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Shillong, August 31 (IANS): At least 61 pregnant women and 877 newborn children have died in Meghalaya in four months -- April-July -- due to lack of institutional support and lack of medical services following-
DIMAPUR, AUGUST 10 (MExN): An organization called the Global Naga Forum (GNF) today issued a statement calling upon the Naga people to “emerge from our culture of silence and do our bit in the relay race
BEIRUT, August 10 (Reuters): Before he went missing on Aug. 4, Ghassan Hasrouty, an employee of Beirut's giant grain silos for 38 years, thought he was working in the safest place in the city. The r
MADRID, June 9 (Reuters): Wearing masks in public will remain mandatory in Spain after the country's state of emergency ends on June 21 until a cure or vaccine for the coronavirus is found, Health Mini
Reuters Gilead Sciences Inc's antiviral drug, remdesivir, prevented lung disease in macaque monkeys infected with the new coronavirus, a study published in medical journal Nature showed on Tuesday. &n
MOSCOW, June 9 (Reuters): Residents of Moscow began to resume their normal routines on Tuesday as a lockdown designed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus was lifted after more than two months even
Kohima, June 9 (MExN): A team of Nagaland and Haryana Police, on June 9, has arrested one Pankaj Gupta, who was run from police for last several days, from Kurukshetra, in Haryana. “The
GENEVA, June 9 (Reuters): A United Nations human rights expert voiced alarm on Tuesday at "widespread food shortages and malnutrition" in North Korea, made worse by a nearly five-month border clo
DIMAPUR, JUNE 9 (MExN): A special Shramik train carrying people of Nagaland from Gujarat and Maharashtra arrived at Dimapur Railway Station at around 1:00 am on June 9. A DIPR report informed that the pass
JAKARTA, June 9 (Reuters): Indonesia has resumed domestic flights for all passengers provided airlines operate at 70% capacity and follow strict rules brought into force on Tuesday, when the country announ
UNITED NATIONS, JUNE 9 (IANS): As India reels from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank projects the country's economy to shrink by 3.2 per cent in the current fiscal year, the worst performa
Kohima, June 5 (MExN): A meeting between spokespersons of the government for combating COVID-19 pandemic, Neiba Kronu, Minister for Planning & Coordination, Land Revenue and Parliamentary Affairs, and Mmhon-
Dimapur, June 3 (MExN): The Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur in a circular has notified that no village, colony GB or chairman under Dimapur District shall deny entry of person(s) returning to Nagaland from outside
Jalukie, June 3 (MExN): Two Nagaland State Transport bus services carrying 34 male and 5 female Chennai returnees from Dimapur reached GHSS Ground, Jalukie town on June 2 evening, after they tested negative for
NEW DELHI, June 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Nearly 200 migrant workers died in road accidents in India while returning to their village homes during the world's longest coronavirus lockdown, a char
BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters): The European Commission classified the new coronavirus as a mid-level threat to workers, drawing criticism from socialist lawmakers because the move will allow less stringent wo
PARIS, June 3 (Reuters): A French court on Wednesday ordered Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga be handed over to a United Nations tribunal for trial. U.N. prosecutors accuse Kabuga of b
TOKYO, May 29 (Reuters): The phones at the Tokyo suicide hotline start ringing as soon as it opens for its once-weekly overnight session. They don't stop until the lone volunteer fielding calls from hu
MANILA, May 28 (Reuters): Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday approved a recommendation to ease the lockdown in the capital Manila from June 1, resuming much-needed activity in an economy on the b
