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  • Pope urges Rio Olympians to demonstrate international unity at Games
    Vatican City, Aug 3 (IANS) Pope Francis on Wednesday addressed the athletes who are set to take part in the 2016 Olympics in the Brazilian city of Rio, calling for them to exemplify the unity of the human race
  • Short circuit
    Aheli Moitra   The Economic Times reported in June this year that for the first time in history, India will not have a power deficit in 2016-17. A report from the Central Electricity Authority, however,
  • Finding Funds to Obtain Good Deals
    If a deal is bad and doesnt promise great rewards, then it is really hard to raise cash. Good deals seem to bring out the greed in people. So when a person finds a good deal, the deal will often attract cash be
  • Prachanda is Nepal's 39th Prime Minister
    Kathmandu, Aug 3 (IANS) Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda was on Wednesday elected the 39th Prime Minister of Nepal, Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar said.   O
  • Insight: Suu Kyi tackles military land grabs in test of new Myanmar government
    HTA NI, Myanmar, August 3 (Reuters) - By the standards of her village in Myanmar's swampy Ayeyarwady Delta, Than Shin was a prosperous woman. She had 20 acres of farmland on which her family grew rice.  
  • India's anti-China steel tariffs bite engineering, manufacturing firms
    NEW DELHI, August 3 (Reuters) - Indian manufacturers of finished steel goods are urging New Delhi to end tariffs on cheap imports of the alloy from China, Japan and South Korea, worried the protectionist measur
  • Thais to deploy 200,000 police for referendum but trouble seen unlikely
    BANGKOK, August 3 (Reuters) - Thai authorities will deploy about 200,000 police for a referendum on a contentious new constitution on Sunday but violence is seen as unlikely, police and the government said on W
  • What energy drinks could do to your heart
    New York, Aug 3 (IANS) The high levels of caffeine in energy drinks may lead to cardiac complications, suggests a case report.   The case, reported in the Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official
  • Sonakshi Sinha excited about singing live
    Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS) Actress Sonakshi Sinha, who will be singing live for the first time at a college here, says she is elated to see her dream of singing turn into reality.   Sonakshi, who has sung
  • Emirates flight from India catches fire in Dubai
    Dubai, Aug 3 (IANS) An Emirates plane flying from Kerala with 275 people on board caught fire after landing here on Wednesday, leaving the passengers and crew shaken and many injured, witnesses and officials sa
  • India on course in second Test vs Windies before rains play spoilsport
    Kingston, Aug 3 (IANS) India's wait for an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series against a lacklustre West Indies continued as incessant rains forced an early end to the fourth day's play of the second
  • Obama says Trump 'unfit' to be President
    Washington, Aug 3 (IANS) US President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump "unfit" to serve as President and lambasted Republicans for sticking with the businessman-turn
  • Trump accepts US military honour as gift, says 'much easier' than combat
    Washington, Aug 3 (IANS) US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accepted a Purple Heart from a military veteran during a rally on Tuesday, saying it was "much easier" to receive the medal as a gift t
  • Blood Mica: Deaths of child workers in India's mica "ghost" mines covered up to keep industry alive
      By Nita Bhalla, Rina Chandran and Anuradha Nagaraj   KODERMA/BHILWARA/SYDAPURAM, India, August 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children a
  • Hewlett Packard's Meg Whitman joins CEOs endorsing Clinton
    WASHINGTON, August 3 (Reuters) - Calling Donald Trump an "authoritarian character" and a threat to democracy, Meg Whitman, a prominent Republican fundraiser and chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, en
  • Vegetable shops without shopkeepers
    Leshemi farmers’ shows trust is still not lost in Naga society   Vishü Rita Krocha Morung Express News   At a time when the quality of trust is found to be the most wanting in the Na
  • NSCN (IM) detention centre busted; two rescued: AR
    DIMAPUR, August 2 (MExN): 32 Assam Rifles busted an illegal detention centre run by NSCN (IM) in Seitheke Basa of Dimapur and rescued two abducted civilians, according to PRO, Assam Rifles.   The PRO in
  • ‘ANSCU must play role model without isms and colors’
    All Nagaland College Students’ Union commemorates 37th Foundation Day Morung Express News Kohima | August 2   The All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) commemorated its 37th Found
  • Student dies in vehicle accident
    PFPS blames deplorable road condition as cause of accident   KIPHIRE, AUGUST 2 (MExN): In a tragic accident, a student of Class-XII died when a Dimapur bound Tata Sumo vehicle met with an accident on T
  • AYO meeting
      Kohima, August 2 (MExN): The Souvenir Committee of Angami Youth Organisation (AYO) will have its second meeting on August 4 at Hotel Japfü, Kohima at 4:00 pm with regard to the AYO Silver Jubilee sla
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