Advocating “meaningful autonomy” and speedy development, the three interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir submitted their report to Home Minister P. Chidambaram recently, a year after they were appointe
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An organization going by the name ‘Entrepreneurs Union’ consisting of those selected under the State’s ‘Year of Entrepreneurs’ has brought to the attention of the Government of Nag
October 10, 2011 was Columbus Day in the United States. It marks another anniversary of the day that Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World in his erroneous attempts to forge an alternate route to India
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a trio of women's rights activists: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. The Norwegian Nobel Committee stated
How far away are we from the periphery? Alternatively, how can we ‘peripherize’ spaces that are central to its inhabitants and their ideas? If we don’t understand where our lines must run thro
The ongoing economic blockade in Manipur and the hardship faced by people there is something that all of us should sympathize with as common people are suffering due to shortage of essential commodities. Prices
Expressing concern over the death of 500 children allegedly due to encephalitis, the National Child Rights Commission has asked for a report on the matter from the Uttar Pradesh government in 15 days. In a lett
In the backdrop of the recent earthquake that devastated Sikkim and also the numerous warning signs of impending disaster/s striking a vulnerable place like Nagaland, the launch on October 10, 2011 of Nagaland&
About ten days ago, what began as a murmur of dissent, gathered momentum to become a multidimensional attack on corporate greed in America. Thousands of ordinary people have come out into the streets in New Yor
Since the last one decade or so, and in particular during the last two years, the Government of India (GoI) has been engaging itself with the question of Kashmir, Telangana and the Naga talks through various ap
Every year October 5-12 is being observed as the Right to Information (RTI) week across the country with the respective Information Commissions organizing workshops, seminars, press meets, competition in colleg
The integration of the Naga homeland, divided at present by manmade boundaries, has been part and parcel of Naga political consciousness right from the time of the Naga National Council when the Naga movement t
I’m sure some of you read about Miss Mon 2011 being held last week in, well, Mon even if you weren’t lucky enough to be there. I was! And everyone else I came to know in Mon Town was. And anyone who
In a significant move the Palestinians have asked the United Nations on Friday (September 23) to accept them as a member state. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas submitted the application to U.N. chief Ban Ki
Against the onslaught of many things modern, whether it is popular culture, political system or the bureaucratization of the individual and society, there is much truth in the saying that something’s are
Recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led his council of ministers in declaring their personal assets on the official web site. Although many people may not be convinced about the actual wealth being disclosed
I have always opposed the death penalty for as long as I can remember. Yesterday, the state of Georgia murdered Troy Davis, a 42 year-old African American man, for a crime that he claimed he never committed. To
In our last editorial we had commented that the best solution to tackle crime in Dimapur is to improve the functioning of our police force and not to give too much importance to community policing and given tha
It is a year of significance that held my attention for years after. I had completed a decade of my life and still not understood the meaning or purpose of examinations. Once after writing a paper on English Li
As the commercial hub of Dimapur works on modalities to tackle crimes, the State Home Minister has once again pushed his case for introducing ‘community policing’. The Home Minister feels that if we
