The speed with which the neighbouring States of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh recently started objecting to a possible supra State status towards finding a solution to the Naga Impasse will have convince
Disability is widely recognized as a cross cutting developmental issue that has relevance to all dimensions of social exclusion. Even today, if we link up disability to developmental issues, it raises serious c
In the face of the world’s urgent economic and environmental problems, political leadership is failing. But from the ground up, new tools of understanding are emerging to fill the gap and point a way forw
It was with great ecstasy women of Nagaland welcomed the Gauhati High Court verdict vis-à-vis the issue of 33% women’s reservation in local bodies. As has been published in all local newspapers, the
The anti-corruption drive that took India by storm over the last few months has calmed down a little. That said, it would be wrong to assume that we have seen the last of it. Team Anna did not get what they wer
Different colours of green swirled around us as we walked through the leafy canopy of the thickly growing trees, in the Godavari Project Centre in Kathmandu. Godavari is a 40 hectare pilot project of The Intern
As part of the Hornbill Bill festival, the Beauty & Aesthetics Society of Nagaland (BASN) will present the mother of all the pageants ‘Miss Nagaland 2011’ on 6th Dec 2011 at the State Academy Ha
What is ‘Hornbill Festival?’ I was asked by one of my friends the other day. ‘The answer is very easy, but difficult to describe the details in a few sentences and in a few minutes’, I t
Thirty years since the first reported cases of Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in 1981, the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been unprecedented, especially in terms of global and national initiat
In both Greece and Italy, the biggest threats to the European monetary union, technocrats rather than elected political leaders have been given the daunting task of salvaging the economies, a crucial step towar
STANDING TALL: Evelyn Dale and Theresa Nowlin, from left, received support at the Boston Living Center and now help others there. Decades after being diagnosed with AIDS. HIV continues to have a devastatin
On the 2nd of May 2011, the whole world woke up to the sensational and electrifying news that the world’s most wanted man Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a military operation undertaken by US elite com
ToThe Public Information OfficerRoad & Bridges,Kohima NagalandSub: Application under Section 6 of the RTI Act 2005Sir,Kindly furnish the information sought herein below1. What was the tota
Deep in jungles far from the international spotlight, Myanmar's army continues to torture and kill civilians in campaigns to stamp out some of the world's longest-running insurgencies. Human rights groups say t
Recently there has been a huge hue and cry about the traffic problems faced in Nagaland. In my humble opinion it is a boon for us as we have come to a saturation point where each and everyone of us know that so
Something in the papers the other day struck me as odd. Russia has placed a number of U.S. officials on a blacklist. They are banned from traveling to Russia because of what the Kremlin is calling "h
Reading through “India Human Development Report 2011; Towards Social Inclusion”, I was drawn upon my recent experience of village people during my fieldwork engagement trip. What came up
New York, New York - An absurdist play about two people waiting for someone who never shows up, performed in Arabic by young Palestinian actors, directed by a Jewish Israeli filmmaker and presented on a New Yor
A faded president, discredited rivals, and a dysfunctional political system together spell trouble for the United States - at home and in the world, says Godfrey Hodgson. For anti-Americans and others add
Looking back on the early 21st century from its midpoint, historians (of a sort) will regard it as the Age of Insanity. Who would believe that such a large proportion of the world's grain harvest would be turne