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5 Situations Where Indian Adults Need a Hepatitis B Vaccine Before It's Too Late

If You Were Born Before Universal Vaccination BeganIndia's Universal Immunisation Programme added hepatitis B to its childhood schedule in 2002 for urban areas, and only achieved nationwide rollout by 2011. Anyone born before that window, and many born during it in rural or underserved districts, likely received no hepatitis B…

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‘Our forefathers are coming back’: Naga people celebrate after Oxford museum agrees to return remains

Following six years of talks, Pitt Rivers Museum will return body parts collected by British colonial administrators to north-east India

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Centre extends ceasefire with NSCN-K (Niki) faction for another year, aiming for peace in Nagaland

The Centre and the Niki faction of NSCN-K have extended their ceasefire agreement for another year. This significant accord was officially signed by representatives from both the ceasefire supervisory board and the Home Ministry. The primary objective of this renewed agreement is to foster lasting peace within Nagaland. Both parties…

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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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Weather update tomorrow: IMD forecasts heavy to very heavy rain in 8 states on August 31

On Monday, eight states in India are set to experience heavy to very heavy rainfall, with other areas also bracing for substantial rainfall and thunderstorms. The west coast and southern parts of the country will witness widespread precipitation. This robust monsoon activity is projected to persist throughout the first week…

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Centre allows Nagaland to proceed with land acquisition for NH-202 widening

The Union government approved Nagaland's use of its 1965 law for land acquisition. This decision clears a major hurdle for widening National Highway-202. Discussions also covered proposed upgrades for NH-329A, NH-702A, and the Foothill Road. The Detailed Project Report for NH-202 was accepted with modifications. This upgrade will significantly improve…

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The crisis after the flood in Assam villages: Lost livestock, missed crop, and wait for aid

When the floodwaters rose around their home in Rajapul on July 19, Bandana Buragohain had no way of getting out on her own.

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India's Most Secretive Feline: What Science Has Actually Documented About the Clouded Leopard

A Cat That Rewrote the Anatomy of ClimbingThe clouded leopard's canine teeth are the longest, relative to skull size, of any living cat on earth. That single biological fact has been confirmed, measured, and published, and it is one of the few things about this animal that science can state…

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Himalayan Restricted Passes: How to Get Your Permits and Why the Bureaucracy Pays Off

Which Passes Are Actually Restricted, and WhyNot every high-altitude crossing in the Himalayas requires a special permit, but the ones that do tend to be the ones worth crossing. Passes that run along India's international borders, or through ecologically sensitive zones designated under the Wildlife Protection Act, fall under restricted…

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India's Rock Python: Ecology, Mythology, and a Habitat That Is Rapidly Disappearing

The Animal ItselfPython molurus can reach six metres in length and weigh over 90 kilograms. That makes it the largest snake in India and, by mass, one of the four heaviest snakes on Earth, behind only the reticulated python, the green anaconda, and the Burmese python. Adults are unmistakable: a…

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How Nagaland's Pangti Village Stopped Hunting Amur Falcons and Became Their Protectors

A Million Birds, One ReservoirThe numbers are almost too large to picture. Each October and November, somewhere between one and two million Amur Falcons converge on the Doyang reservoir in Wokha district, Nagaland. They arrive from breeding grounds in Siberia and northern China, and they are heading to southern Africa,…

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Emergency action plans updated for 735 of 6,598 specified dams: Centre

Emergency action plans are updated for 735 of 6,598 specified dams nationwide. Maharashtra has the most dams, with 65 having updated emergency plans. Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat also have many dams with fewer updated plans. Assam and Nagaland have updated plans for all their dams. The National Dam Safety Authority…

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Assam flood toll rises to 78 with three more deaths, 3 lakh remain affected in 7 districts

Three more deaths were reported in Assam floods, raising the total toll to seventy-eight. Over three lakh people remain affected across seven districts due to the ongoing deluge. Heavy to very heavy rainfall with thunderstorms is predicted for the next three days. This forecast could impact districts bordering Arunachal Pradesh…

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How Kaziranga's Rhino Conservation Brought the One-Horned Rhinoceros Back from Extinction

A Species That Nearly DisappearedAt the start of the 20th century, the greater one-horned rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis, had been hunted so relentlessly across the Indian subcontinent that fewer than 200 individuals remained, almost all of them concentrated in the tall elephant-grass floodplains of what is now Kaziranga. Trophy hunting under…

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Rescue efforts intensify in Nagaland, 180 stranded people evacuated amid rain-triggered landslides

In Nagaland, rescue operations are in full swing as the region grapples with rain-induced landslides. Over 180 individuals stranded due to the natural calamity are being airlifted, while the Indian Air Force has successfully evacuated 148 people from the districts of Mon and Longleng. Relief materials are being distributed across…

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"Death toll missing numbers will go up; several areas remain cut off": Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on flood situation

Assam's Chief Minister stated the flood death toll will likely increase soon. Many areas remain disconnected, preventing accurate reporting of missing persons. Heavy rainfall in neighboring Nagaland contributed to the severe flooding across Assam. Relief efforts are underway, though some areas are still inaccessible to authorities. The state government is…

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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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The Great Hornbill's Nesting Ritual Is Unlike Anything Else in India's Bird World

A Bird That Walls Itself InThe female great hornbill (Buceros bicornis) does something no other bird in India does during breeding season: she enters a hollow tree, and the pair plasters the entrance shut with mud, droppings, and fruit pulp until only a narrow vertical slit remains. She stays inside…

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Nearly 83,000 hectares of Assam land encroached by four states

During a recent assembly meeting, concerns were raised regarding land occupation by neighboring states in Assam. Nagaland currently occupies the majority of land, with Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram taking significant shares as well. Interestingly, Meghalaya has claimed the least land from Assam. The state government is committed to resolving these…

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Nagaland Sambad Lottery result out today (30-06-2026): Check Rs 1 crore prize winning number and full list here

Excitement builds as the Nagaland State Lottery Sambad Dear Tuesday Weekly Draw results for June 30, 2026, are out. A lucky ticket holder has clinched the Rs 1 Crore first prize with number 76L 72616. Winners across other prize tiers will also be announced. Participants are urged to check official…

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