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  • Can new global goals transform the world’s poorest countries?
    Zoe Tabary Thomson Reuters Foundation   The worlds poorest countries should seize the opportunity offered by a new set of global goals to come up with a fresh approach to development, as a basis for
    / 15th June 2016
  • Rural Healthcare: Entitlements vs Reality
     Abokali Jimomi   For those in Nagaland who live in areas where healthcare is a challenge due to lack of facilities, lack of well-equipped hospitals, lack of transportation, and bad road conditions
    / 15th June 2016
  • The Significance of Systems for Efficiency and Productivity
    During the last two decades, my wife and I have travelled 140 miles from Dallas to Tyler, Texas, many times to see one of our Naga elders who’s now in his 80s.  To get there, we would usually foll
    Public Space / 15th June 2016
  • Hillary Clinton wins Washington primary
    Washington, June 15 (IANS) Hillary Clinton won the final Democratic primary on Tuesday night as voters in Washington, D.C., delivered a resounding win to the party's presumptive nominee, one week after she clin
    / 15th June 2016
  • Pistorius walks on stumps in court in bid to avoid jail
    PRETORIA, June 15 (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius shuffled without his prosthetic legs through a Pretoria court on Wednesday to demonstrate how vulnerable he is without his artificial limbs, an attempt by the athle
    / 15th June 2016
  • Indian sugar refiners can benefit from export tax
    MUMBAI/LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) - India's planned sugar export tax of 25 percent, intended to maintain local supplies, could boost opportunities for Indian refiners who unlike mills will not be subject to the
    / 15th June 2016
  • Myanmar scraps screening of film critical of military's past
    By Timothy Mclaughlin and Aung Hla Tun   YANGON, June 15 (Reuters) - The abrupt cancellation of the screening of a film critical of Myanmar's military has exposed sensitivities over portrayal of the
    / 15th June 2016
  • China says Dalai Lama-Obama meeting will damage bilateral ties
    BEIJING June 15 (Reuters) - China has lodged diplomatic representations with the United States over a planned meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama at the White House on Wednesday sayin
    / 15th June 2016
  • Can coffee cause cancer? Only if it's very hot, says WHO agency
    By Kate Kelland   LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) - There is no conclusive evidence that drinking coffee causes cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer agency will say in a reverse of its previous w
    / 15th June 2016
  • Know your Districts: Wokha
    Location: Covering an area of 1,628 sq. km, Wokha is located  in the mid western part of Nagaland at 26.8° N Latitude and 94.18° E Longitude. It is bounded by Assam in the West and North, Kohima and Dimapur
    / 15th June 2016
  • Voice of the people
    Are ultimatums the only resort to accomplishing anything in Nagaland? Ultimatum according to the Dictionary means "Final demand or statement of terms, the ejection of which will result in retaliation o
    / 15th June 2016
  • Oh rain!
    Achele Therie Baptist College, Kohima     Thou art pure and lovable: I adore thee, though you appeareth like tears. I love to walk steadily; at times when thou art smooth, For thou art sooth
    / 15th June 2016
  • Participate & win
    1. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recently announced the name of a new element. Discovered by Japanese scientists in 2004, the element, with atomic number 113, is the first atomic
    / 15th June 2016
  • A Father’s Role Isn’t Easy
    The word ‘Father’ is derived from the Latin word “Pater” and is defined in several dictionaries as a man who has engendered a child, a male parent, or a person who takes responsibility f
    Morung Learning / 15th June 2016
  • Ronaldo hits out at 'small time' Iceland in Euro draw
    June15, REUTERS - Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo has criticised Iceland's 'small mentality' while saying they were fortunate to earn a 1-1 draw against his team in their European Championship Group F opener
    / 15th June 2016
  • Former Thai PM Yingluck wows fans but remains divisive figure
    By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Andrew R.C. Marshall   PHRAE/BANGKOK, Thailand, June 15 (Reuters) - When former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrived in this sleepy corner of northern Thailand and fl
    / 15th June 2016
  • Chile's Sanchez, Vargas shine in 4-2 win over Panama
    June 15, REUTERS - Chile advanced to the quarter-finals of the Copa America on Tuesday after two goals in the first half from Eduardo Vargas and two in the second from Alexis Sanchez gave them a 4-2 win over Pa
    / 15th June 2016
  • Wife of Orlando shooter knew of attack, could soon be charged – source
    By Letitia Stein and Julia Edwards   ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub knew of his plans for the attack and could s
    / 15th June 2016
  • NPCC alleges receiving ‘threats’ from Minister
    Demands Impartial Inquiry Commission into MGNREGA funds   DIMAPUR, JUNE 14 (MExN): President of the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC), K Therie today alleged that the party has “received
    Nagaland / 14th June 2016
  • Teenagers' escape from Indian spinning mill prompts crackdown on labour abuses
    The girls were forced to work overtime, banned from contacting family or studying   By Anuradha Nagaraj   CHENNAI, India, June 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's southern Tamil Nadu s
    / 14th June 2016
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