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  • Stuck in traffic jams? It may up risk of cancer
    London, August 26 (IANS) Apart from wasting your time, long traffic jams may cause exposure to toxic fumes, and potentially increase various health risks, including cancer, say researchers, one of them of India
    / 26th August 2016
  • Sarkozy to ban burkini in France if re-elected
    Paris, August 26 (IANS) Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has pledged to impose a nationwide ban on the burkini -- full-body swimsuit worn by Muslim women -- if he is re-elected next year.   Wh
    / 26th August 2016
  • Kashmir unrest: Curfew, shutdown continue to cripple life
    Srinagar, August 26 (IANS) There was no let up in the government-imposed curfew and separatist-called shutdown on Friday, the 49th day of Kashmir unrest that has brought life to a standstill in the troubled val
    / 26th August 2016
  • The Naga Blog
    The Naga Blog is a forum on facebook where Nagas from Nagaland and around the world network, share ideas and discuss a wide range of topics from politics and philosophy to music  and current events in Naga
    People-Life-Etc / 26th August 2016
  • Want no cookie cutter beauty queen: Lara Dutta
    Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS) Former Miss Universe Lara Dutta, who is going to mentor finalists who will compete with one another to represent the country at the prestigious Miss Universe pageant, says she's on the loo
    / 26th August 2016
  • Sonam Kapoor to campaign against malnutrition
    Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS) Actress Sonam Kapoor has been roped in to be the Goodwill Ambassador for Fight Hunger Foundation, a NGO dedicated to the fight against malnutrition.   The organisation is active
    / 26th August 2016
  • Lifestyle changes to prevent diabetes can also cut cancer risk: Experts
    New Delhi, August 26 (IANS) It may sound exaggerated but the unprecedented growth in Type-2 diabetes over the past 15 years and the deadly rise of cancer have a few common -- some even modifiable -- risk factor
    / 26th August 2016
  • Smoke from Indonesian fires hits 'unhealthy' level in Singapore
    SINGAPORE, August 26 (Reuters) - Air pollution in Singapore rose to the "unhealthy" level on Friday as acrid smoke drifted over the island from fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the city-state's National Env
    / 26th August 2016
  • Myanmar army chief reshuffles officers, promotes intelligence chief
    YANGON, August 26 (Reuters) - Myanmar's army chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, reshuffled top posts on Friday, promoting his intelligence chief and other officers leading efforts to present the military as
    / 26th August 2016
  • Dirty laundry: Welspun tangle highlights India's quality challenge
    MUMBAI, August 26 (Reuters) - Questions over the exact provenance of bedsheets sold by Welspun India to America's middle classes have not only wiped $740 million off the firm's market value, but also revived on
    / 26th August 2016
  • Modi goaded Pakistan in deliberate yet risky move
    NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD, August 26 (Reuters) - When Prime Minister Narendra Modi met top aides to prepare last week's annual Independence Day address, some senior bureaucrats warned him against mentioning Baluchist
    / 26th August 2016
  • Suicide truck bomb blamed on PKK kills 11 police in Turkey
    ANKARA/KARKAMIS, Turkey, August 26 (Reuters) - A suicide truck bombing at a police headquarters in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast killed at least 11 and wounded dozens on Friday, two days after Turkey launc
    / 26th August 2016
  • Italy quake death toll hits 267, state funeral plan
    PESCARA DEL TRONTO, Italy, August 26 (Reuters) - Hopes of finding more survivors faded on Friday three days after a powerful earthquake hit central Italy, with the death toll rising to 267 and the rescue operat
    / 26th August 2016
  • Clinton, Trump suffer from high unpopularity among likely voters: Poll
    Washington, August 26 (IANS) More than half of the likely voters, or 53 per cent, said they had "strongly unfavourable" views of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, while 46 per cent said the same abo
    / 26th August 2016
  • 'Trump's tariff plan would spark another war with China'
    Beijing, August 26 (IANS) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to slap tariffs on Chinese exports to the US would renew a damaging trade war between the world's two largest economies, said
    / 26th August 2016
  • The unholy nexus that began World War II - the full story (Book Review)
    By Vikas Datta IANS | August 26, 2016 Title: The Devils' Alliance - Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941; Author: Roger Moorhouse; Publisher: Vintage/Random House India; Pages: 400; Price: Rs 599  
    / 26th August 2016
  • White House officials meet Trump, Clinton teams
    Washington, August 26 (IANS) Top White House officials met representatives of the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns to "ensure a smooth transition to the next administration" which will take office on
    / 26th August 2016
  • No legal status for undocumented immigrants: Trump
    Washington, August 26 (IANS) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ruled out a pathway to legal status for undocumented immigrants in the US.   However, the Manhattan real-estate mogul has d
    / 26th August 2016
  • Obama expands Hawaii marine reserve in final push on climate
    WASHINGTON, August 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will dramatically expand the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii on Friday, the White House said, an action that wi
    / 26th August 2016
  • People take to the street after alleged molestation
    Kohima Police register case against alleged molester; shops ransacked   Morung Express News  Kohima | August 25   Following the alleged molestation of a woman in Kohima on the night of Aug
    Nagaland / 25th August 2016
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