Akangjungla The entire world is reeling under the Coronavirus pandemic since the winter of 2019. Numerous researches and thoughts on the origin of the virus have not come to any conclusion nor has there been

Veroli Zhimo The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) decision to indefinitely suspend the world’s richest cricket competition—the Indian Premier League (IPL), midway through the

Dr Asangba Tzudir An estimated 690 million (8.9%) people go to bed hungry regularly according to a report from United Nations food agencies. Global hunger index for 2020 puts hunger at a moderate level and s

Moa Jamir The announcement to depute selected officers drawn from various departments for effective management of COVID-19 situation in Nagaland on May 1 is a 'timely' course correction, but concerns

Imlisanen Jamir “Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism,” said the author and former journalist Richard Kluger once. Today is World

Akangjungla Truth is the spirit of a virtuous person. It is the core foundation of every great character, the guardian of every ideal individual and institution. Truth is the revelation and manifestation of

Veroli Zhimo On Tuesday, the Nagaland state government made two major announcements during a press briefing —free vaccines for those above the age of 18 and the decision to “impose a lockdown wit

Dr Asangba Tzudir The NLTP Act issue has cropped up again with DNSU giving the government 20-day ultimatum to set up committee to review NLTP on 19 April 2021.  Following this, a unanimous decision was

Imlisanen Jamir “Well Minister, if you ask me for a straight answer, then I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another in terms of the average of de

Moa Jamir New COVID-19 cases, which were increasing consistently in recent times in Nagaland, albeit in small numbers, surged to 385 in the April 17-23 period, the highest weekly surge since December 2020. H

Witoubou Newmai It has become extremely important for our ‘society’ to critically examine why some ‘societies’ easily split while other ‘societies’ sustain longer. &nbs

Imkong Walling The issue of liquor proliferation has risen once again in a place where it is forbidden by law but a failed one. It has pitted morals against materialism- the church’s justification vers

Asangba Tzudir It is said that without greed we would still be living in the caves, but when it is left unchecked the insatiable desire for more and better material things only grows and gets more destructiv

Imlisanen Jamir On April 18 at around 11:30 pm, an announcement was made which ensures that football does not remain the same ever again. This announcement also reaffirms a concerning worldview that beneath

Language and Religion have served as two vital pillars in the history of Empire building that were inherited by the modern Westphalian State. These pillars have been the touchstone for a unifying and uniforming

Akangjungla Indigenous language is not essentially a national language but it is undeniably the language of the indigenous peoples belonging to a particular region which is not always defined by fixed bounda

Imkong Walling Nagaland has not much to boast of as far as the parameters of growth and development are concerned. Infrastructure is one area where the state takes a beating, which has further dealt a fester

Dr Asangba Tzudir The COVID-19 situation in the country is worsening with the biggest single day spike of 1,68,912 cases and 904 deaths on April 12. India also took over Brazil in the second slot. The circul

Imlisanen Jamir “Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe,” once wrote the celebra

Ramin Jahanbegloo, the Iranian philosopher, writes that “imposed conformity and normalized complacency are the twin corruption of democracy.” He adds that the task of dissent, through its art of que