A project aimed at providing water supply to Mon and four neighbouring villages — Leangnyu, Lampong Sheanghah, Phuktong and Tuime – through gravity flow water distribution system has been completed. Minister of PHED, Jacob Zhimomi, officially...
19 Jan 2023Dimapur, Jan. 5 (EMN): The 39th edition of Tobu Area Students’ Union (TASU) sports meet-cum-federal assembly commenced on Thursday in Tamkoang village with the advisor of DUDA, N Bongkhao Konyak, as the special invitee at the opening ceremony. The ...
05 Jan 2023Dimapur, Dec. 27 (EMN): Mokokchung battalion of the Assam Rifles averted a major fire incident in Aboi town under Mon district on December 27. A defence release stated that a fire broke out in Hunyan Ward of Aboi town at around 1:20 pm due to electri...
27 Dec 2022Dimapur, Dec. 14 (EMN): Advisor of Land Resource, CL John, on December 13 inaugurated the newly recognised Chenloisho Longkhao village in Mon district. A DIPR reports stated that the advisor took the salute from the Village Guards and unveiled the mo...
14 Dec 2022Reyivolü Rhakho Kohima, Dec. 3 (EMN): On this day, precisely 365 days ago, 13 sons of Oting were shot dead by the 21 Para Special Forces in a botched ambush and consequent violence, triggering outrage in the state. The ambush on eight coal miners re...
04 Dec 2022Dimapur, Dec. 3 (EMN): The deputy commissioner of Mon, Ajit Kumar Verma, inaugurated a new academic building at Wangkhao College in Mon town on December 3, while the dedicatory prayer was said by Rev. Ashok Wallim, district chaplain of Mon headquarte...
03 Dec 2022Government job, ex-gratia and compensation provided as promised Reyivolü Rhakho Oting, Dec. 2 (EMN): Almost a year after the tragic Oting incident, the only two survivors of the eight coal miners — Sheiwang and Yeihwang — have been left ...
03 Dec 2022Our Correspondent Oting, Nov. 28 (EMN): The world may have moved on after the tragic Oting incident that happened almost a year ago, killing 14 civilians — 13 in a botched ambush by the 21 Para Special Forces and one in its aftermath in Mon dis...
29 Nov 2022Our Reporter Dimapur, Nov. 20 (EMN): The nine inmates who escaped Mon district jail on November 19 are still at large, and efforts are on to track down the escapees, informed a Mon Police personnel on Sunday. The police officer informed that they hav...
20 Nov 2022Our Correspondent Kohima, Nov. 19 (EMN): In a major embarrassment to the Mon district jail authorities, as many as nine inmates escaped the prison after scaling a wall in the early hours of Saturday. Confirming this to Eastern Mirror over the telepho...
19 Nov 2022Dimapur, Nov. 16 (EMN): The Mon district tobacco control cell (DTCC) organised a one-day training on the guidelines for implementation of Tobacco Free Educational Institutions (ToFEI) for teachers and officers from Police and Education departments at...
16 Nov 2022Dimapur, Nov. 2 (EMN): Two persons were convicted and sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment and fined INR 1,000 for breaking into Sheanghah Wamsa Baptist Church in Mon district and stealing cash amount of over INR 2 lakh. Assistant public pros...
02 Nov 2022Dimapur, Oct. 25 (EMN): Mon district tobacco control cell (DTCC) conducted a sensitisation programme on ‘Tobacco use and its harmful effects on human’ at Wangkhao Government College on October 25. An update from DTCC stated that the resource pers...
25 Oct 2022Dimapur, Oct. 6 (EMN): The Konyak Students’ Union (KSU) has extended support and solidarity to the All Nagaland Adhoc Teachers’ Group (ANATG) 2015 batch whose members are currently on hunger strike. KSU in a press release stated that the state go...
06 Oct 2022Dimapur, Sep. 15 (EMN): The Deendayal Antyodaya Yojna-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) under the aegis of the Ministry of Rural Development has begun a nationwide social mobilisation campaign from September 7 to the 20th to ensure all le...
15 Sep 2022Dimapur, Sep. 9 (EMN): The 12-hour bandh in Mon town called by the Konyak Union (KU) Mon unit, protesting extortion and harassment on the business community, ended peacefully on Friday. The shutters in Mon town were down from 6 am to 6 pm on Friday i...
09 Sep 2022Dimapur, Sep. 8 (EMN): Konyak Union, Mon unit on Thursday reiterated its call to observe complete bandh in Mon town from 6 am to 6 pm today (September 9) to protest against extortion and harassment meted out to the business community. KU directed Mon...
08 Sep 2022Dimapur, Sep. 7 (EMN): Konyak Union (KU), Mon unit has informed all shopkeepers to down shutters in Mon town from 6 am to 6 pm on Sep. 9, in accordance with a bandh organised by Mon block civil societies against extortion and harassment taking place ...
07 Sep 2022Dimapur, Sep. 2 (EMN): The Aboi Area Students’ Union (AASU) has asked all the government employees serving under Aboi sub-division to remain at their posting places, perform the duties assigned to them and not to keep proxies. The union informed in...
02 Sep 2022Dimapur, Aug. 27 (EMN): The Konyak Students’ Union on Saturday pointed out the acute shortage of teachers faced by government schools in Mon district, and attributed the poor performance of students in the HSLC examination to it. In a statement on ...
28 Aug 2022EM Bureau Kohima, Aug. 23 (EMN): Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman dedicated the first private bank — Axis bank branch — at Mon on Tuesday morning. She also inaugurated Axis Bank branches of Demow, Sibasaga...
23 Aug 2022Our Reporter Dimapur, Aug. 22 (EMN): Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, who is on a three-day visit to Nagaland, is scheduled to visit Mon district on Tuesday morning. Konyak Union general secretary, Manpang K Wangyen, when contacted by East...
22 Aug 2022Dimapur, Aug. 16 (EMN): A demand-driven skill development programme on tiling, plumbing and masonry for youth of Nagaland in construction sector was conducted in Aboi town hall under Mon district from August 8 to the 13th. A DIPR report stated that M...
16 Aug 2022Our Reporter Dimapur, Aug. 15 (EMN): Two jawans of the Assam Rifles (AR) were injured in a gunfight with the cadres belonging to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland led by Yung Aung (NSCN K-YA) at Nyasa village in Mon district on August 15 mor...
15 Aug 2022Dimapur, Aug. 4 (EMN): The Konyak Students’ Union (KSU) undertook an ‘Education Wheel Tour (Inspection) Phase-1’ and visited 10 sub-ordinates head quarters. KSU, in a press release, stated that some defaulters found during the inspection were s...
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