Infocus

  • The road most travelled...
    Perhaps the road most travelled by people in Nagaland would be the National Highway No 29 between Kohima and Dimapur. Many of us come to the capital for some purposes or work etc...at different times. I am one
  • Does India have an elected or nominated PM?
    Ten years ago, on May 18, 2004 to be precise, the Central Hall of the Indian parliament witnessed political theatrics of an exceptional variety. Two hundred Congress leaders extremely dejected, feeling almost o
  • A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES At the heart of Ukraine drama
    In this photo taken on Tuesday, February 25, 2014, the Russian and Ukrainians flags decorate windshield of a bus, in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. If Ukraine looks neatly delineated on maps, its history is a tangle
  • Surgery, wigs, tape: Stars' red carpet secrets
    The flawless looks about to be unveiled on the Oscars red carpet have been months in the making and require an army of experts.With perhaps the highest concentration of cameras anywhere in the world that night,
  • Few Army women want combat jobs
    Only a small fraction of Army women say they'd like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do say they want a job that takes them right into the heart of battle, according to preli
  • The rise of extremist Buddhism in Sri Lanka
    Suddenly, a group of monks, with heads clean shaven and wearing saffron & red robes, emerge out of nowhere on a dark street in Colombo. Armed with machettes, stones and other weapons, and their faces deform
  • A Statement of Epic Proportion
    The energetic and frenetic Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal has finally resigned after being in a roller-coaster political ride for 49 days. Ever since taking up the reins of power in Delhi in the last w
  • TRANSITION
    Nagas are going through a rough transitional period. The issue of unabated taxation has stirred up a lot of awkward but relevant subjects that have been bottled up for so long by the masses, unable to express t
  • Can we ever hope for safe, clean, green, slum-free cities?
    Our cities are a mess. Rapid urbanisation is one of the signs of economic development, but filthy overcrowded, unsafe and unhygienic cities are not necessarily a corollary to development. In this era of inverte
  • A pop quiz for things learned in Sochi games
    You've just spent two weeks of your life watching things you won't even think about for another four years. Worth it? Perhaps, though putting up with Bob Costas in nerdy glasses wasn't an Olympic moment to reme
  • Global Citizenship Key to World Peace
    Nobel Laureate Betty Williams started her speech to a peace forum at the U.N. headquarters on February 21 with perhaps the last thing the audience would expect her to say.She urged them to stop glorifying worki
  • Punjab's favorite protest venue, the water tank!
    Protests by various groups and organizations in Punjab are going sky high - literally, that is! People are now clambering up water tanks to hold protest.In recent years, tower-type community water tanks have be
  • Time Can Transform Lives
    Most fathers, if not all, when asked, ‘what grades their kids are in?’ have a fairly strong chance of getting it wrong, so much for “best dad in the world.” Statistics show that mothers
  • Financing Education
    Rahim Ali’s son Saddiq is a brilliant student. A well- mannered lad, he made us all proud a few years ago, when he stood sixth in the Senior Secondary examination of our State. Currently pursuing his furt
  • How to make our parliament more accountable
    The last session of the 15th Lok Sabha brings to an end one of the most disappointing periods in the short parliamentary history of India.The numbers tell part of the story: this Lok Sabha saw over 800 hours, o
  • ‘Our films misinform about cancer’
    Manisha Koirala, who hails from Nepal and emerged a star in Bollywood and then survived cancer, does not approve of the kind of portrayal that cancer patients get in Hindi films where they are invariably shown
  • Morocco, modern Islam, and the future of Africa
    In the wake of unprecedented Islamist explosions and attacks across North Africa, the foreign ministers of 19 countries - including France and much of North Africa - launched an equally unprecedented response.
  • RECLAIMING THE WORD
    Native American Christians dressed in traditional regalia. FOR GENERATIONS, Native North Americans and other Indigenous peoples have lived the false belief that a fulfilled relationship with their Creator
  • I feel a smelly food attack coming on
    Fear is rising. Many people in the West are terrified that activist cells from Asia could cause chaos in urban areas using small, portable weapons of mass destruction. Yes, I am talking about durians. Recent ev
  • Why WhatsApp is so big in India
    While much of India slept Thursday morning, one news of a big-time sale spread in minutes through the country, on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, long before the mainstream media picked it up. Facebook was buyi
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