cut world hunger, but t
  • United Naga Council demands President’s Rule
    NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 20 (IANS): The United Naga Council, which represents the Nagas living in Manipur, met Home Minister Rajnath Singh here on Tuesday and demanded that President's Rule be imposed in the state i
  • EGM to censure inflammatory statements
      IMPHAL, DECEMBER 20 (NNN): Concerned over the escalating tension between different communities prevailing in Manipur, the Editors' Guild Manipur (EGM) has decided to censure press statements by variou
  • Desist from adopting a policy of confrontation: NPCC
    Wrong of NSF to resort to economic blockade, says Therie DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 20 (MExN): In the backdrop of the escalating tension in Manipur, the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) president K Therie o
  • 4,000 paramilitary personnel rushed to Manipur
      NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 20 (PTI): The Centre has rushed around 4,000 paramilitary personnel to Manipur in the wake of violence following economic blockade on National Highways connecting the state. While
  • 6 NNPGs urge Nagas & Meities to tackle all issues diplomatically
    DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 20 (MExN): The Working Group of six Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) on Tuesday urged the leaders of the two communities-Naga and Meitei in Manipur to sit across the table and tackle the
  • CBSE body recommends making Board exams for Class X mandatory from 2018
    New Delhi, December 20 (PTI): Board exams for Class X are set to become compulsory for all CBSE students from 2018 as CBSE's Governing body today "unanimously approved" a proposal in this regard.   A
  • Public Notice
      DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 20 (MExN): In view of the prevailing law and order situation in parts of Manipur and the subsequent blockades of the highways, the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur has issued a notice to pu
  • AR rebuts allegation
    DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 20 (MExN): The Assam Rifles has refuted the allegations made by the GPRN/NSCN on December 16 in the local dailies over the arrest of its cadres at Naginimora under Mon district. PRO Assam Rifl
  • More oppose observance of Good Governance Day on December 25
    Kohima, December 20 (MExN): The opposition towards observing Good Governance Day on December 25 is growing with more organizations, including Naga Hoho, appealing to change the date today.     Naga
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