Editorial

  • Suicide Prevention
    Imlisanen Jamir According to the latest National Crimes Records Bureau (NCRB) report titled ‘Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India 2021’ the number of suicides in Nagaland was 43 in 2021. While
  • No ‘compromise’
    Moa Jamir Despite being ‘well-settled’ by the Supreme Court of India that a “compromise deed/agreement” entered different parties on matters concerning ‘grave and serious offenc
  • Truth – To be or not to be
    Dr Asangba Tzudir The status of ‘truth’ today is such that it finds caught at a paradoxical threshold where ‘truth’ needs to be revealed but remains hidden. The paradox is also height
  • Dealing with homelessness 
    Veroli Zhimo The homeless population in Dimapur area seems to be steadily increasing.  In the past, one would notice a few beggars and rag pickers seeking shelter in areas nearby the Dimapur Railway
  • Worrisome Data
    Moa Jamir Cognisable crimes in Nagaland over the years has had been one of the ‘lowest’ among States and Union Territories (UTs) in India as per the official data published annually by the Nation
  • MENTAL HEALTH: Well-Being for All
    Akangjungla The UNICEF’s global flagship publication, The State of the World’s Children 2021; On My Mind: Promoting, Protecting And Caring For Children’s Mental Health reveals that worldwid
  • Chemistry in dissipation
    Imkong Walling Nature works in mysterious ways and it is unthinkably amazing. Everything just seems to work uncannily, yet in harmony – like the parts of a machine falling into place – giving, pr
  • Resource conservation and resource rights
    Imlisanen Jamir How does Nagaland deal with its impending water crisis? Over the years, the scarcity of water in the State has become an ever increasing phenomenon every dry season. The recent signs indicate
  • Young politicians can be people’s champion
    Akangjungla Often in youth-centred conferences and Church gatherings, it is binding for one or the other speakers to proclaim the slogan that ‘young people are the hope for the future; today’s yo
  • Repatriation, an Action towards Reconciliation?
    The Pitt Rivers Museum (PRM) was described as “one of the most violent spaces in Oxford” in a 2015 tweet by the student-led protest movement Rhodes Must Fall for housing “thousands of artefact
  • Two takeaways from FM’s visit
    Moa Jamir The three-day visit of the Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman to Nagaland for the State’s first Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Investment Conclave cou
  • On new land laws
    Vero Zhimo Amidst the buzz surrounding the first Nagaland Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Investment Conclave, an announcement made by the state’s Minister for Planning & Coordination,
  • What comes out of CSR and investment conclave
    Dr Asangba Tzudir There is always the catch better late than never, and the same can be said for the recent visit of Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs to the capital city o
  • FIFA probably wins again
    Imlisanen Jamir It really does take one to know one. There has been nothing as ironic in the news cycle this past week as FIFA’s suspension of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) for; get this, &l
  • SDGs & mental wellbeing
    Imkong Walling The year was 2019. The day was October 10, a day when the global community observes World Mental Health Day with the objective of mainstsreaming mental health, while doing away with the associ
  • A fungal pandemic next?
    Imlisanen Jamir We are likely to think of fungi, if we think of them at all, as minor nuisances: mold on cheese, mildew on shoes shoved to the back of the closet, mushrooms springing up in the garden after h
  • Combating cancer burden 
    In a concerning finding, an official report stated that 25% of cancer patients in Nagaland “never took treatment because of financial difficulties” while results on other parameters were not flatter
  • A Coming Community for Clean Election
    Dr Asangba Tzudir Clean election has been a much mulled over topic for some time now and it has generated mixed feelings, divided between optimism and pessimism. Optimism comes from the overwhelming chorus t
  • ‘Writing’ history
    Moa Jamir “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it,” goes a popular quote attributed to former British Prime Minister, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, commonly known as Winston Chu
  • Rounding up all offenders, big and small
    Imlisanen Jamir As news broke that another person had been killed along the Dimapur-Chümoukedima highway in another vehicle accident on August 9, along with it, also came the increasing sense of danger
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