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2nd April 2026 Dimapur to finally get a new DC office complex

2nd April 2026 ECI bars exit polls from April 9 to 29, enforces 48-hour silence rule

2nd April 2026 Nagaland: Senior Congress leader K Therie resigns from INC

2nd April 2026 Case backlog eases in HC, swells in lower courts in Nagaland

2nd April 2026 BJP hopes for ‘high margin’ win in Koridang

2nd April 2026 Conrad Sangma campaigns for NPP in Koridang

2nd April 2026 Imchatoba flags identity concerns, calls for free and fair poll

2nd April 2026 Nagaland bags Gold, multiple medals at Khelo India Tribal Games 2026

2nd April 2026 Nurses remain ‘heart of healthcare,’ says Nagaland official at Dimapur graduation

2nd April 2026 Call for Naga unity marks Aoleang Festival celebration at Kisama

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Centre agrees to CBI inquiry into Sushant's death

In a big development in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case on Wednesday, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed the Supreme Court that the Union of India has in principle accepted the recommendation by Bihar

Entertainment / 5th August 2020
COVID-19: 2 Nagaland Raj Bhavan staff test positive; rest negative

Morung Express News Kohima | August 5 Two members of Nagaland Raj Bhavan Staff have tested positive for COVID-19, an official update informed. However, the rest of the staff including the Governor have test

Nagaland / 5th August 2020
Hundreds of girls, women have disappeared during pandemic in Peru

BOGOTA, August 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): More than 900 women and girls have gone missing in Peru during its coronavirus lockdown, a top women's rights official said on Tuesday, calling for the cr

World / 5th August 2020
Militants attack in Indian Kashmir as it locks down for anniversary

SRINAGAR, August 5 (Reuters): Militants attacked Indian security forces with a grenade and gunfire in Kashmir on Wednesday, defying a strict security lockdown on the first anniversary of the government'

India / 5th August 2020
After port blast, Lebanon has less than a month's grain reserves, says minister

DUBAI, August 5 (Reuters): Lebanon has enough grain reserves for "a bit less than a month" after an explosion at Beirut port destroyed the nation's main silo, Economy Minister Raoul Nehme tol

World / 5th August 2020
Sri Lankans vote for new parliament, shrugging off coronavirus fear

COLOMBO, August 5 (Reuters): Sri Lankans shrugged off fears of the novel coronavirus and streamed into polling centres on Wednesday to elect a new parliament that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa hopes will cl

World / 5th August 2020
IRDAI allows life insurers to send policy in electronic format

CHENNAI, AUGUST 5 (IANS): The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has allowed life insurers to issue policy bonds in electronic format during FY2020-21 owing to Covid-19 pandemic.

Business / 5th August 2020
Female soldiers deployed for first time in Kashmir

New Delhi, August 5 (ANI): The Assam Rifles said that for the first time in Kashmir, 'Rifle Women' have been deployed on duty. In a tweet, Assam Rifles said, "Women soldiers of Assam Rifles depl

India / 5th August 2020
Toll expected to rise in blast that shook Beirut, killing 78 and injuring thousands

BEIRU, August 5 (Reuters) - Lebanese rescue workers dug through the rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut, killing 78 people and injuring nearly 4,000 in a

World / 5th August 2020
Global coronavirus deaths exceed 700,000, one person dies every 15 seconds on average

August 5 (Reuters) - The global death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 700,000 on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, with the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico leading the rise in fatalities. Nearly

World / 5th August 2020
Donal Bisht: I'm not an attention seeker

Mumbai, August 5 (IANS) Actress Donal Bisht calls herself a confident person, but not an attention seeker. Confidence and enjoying attention define her role in the upcoming web series, "The Socho Projec

Entertainment / 5th August 2020
It is what it is: Bizarre Trump interview defines US Covid-19 response

New York, Aug 5 (IANS) A remarkable soundbite -- "It is what it is" -- from a 37-minute US President Donald Trump interview telecast on HBO is emerging as a bizarre anthem for the catastrophic America

World / 5th August 2020
With 52K new cases India's Covid tally crosses 19L-mark

New Delhi, August 5 (IANS) With 52,509 new coronavirus (Covid-19) cases and 857 deaths in the last 24 hours, India crossed 19 lakh-mark with the total caseload standing at 19,08,254 while the total fatalities i

India / 5th August 2020
Substance abuse in Nagaland surpasses national average

Atono Tsükrü Kense Kohima | August 4 Despite Nagaland being a small state with sizeable population, the state predominantly has higher rate of substance abuse of various forms than the national av

Nagaland / 5th August 2020
Returnees' samples ‘misplaced’, tested again

Morung Express News Dimapur | August 4 In what could be procedural lapse, returnees in some of the Quarantine Centres (QC) in Dimapur have been reportedly re-tested as their first swab samples have been &ls

Nagaland / 5th August 2020
Nagaland breaks single-day record with 276 cases

Morung Express News Dimapur | August 4 Continuing the upward trend in the number of COVID-19 positive cases in the state, a total of 276 COVID-19 positive cases was reported on August 4. This is the high

Nagaland / 5th August 2020
At 25, Naga lad clears UPSC exam, secures 133rd rank

Vishü Rita Krocha Kohima | August 4 Richard Yanthan lost his father at a very young age, and first heard about the civil services from his mother when he was in standard II. He had a very vague idea ab

Nagaland / 5th August 2020
PPC, PSC raise concerns on mass screening and training process

Longleng, August 4 (MExN): The Phom People’s Council (PPC) and Phom Students’ Conference (PSC) has written to the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mokokchung Range, requesting that training of ne

Nagaland / 5th August 2020
A reflection on the National Education Policy 2020

Dr Asangba Tzüdir The recently announced National Education Policy 2020 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development sets for itself the goal of transforming the education system to meet the needs of t

Editorial / 5th August 2020
TODAY IN HISTORY -August 5

Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 5: 1940 - Latvia was absorbed into the Soviet Union as the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic. 1962 - American film actres

Infocus / 5th August 2020