Dimapur, August 23: The tense situation in Kiphire between the Sangtam and Yimchunger communities remains a focus of concern, with appeals for peace from the Baptist church and a “goodwill team” from the Nagaland government characterizing the past 24 hours. The Nagaland Baptist Church Council has expressed concern at the mounting tensions between the Sangtam  Read more »

Barcelona, August 22 (AFP): Lionel Messi scored a hat trick as Barcelona won a record ninth Supercup by beating Sevilla 4-0 in the second leg for a 5-3 aggregate on Saturday. After losing the first leg 3-1 in Seville, league champion Barcelona dominated from the start in its Camp Nou Stadium. In the 14th minute,  Read more »

Former Union minister Shashi Tharoor today tied the knot with Dubai-based entrepreneur Sunanda Pushkar in a typical Malayali wedding ceremony in his ancestral home at Elavanchery village near here. 54-year-old Tharoor, a former UN Under Secretary General and now a Lok Sabha MP, tied the ‘thali’, symbolising the marital bond as per the Hindu custom,  Read more »

JERUSALEM, August 22 (AP): Hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has the security credentials and the political strength to pull off a peace deal with Palestinians now that the U.S. has brokered a new start to direct talks. The big questions is: Does he have the will? Netanyahu heads to Washington on Sept. 1 for  Read more »

New Delhi, August 22 (PTI): Toughening its stand, Government has conveyed to the BlackBerry makers to install its server in India for tracking its messenger and enterprise mail service as the offer made by it to provide data from its Canada-based server could be detrimental to national security. Officials of BlackBerry maker RIM (Research In  Read more »

Dear Reader, My four-year-old daughter, Angelina, and my wife, Claudinette, are the angels of my life — and I know this year has been especially trying for them, as my efforts for Haiti have taken so much more of my time since January, when the devastating earthquake nearly destroyed my home country. In fact, my  Read more »

Mothers at a remote village in Meghalaya call their children not by their names, but by songs assigned to each of them – a tradition handed down through generations. Children at Kongthong village in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hill district, 60 km from Shillong, are called by specific ‘Jingrwai Iawbeis’ or lullabies, much like the birds’  Read more »

The Zeliangrong peoples’ convention at Peren in Nagaland on July 30 , may not go well as more and more Zeliangrong organisations are opposing to that convention. After the Zeliangrong Union’s, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur, decision not to participate in the July 30 convention, the Village Authority Chairman Council of Tamenglong district has come out  Read more »

The Centre, which held a fresh round of talks with Naga leaders in New Delhi on Tuesday, has offered more autonomy for Nagaland but won’t integrate Naga-inhabited parts of Arunachal to Nagaland. Government is willing to give more autonomy, perhaps even a flag to the Naga’s under Article 371 (A). “The government hasn’t given us  Read more »