''Capi'' is a Tenyidie newspaper published from

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, the capital of

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. It is the oldest existing vernacular daily in Nagaland and is widely circulated in

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and Phek.

History

''Capi'' was founded in 1988 by Vikesel Neikha (publisher) and R. Solhou (editor). The newspaper was issued weekly,

biweekly A weekly newspaper is a general-news or current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly newspaper is published once every two weeks. Weekly ne ...

and tri-weekly. In 1997, the newspaper was relaunched as a

daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport ...

. ''Capi'' shifted from manual print to

offset printing Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on ...

in 2003. On 16 November 2015, ''Capi'' published its front page in blank along with four other state newspapers—'' Eastern Mirror'', '' The Morung Express'', '' Nagaland Page'' and '' Tir Yimyim'' to protest against a

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from the

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. The Assam Rifles in a letter to the editors in October had ordered the editors to stop covering news related to the rebel group— National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Khaplang (NSCN-K).

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