Along with a scintillating presentation of their rise and birth, Kom tribe of Thayong on Saturday laid the memorial stone to mark 235 years of their peaceful settlement in the village.
The graceful occasion was attended by MLA of Lamlai Assembly Constituency Kshetrimayum Biren as chief guest.

Most of the thousands of tons of branches that fell in the April 9 ice storm soon will become the property of a contracted grinding company, but a small number are headed to the South Dakota State Penitentiary for use in Native American sweat lodge ceremonies.

The federal government said Monday it would not negotiate with indigenous groups which on Tuesday entered their sixth day of occupying the controversial Belo Monte dam construction site. In the inflammatory statement, the Secretariat General of the Presidency accused some indigenous leaders of dishonesty and involvement in illegal gold mining.

She lets out a piercing cry, her body starts shaking violently, her hands are clapping to the rhythm of large African drums - she is calling out to her ancestors. Thabiso Siswana is a traditional healer, known in South Africa as a sangoma.

Medications that Aruna Ghimire of Thali, Kathmandu, went through a couple of months back was no less than a miracle, at least for herself, her family and neighbours. As doctors and experts of medical sciences were reportedly unable to identify her ailment, the 17-year-old continued to lose consciousness and faint over two times a day for the past more than seven months.