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  • What women can learn from Cindy Crawford
    Pity the poor supermodel! In an interview with Parade magazine, Cindy Crawford says "I do feel like an outsider now. I just saw the CoverGirl commercial with Taylor Swift and I thought, 'Wow, it is so hard
  • The Industrial and Agricultural Roots of Degenerative Disease
    “But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first,” (Matthew 19:30.) Those words of Jesus hold a lot of hope for Nagaland. The very lack of development to be found here is actually
  • Can America Learn From Others?
    In the March 3 issue of the Time magazine Fareed Zakaria analyzed America 's status in the world. To his own rhetorical question – ‘is America #1?' he answered: “ Yes, the U.S. remains the wor
  • SECRETS OF OUR NATION
    Every good deed and perfect gifts is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17Every individual likes to think that they are the best a
  • Privatising war
    The United Arab Emirates has exposed huge loopholes in international criminal law by announcing a $529 million contract with the Reflex Responses company for an 800-strong force of foreign mercenaries, which co
  • Why Do People Play Sports
    In today’s fast changing world we can’t deny sports as the ‘Universal Language’, because nothing contributes like sports can do to humanity. Some people may not easily agree to my opinio
  • Youths and politics
    Through this column, I would like to enlighten my fellow Naga youths -the context of politics in our day today life. I’ am not an educationist or a writer, but as an aspirant political leader, I felt it a
  • Crime not shame: challenging the ideology of rape
    When American feminist Susan Brownmiller published ‘Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape’ in 1975, thousands of women all around the world who’d been victims of war-time rape were suffering p
  • Death Of Osama Laden And Changing World
    The declaration of death (2nd May, 2011) of Osama bin Laden is mired with many a mysteries, It is also full of blatant violations of International law. It does have a profound impact on the future of global pol
  • Rapture didn't happen May 21, but many believe world will end one day
    Saturday came and went with no reports of the Rapture happening -- as was predicted by one Christian group.But from the Christian militia Hutaree to a preacher with a TV show out of Rochester Hills, the belief
  • Rapid deforestation & lucrative timber trade
    The recent escalation in the price of timber at Kohima and Dimapur to at all time high of Rs 500/ (five hundred) only pre cefty of class A timber has not generated any public protest or demand for justification
  • Mending the Food Security Act
    Two years have passed since the Central government announced that a draft National Food Security Act (NFSA) would be posted on the Food Ministry's website “very soon.” After prolonged deliberations,
  • Making sanitation as popular as cricket
    700 million Indians have cell phones, but 638 million still don’t have access to proper sanitation. At this year’s South Asian Conference on Sanitation, social solutions to the problem were discusse
  • Politicians fear the ex-factor
    Political wives are not as docile as they used to be. In the old days, no sooner had a male politician been caught with his trousers down than there came the routine announcement that his wife was standing by h
  • The Truth about Red Meat
    Does eating red meat increase the risk of dying from heart disease or cancer? It’s a question that keeps coming up, fueled by research and high-profile campaigns by advocacy groups on both sides of the de
  • Women Redefining Democracy
    The women who attended the first international conference of the Nobel Women's Initiative: Women Redefining Peace in the Middle East and Beyond agreed that “the root causes of armed violence are inequalit
  • May 21, 2011: Beginning of the end of the world?
    Herold Camping, President of the Family Radio Christian Network who wrote a self-published book in 1992 proclaimed that the END TIME would come on September 4, 1994 but when it (Rapture) failed to occur on the
  • The meaning of peace in the 21st century
    An essential lesson of the age is that governments acquire their legitimacy through votes of people and respect for human rights, and that this is the best guarantee of security. Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human-rig
  • Need for a coherent policy
    True to form, the Government of India has been caught on the back foot over the pricing of petroleum products. Earlier this year, it formally delinked petrol from the administered pricing mechanism while retain
  • Powerful Prescriptions
    Recently, while visiting the United States, I experienced an incredible providence.  Through a series of remarkable events, I found myself talking on the telephone with the daughter of one of the first wes
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