North Korea agreed Tuesday to take the first step towards nuclear disarmament and shut down its main reactor within 60 days before eventually dismantling its atomic weapons program.Under the deal, Pyongyang wil
Akangjungla A little less than two week time is away for the Christmas Day. The traditions of putting up decorations, lighting up the streets and homes, shopping, making plans for vacation etc are now part
Growing restlessness and lingering lethargy enveloping the Naga skyline is causing an uneasy sense of acute cynicism and unfocused anger, just churning restlessly for its release. The internal and external cond
The Moily Committee report is out. The second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) headed by former Karnataka Chief Minister Verappa Moily has recommended major changes to the Representation of the People Ac
Nagalands Annual Plan outlay for the year 2007-2008 was approved on February 6 at a meeting between the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio.
Putting the peace issue right up front before the people of Nagaland, new Governor K. Sankaranarayanan has rightly pointed out that it is the combined responsibility and the bounden duty of everyone to make use
The murder of seven persons in Kiphire district on February 8 by unidentified assailants is a shameless act of cowardice and one that has shocked the sense of peace loving people. The cruel manner, in which the
Despite mounting threats from different quarters including from an armed underground faction, the Naga students from the four hill districts of Manipur have shown great courage of conviction to come and sit for
At the heart of a peoples existence is its collective critical consciousness; provided as an alternative to the dominant culture and one that refuses to accept the interpretations of reality as defined by domin
As is the case in the run up to every election that comes up at a given point of time, poll promises have become the major subject of political parties and the electorate. The recent slew of election promises a
The passionate and innate relationship between human beings and the land in which they exercise their sovereign rights had and continues to define the dialectical parameters of what constitutes a peoples unders
The appointment of K. Sankaranarayanan—a former Finance Minister of Kerala and a confidant of Defence Minister A.K. Antony—as Governor of Nagaland to replace former Intelligence Bureau Chief Shyamal Datta i
Expectations from the United Nations depend on ones perception and understanding of what the organization represents and what it can accomplish. It is agreed that in an increasingly contradicting yet interconne
In the backdrop of criticism of US invasion in Iraq, an international conference on peace held in New Delhi recently to commemorate the centenary launch of Satyagraha by Mahatma Gandhi has rejected unilateralis
The passing away of Dr Hokishe Sema, former Chief Minister of Nagaland and the first Naga Governor to be appointed by Delhi marks the end of an era in the annals of Nagalands political history. The imprint left
Suppression of the human body has often been characterized first by the colonization of the mind and spirit. The colonization of the mind is intended to cloud and internalize the human spirit with fear and sens
A joint memorandum submitted by various NGOs and public interest groups of Tuensang district and addressed to the Minister Health & Family Welfare, has come out with the startling disclosure that except for
In times of conflict and political strife, Truth is conveniently stepped-over and becomes the first casualty, causing despair. Nonetheless, it does not however mean that the Truth has just simply vanished into
The recommendation put forward by the DMK led Tamil Nadu government to the Centre asking the latter to re-write the Indian Constitution afresh comes against the backdrop of the Supreme Court verdict on the 9th
When incumbent Governor of Nagaland Shyamal Datta bids adieu to Kohima Raj Bhavan, his home for five years, there is no doubt that his absence will be sorely missed. Not only did Datta and his wife warm the hea