Nagaland

  • No incidents of violence, so no re-polls: Mkg RO
    Mokokchung, February 24 (MExN): There are numerous complaint letters from different candidates and their agents citing discrepancies in the February 23, Nagaland state assembly polls, but the District Election
    Nagaland / 25th February 2013
  • NPF, Cong hope to improve tally
    Kohima, February 24 (IANS): A day after Nagaland recorded 83 percent polling in the state assembly elections, Nagaland Peoples Front (NPF) Sunday exuded confidence of crossing the majority figure. Were confiden
    Nagaland / 25th February 2013
  • Election in Nagaland: A glimmer of hope
    Morung Express NewsDimapur | February 24 A day after the State Assembly Elections, reflections from polling day suggest that it was relatively peaceful and probably unfair. Reports of proxy voting have eme
    Nagaland / 25th February 2013
  • The gender faultline in Nagaland
    Dimapur, February 24 (TNN): Dr Yangerla from Mokokchung and Rakhila Lakhiumong from Tuensang didnt just stand for election in Nagaland yesterday, they stood at the intersection of Naga society and democracy. Fa
    Nagaland / 25th February 2013
  • Young vote for development, old for Naga settlement
    DIMAPUR, February 24 (TNN): Though it was a bright and sunny day, it looked like as though there was a bandh in commercial hub Dimapur. Streets were deserted and markets shut. But the scene at polling stations
    Nagaland / 25th February 2013
  • State Bird hunted to near extinction
    Dimapur, February 24 (MExN): Out of five species of Tragopan found in the Himalayan region, Tragopan Blyth (Jerdon) is found only in Nagaland. This rare and endangered pheasant is also the State Bird. Acco
    Nagaland / 25th February 2013
  • Tension, clashes in high stakes poll
    Morung Express NewsDimapur | February 23In Dimapur, polling in Singrijan (under 3 Dimapur-III) was conducted under heightened security and just as much drama and tension. Incidences of intermittent clashes betw
    Nagaland / 24th February 2013
  • Election goes by in relative peace. But was it fair?
    DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 23 (MExN): In a long time, people of Nagaland have observed peaceful elections. The state that went in for a 12th round of Legislative Assembly elections noticed unprecedented calm following t
    Nagaland / 24th February 2013
  • Media persons prevented from entering polling stations
    DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 23 (MExN): Media persons covering the 2013 Nagaland assembly polls faced an unexpected hurdle in the form of polling officers and para-military forces. At polling station 55 under Chumukedima
    Nagaland / 24th February 2013
  • Some disillusioned voters exercise ‘Right to Reject’
    Morung Express NewsDimapur | February 23 As Nagaland went to the polls today in the backdrop of appeals for peaceful, free and fair elections made from various quarters including the Election Commission of
    Nagaland / 24th February 2013
  • Statistics say high voter turnout
    Our CorrespondentKohima | February 23An estimated 83.29 % polling was recorded for the 59 Assembly seats, which by and large passed-off peacefully. A total of 59 Assembly seats went to polls today, while pollin
    Nagaland / 24th February 2013
  • One dead, two injured in Wokha mob action
    Dimapur, February 22 (MExN): In further reports emerging from Wokha district of mob action before the state assembly election on Saturday, a death and two injuries have been reported from Pongitong village unde
    Nagaland / 23rd February 2013
  • Nagaland policeman arrested on graft charges
    Kohima, February 22 (PTI): A Nagaland police constable has been arrested for allegedly bribing voters and abducting some of them, a day before the state goes to polls. The policeman has been identified as Imlia
    Nagaland / 23rd February 2013
  • Congress candidate and MLA dies
    Kohima, February 22 (AGENCIES): Congress candidate and MLA of Tuensang Sadar-I A/C, P Chuba Chang, died here at around 6 am today, party sources said. Chang died following a brief illness at Naga Hospital in Ko
    Nagaland / 23rd February 2013
  • Naga women: For a place in the NLA
    Mokokchung, February 21 (MExN): February 23, 2013 will determine whether Nagaland will make history in electoral politics by electing a woman to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly. The state goes to poll on Febr
    Nagaland / 22nd February 2013
  • ASTD allege threatening by ‘underground faction’
    DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 21 (MExN): The Ao Senso Telongjem Dimapur (ASTD) has alleged that on February 21, 2013 some underground faction had threatened the Vice President and some senior executive members of the Ao St
    Nagaland / 22nd February 2013
  • Nagaland to vote amid unresolved Naga issue
    Kohima, February 21 (IANS): It is six decades old. But the unresolved Naga issue is a major factor in Saturdays elections in the once insurgency-hit Nagaland. Peace and progress are the other issues dominating
    Nagaland / 22nd February 2013
  • NPCC ‘disturbed’ by interim bail for Imchen
    DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 21 (MExN): The NPCC is greatly disturbed by the interim bail granted to Imkong L. Imchen for 7 days on medical grounds by the District and Session Judge, Wokha. The NPCC through a press note s
    Nagaland / 22nd February 2013
  • Congress misusing power of central agencies: Rio
    Our CorrespondentKohima | February 21Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio alleged that the Congress was thoroughly misusing the power of central agencies and its high command to break all laid down rules of the
    Nagaland / 22nd February 2013
  • ABAM anguished
    Dimapur, February 20 (MExN): The Ao Baptist Church Association (ABAM) today stated that it was anguished, displeased and bashful when illegal arms, liquor and cash were in the possession of Home Minister Imkong
    Nagaland / 21st February 2013
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