The Central government has extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in nine districts of Nagaland including Dimapur, Niuland, Chumoukedima, Mon, Kiphire, Noklak, Phek, Peren and Zunheboto from Saturday (October 1) to March 30 next year, according to a notification issued by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). New Delhi: The... The post appeared first on .

The Central government has extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in nine districts of Nagaland including Dimapur, Niuland, Chumoukedima, Mon, Kiphire, Noklak, Phek, Peren and Zunheboto from Saturday (October 1) to March 30 next year, according to a notification issued by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). New Delhi: The... The post appeared first on .

New Delhi [India], October 1 (ANI): The Central government has extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in nine districts of Nagaland including Dimapur, Niuland, Chumoukedima, Mon, Kiphire, Noklak, Phek, Peren and Zunheboto from Saturday (October 1) to March 30 next year, according to a notification issued by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

New Delhi [India], September 14 (ANI): BJP national president JP Nadda will be on a two-day visit to Nagaland ahead of next year's Assembly election.

New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday issued a notification enlisting the 'disturbed areas' in Nagaland where Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act (AFSPA) will continue to remain imposed for another six months.

Kohima (Nagaland) [India], March 4 (ANI): The Union Minister of AYUSH Sarbananda Sonowal announced a major investment of more than Rs 100 crores to develop the AYUSH Healthcare sector in the state of Nagaland on Friday.

Kohima Dec 22 PTI The Nagaland Health and Family Welfare Department has sent the samples of a man who tested positive for COVID-19 on his return from the USA for genome sequencing to find the variant of the virus an official said on Wednesday Principal Director of Health and Family Welfare Dr Neikhrielie Khimiao told reporters here that the person had returned eight days back and was in quarantine as per the laid down protocols and the test result has been found positive However with Nagaland lacking the facility for genome sequencing the sample has been sent outside the state to detect the variant of the virus and the report is expected in the next 5-6 days he said Till the result of proper genome sequencing is out we cannot say whether it is delta or omicron variant he said Dr Khimiao asserted that the Health Department is fully geared up to combat any situation With the impending Omicron variant we have issued all the necessary information advisories and orders to all districts for due precautions at all levels he said In particular the border districts Dimapur Kohima Mon Phek Wokha and Mokokchung have been asked to remain very cautious with the inbound travellers he said State Nodal Officer for Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme Dr Nyanthung Kikon said that the tools for prevention are the same even for the Omicron variant Covid Appropriate Behaviour CAB and vaccination The severity of Omicron is not as much as the other variant but its highly transmissible and once it starts transmitting there will be a huge load on the health infrastructure with increase in hospitalization and unfortunate incidents might take place he said Meanwhile State Nodal Officer for Bio-Safety Level-3 laboratories in Nagaland Dr V Tina Khamo said that a proposal has been sent to the government to set up facilities for genome sequencing in BSL-3 laboratory in Kohima so that samples can be tested here and result declared quickly Nagalands COVID-19 tally rose to 32170 on Wednesday as one more person tested positive for the virus The state now has 83 active COVID-19 cases while 30317 people have recovered from the disease and 1069 patients have migrated to other states The COVID-19 death toll in the state remained at 701 for the fifth consecutive day on Wednesday as no fresh fatality was reported A total of 1332942 doses of COVID-19 vaccine has been administered to 758869 people in the state till Tuesday State Immunization Officer Dr Ritu Thurr said PTI NBS RG RG

Kohima Nov 25 PTI Nagaland on Thursday reported 14 new COVID-19 cases four more than the previous day pushing the tally to 32092 a health department official said Of the fresh cases eight were reported from Dimapur district four from Kiphire district and one each from Mokokching and Wokha districts he said The COVID-19 death toll in the state remained at 696 as no fresh fatality was reported for the third consecutive day the official said Only three more persons were cured of the disease in the last 24 hours taking the total number of recovered patients to 30195 The COVID-19 recovery rate in the state is 9408 per cent At present Nagaland has 141 active COVID-19 cases while 1060 patients have migrated to other states Altogether 408674 samples have been tested for COVID-19 in Nagaland so far the official said State Immunisation Officer Ritu Thurr said 1269734 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to 731029 people till Wednesday PTI NBS MM MM

Kohima Nov 17 PTI Nagaland on Wednesday detected six fresh COVID-19 cases two more than the previous day with the caseload increasing to 32024 a health official said The fresh cases were detected from Dimapur Kohima Mokokchung and Wokha districts With no fatality during the day the coronavirus death toll in the state remained at 695 the official said Recoveries surpassed fresh infections as nine patients were cured of the disease in the last 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries to 30134 The recovery rate among the coronavirus patients in Nagaland is at 9409 per cent Nagaland now has 144 active cases while 1051 patients have migrated to other states A total of 404997 samples have so far been tested for the infection the official said State Immunisation Officer Ritu Thurr said 1244670 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to 720486 people till Tuesday PTI NBS MM MM

Kohima Oct 30 PTI Nagaland on Saturday reported 20 fresh COVID-19 cases 19 less than the previous day with the tally rising to 31831 an official said The death toll remained at 684 for the second consecutive day Of the new cases eight were reported from Dimapur five from Mokokchung three from Kohima two from Kiphire and one each in Phek and Wokha districts At least 19 positive patients recuperated from the disease during the period taking the recovered persons tally to 29883 The recovery rate among coronavirus patients in the state is 9388 per cent Nagaland now has 222 active COVID-19 cases while 1042 coronavirus patients migrated to other states As many as 394948 samples have so far been tested for COVID-19 in Nagaland State Immunisation Officer Dr Ritu Thurr said a total of 1199869 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to 710368 people till Friday PTI NBS MM MM