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Kohima, Jan. 17: She has been mother, friend, philosopher and guide to no less than 600 children over a span of nearly 30 years. And all she wants is a special day when the world will remember these orphans.

Munna is one of those boys who have found the milk of human kindness at a home away from home. He is among the 604 children who have grown up in the lap of 76-year-old Zaputou Angami in the 30 years of the Kohima Orphanage and Destitute Home. For the children ? most of whom were orphaned in the deadly factional clashes that have marked the over 50-year-old history of the Naga movement...

Shillong, Jan. 17: Meghalaya chief minister F.A. Khonglam is keeping the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on tenterhooks as he is still undecided on whether to contest on a party ticket from Sohra constituency.

The NCP released its third list of candidates recently but Khonglam?s name still did not figure in it. The chief minister is currently an associate member of the party.

While announcing the names of candidates approved by the party at Jaintia Hills, NCP president Robert Kharshiing told The Telegraph a couple of days back that the party was waiting for the chief minister to apply for a...

NEW DELHI, Jan 16 ? The attempt to garner support for peaceful resolution of the Naga problem has gathered momentum with the Opposition parties calling upon the Prime Minister to convene an all party meeting to discuss the issue. Representatives of various Opposition parties barring the Congress today met the NSCN (I-M) leaders at former Prime Minister, V P Singh?s house for an interaction. The leaders gave a patient hearing to the chairman and general secretary of the NSCN (I-M), Isak Chisi Swu and Th. Muivah, who gave an account of the Naga problem and their movent.

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GUWAHATI, Jan 16? The Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC) has urged, the State Government to take up ?strongly? with the Government of Meghalaya the alleged ?unprovoked armed invasion? of Karbi Anglong by the Meghalaya Police (MLP) last Monday. The Committee has demanded that such ?illegal and objectionable behaviour? by the MLP should not be repeated in future.

ASDC publicity secretary Dharamsing Teron, in a press release this evening, said that armed MLP personnel, claiming to be a Special Operation Team (SOT), had entered Karbi, Anglong through Umjakiri, under Baithalangso police...

ITANAGAR, Jan 16 ? Approximately 30,000 (thirty thousand) of pilgrims braving the chilly cold took a holy dip at the famous Parashuram Kund in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh on the eve of ??Paush Makar Sankranti.?? Official sources from Tezu, the district headquarter of Lohit told The Assam Tribune over phone Tuesday that thousands of pilgrims, sadhus, old men-women and children from different parts of the country including pilgrims from neighbouring Nepal and Bhutan queued up in the early morning to take holy dip with a belief that a dip in the kund is enough to exonerated oneself from...