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  • Sudan on the brink
    Sudan, Africa's largest country, the world's tenth largest and one of its poorest, faces partition in a referendum scheduled for January 9. The country is already effectively divided. Seventy per cent of the 43
  • Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: Julian Assange is Not a Terrorist
    After WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London an international group of former intelligence officers and ex-government officials released a statement in support of his work. We speak to one of t
  • Christmas at Tuli
    Tuli is perhaps one of the most beautiful and ideally located towns in the State in every way. Nestled along the bank of the Milak River, the town has a good number of hillocks, streams, plain and high areas, a
  • Collective rights top 2010 headlines
    Bucket-wheel excavators: The most destructive machines on the planet? The bucket-wheel excavator has long scoured the lignite fields of western Germany, erasing whole villages and leaving a trail of bad soil an
  • Let Them Be Heard
    Along with the rest of the world and its myriad of societies, our homeland (Nagaland) has also been awakened with a challenge- to mould and tell about the silent minds and bodies, more commonly known as the Dis
  • Angry New Year Dr Binayak Sen!
    As the New Year of 2011 rolls in it will already be an entire week inside a cold and harsh Raipur prison for Dr Binayak Sen. For many of us the conviction of this well-known health and human rights activist by
  • ENPO demand is no trust vote against DAN
    The demand for separate statehood by ENPO which has come into the open is heartbreaking news. The news has stabbed the hearts of the founding Fathers and Mothers of Nagaland. Hundreds of thousands of lives that
  • Green new year? Whats that?
    Many sincere developmental journalists are frustrated with eating 'green' ideas fed by pot-bellied editors. It is insulting to ask these reporter to dig out green stories, says DEBBY AAt a time when climate cha
  • A Dog’s New Year Resolutions
    My fur is thick and glistening for now it is the cold season in this land. We have only two seasons, the rainy and the cold although it sometimes rains during the latter also. This means that another cycle of 3
  • Stand By Me
    I think about you all the time. . . It’s a lot hard to sleep at night, When I couldn’t hear your sweet voice The way you care, my feelings inside; How hard it is to tell you how much I long you to b
  • Happiness 101: Less tweeting, more meeting
    Studies show that happiness is directly linked to conversations that are substantial, not superficial. Yet our communications are dominated by quick electronic exchanges. In a high-stress era like ours, we need
  • Judgment that risks tainting democracy
    QUESTIONS:Is the maximalist sentence (life imprisonment) justified? Dr. Binayak Sen after the court's pronouncement. (Photo: Special Arrangement) Indian law affords Binayak Sen one automatic right to appea
  • Fulfilling the Purpose of Christmas
    Nagaland celebrated Christmas with more maturity and decency in 2010. Our river sides are quieter and less noisy, roadsides and streets were peaceful, our roads safer, and far less accident with exception of fe
  • Digital divide to blur
    Mobile technology will change lives foreverA connectivity revolution is set to blur India’s digital divide in the coming decade, according to a study conducted by global consultancy firm KPMG. The spread
  • One people, many aspirations
    The Telangana region has had a chequered history of popular movements. The Justice B.N. Srikrishna Committee report submitted to the Central government on December 30 marks a milestone in the history of Andhra
  • Education & society
    ‘Society’ is the only word that brings the people together as one. Centuries back our forefathers settled in groups and roamed around in groups in search of food, shelter, etc. Though they were not
  • Gauging the impact of the Bill Gates grants
    Five years ago, Bill Gates made an extraordinary offer: he invited the world's scientists to submit ideas for tackling the biggest problems in global health, including the lack of vaccines for AIDS and malaria,
  • Clarification on the founder of Kewhira (Kohima) village
    This article is given to clarify who is the real founder of Kewhira Village. As per traditional history the founder of Kewhira Village was late Mr. Tsiera (Stone defender- as he was the youngest son who defende
  • Sedition Decision ‘Misuse’ Of Laws
    I am very upset about the court decision in Chhattisgarh about Binayak Sen. It is a huge perversion of our system of justice, and particularly of the laws concerning sedition. It’s not at all clear, to st
  • Nagaland's Kitchen Open To All
    Raisa Daimary Hindustan TimesFrom the green hills of Nagaland to Green Park of Delhi, Nagaland's Kitchen has made a momentous journey across the miles and opened its doors to the rest of the country. Nagal
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