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Naga Shawls and What Their Stripes Actually Mean: A Buyer's Guide to Clan and Identity

Each Stripe Is a Statement, Not a PatternNaga shawls are not decorative in the way a printed cotton scarf is decorative. The stripes, their colours, their width, and their sequence are a grammar. Among the Ao Naga, the Tsungkotepsu shawl, a dark field with broad red and white bands, was…

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Beyond Loktak Lake: 5 Hidden, Offbeat Places in Manipur That Most Travellers Never Reach

Ukhrul: The Shirui Lily and the Tangkhul Naga HillsAbout 85 kilometres northeast of Imphal, Ukhrul is the kind of place that makes you wonder why it never made the standard itinerary. The district is home to the Shirui Lily, Lilium mackliniae, a pale pink flower that grows nowhere else on…

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Nagaland Is the Northeast Indian State That Will Rearrange Your Assumptions About India

The India you thought you knew stops at the foothillsKohima sits at roughly 1,500 metres above sea level, and the air there does something immediate to your assumptions. The town is the capital of Nagaland, a state that shares borders with Myanmar and Arunachal Pradesh, and it looks nothing like…

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A 10-Day Northeast India Roadtrip Itinerary Covering Meghalaya, Assam, and Nagaland Without Rushing

Days 1 to 2: Guwahati to Kaziranga, Start Moving Before You Think You're ReadyLand in Guwahati, clear the airport, and drive east on NH27 the same afternoon. The road is wide and fast for the first two hours, then it narrows into the Brahmaputra floodplain and the light turns gold.…

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Six Remote Festivals Across India Where the Ritual Feels Like It Was Never Meant to Be Witnessed

Torgya Festival, Tawang, Arunachal PradeshThree days before Losar, the Tibetan New Year, the monks of Tawang Monastery perform Torgya in near-total isolation at 10,000 feet. The monastery, the largest in India and one of the largest in the world, sits above a town that most domestic tourists have still never…

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5 Indian Festivals That Require Serious Travel Planning and Reward Every Bit of It

Kumbh Mela, PrayagrajThe largest peaceful gathering on earth draws between 40 and 50 million people over its full run, and the Maha Kumbh cycle, which falls every twelve years at Prayagraj, pulls even more. The Sangam, where the Ganga, Yamuna, and the invisible Saraswati converge, is the bathing point, and…

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Hornbill Festival in Nagaland Is the Cultural Event That Changes How You See India

The thing nobody tells you before you goYou expect colour. You expect drums. You have seen the photographs, the headdresses made from the tail feathers of the great Indian hornbill, the warriors in full Naga regalia standing against a pine-green hillside outside Kohima. What the photographs cannot carry is the…

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Nagaland govt. constitutes Political Affairs Committee on Naga political issue

The PAC was constituted during a high-level political meeting held on May 9 under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, State government spokesperson and minister for parliamentary affairs, K.G. Kenye said in a statement in Kohima on May 12

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'Tribal March' marks the start of 'Janjatiya Gaurav Divas 2023' in Kohima

The celebration of ''Janjatiya Gaurav Divas 2023 commenced in Kohima, the capital of Nagaland, in unison with the rest of the country.

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Eight people killed in Nagaland road mishap

Eight people, incl. 3 women, killed in Nagaland's Tseminyu district when SUV collided with goods vehicle & fell into gorge. Truck also fell & landed atop SUV. Victims were travelling from Kohima to Mokokchung. Seven died on spot & one on way to hospital. Three women were to join govt…

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Nagaland first NE State to start Aadhaar-linked birth registration

Nagaland on August 31 became the first among the eight States in the northeast to start Aadhaar-lined birth registration, or ALBR. The initiative, launched in the State’s capital Kohima on Thursday, facilitates birth registration–based Aadhaar enrolment for children up to five years of age, officials said.

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‘Empty-handed, desperate flight through forests’: Kuki-Zomis on encountering mobs, fleeing to Nagaland

It was around 5.30 pm in Kohima. Already dark, the electricity too had just gone off. The light from the firewood ablaze in one corner of the kitchen faintly revealed a pot cooking on top. A crying toddler clung to his father’s legs as he moved around the dark room.…

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Gauhati High Court quashes Nagaland government’s ban on dog meat

The judgement was passed after Justice Marli Vankun heard a petition by three persons who supplied and sold dog and dog meat in Nagaland before the ban was enforced via the notification on July 4, 2020.

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Miscreants damage Naga Club building in Kohima

“The Naga Club building in the heart of Kohima city was vandalised and damaged by unknown miscreants in the early hours of May 27,” police said.

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Nagaland: Over 1,100 evacuated from violence-hit Manipur under 'Kohima Calling' operation

A total of 1,229 persons from Nagaland, including medical students and families in violent incidents in Manipur have been evacuated since May 6 to date in two phases. Read further on dynamite News:

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60 years, no women MLAs: Nagaland’s four women candidates carry the hopes of generations

On a cold, dreary morning in Kohima, a lone woman canvasses door to door, carrying a bag containing fresh fruits and vegetables from her garden. Her knees suffer the most as she traverses the city’s challenging terrain. Yet she is resilient, hopping through narrow lanes to reach her target group…

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New faces, old issues, and NDPP-BJP’s edge: All you need to know about Nagaland’s assembly poll

A few kilometres outside Kohima town, at the new ISBT station, a group of men were deeply engaged in conversation. Hailing from neighbouring villages in the Eastern Nagaland region, they worked as daily wagers in Kohima and planned to return to their respective villages to vote in the upcoming assembly…

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HPZ Token case: ED freezes ₹9.82 crore held with payment gateways

The ED probe is based on a First Information Report registered by the Cyber Crime police station in Nagaland's Kohima against HPZ token and others

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Nagaland govt making efforts to improve sports infrastructure: CM Neiphiu Rio

KOHIMA: Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio Monday said that despite resource crunch, the state government with the support of Khelo India Mission of the Centre is making all efforts to develop sports infrastructure in every district.

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to inaugurate CSR & Investment conclave in Kohima on August 22

FM Nirmala Sitharaman will also participate in the Investor and Bankers meet with a specific focus on Nagaland, IDAN Chief Executive Officer Alemtemshi Jamir said.

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With eye on status of 'national party', six-member JD(U) delegation led by party chief Lalan Singh, visits Nagaland

PATNA: With eye on 2023 assembly polls in Nagaland, a six-member delegation of senior JD(U) leaders, led by the party national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, on Wednesday reached Kohima, the capital of Nagaland, on a three-day trip to meet various civil society groups and discuss poll strategies…

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Man gets 20-year jail term for raping stepdaughter in Nagaland

KOHIMA: A special POCSO court in Kohima sentenced a man to 20 years' imprisonment for raping his five-year-old stepdaughter several times three years ago. The court of Special Judge Y Longkumer on Monday also slapped a fine of Rs 5,000 on the convict.

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SAAF and National Cross Country Athletics Championship to be held in Kohima on March 26

KOHIMA: The 2nd South Asian Athletic Federation (SAAF) Cross-Country championship and the 56th National Cross Country Athletics Championship will be held in Kohima on March 26, a top official of the Nagaland Athletic Association (NAA) said.

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