Infocus

  • What’s Easy, What’s Difficult..!
    How often we pray for an easy path, an easy life without problems and worries, but have we ever thought that so many of the difficult things we go through are what puts spice into our earthly lives? That what w
  • Millions go hungry– while billion worth of food go into landfills
    Thalif Deen Inter Press Service  The ominous warnings keep coming non-stop: some of the world’s developing nations, mostly in Africa and Asia, are heading towards mass hunger and starvation. T
  • Human Error..!
    Indian cricket, I had heard a few years ago, was against modern technology that would reduce human error when it comes to umpiring decisions! Howzat! They would prefer the men in white coats to remain on the fi
  • Crucial illegal road threatens Amazon rainforest
    Fabiano Maisonnave The Associated Press  An illegal dirt road ripping through protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon is now just a few miles shy of connecting two of the worst areas of deforestation i
  • Little talk of rainforest protection in the Amazon
    Fabiano Maisonnave The Associated Press In the Brazilian Amazon these days, it’s nearly impossible to run for office talking up the environment. More common is a scene like this: A candidate for Co
  • Too Short or Too Fat..!
    Very often I meet people who tell me, “If I wasn’t sickly, I would have done well in life!”Or it could be, “I wish I was beautiful then I would have succeeded in whatever I put my hands too!”Or, “Do
  • Native groups seek to repair lands damaged by colonization
    Philip Marcelo The Associated Press  Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal Massachusetts this month and began steadily hacking the towering, dense vegetation do
  • My Own Car..!
    Many decades ago my father, a businessman, decided to start exporting handicrafts to the USA. He went to the emporiums and shops which had the items, found out who the people were who were making it, and sent s
  • Book Review of T Keditsu’s ‘Ukepenuopfü: An Angami Folktale Reimagined’
    Review by Kevileno Sakhrie  “Each year, Ukepenuopfü weeps, her tears bathing the skies, rushing down the mountain and flooding the plains. Each year, her beloved soaks in these tears and reme
  • The complex question of Taiwanese independence
    Ben Saul, University of Sydney “Strategic ambiguity” – the policy that has underpinned the West’s defence of Taiwan for half a century or more – rests on another ambiguity: Taiw
  • All bodies are good bodies: A reminder
    Müzitalü Lohe, B.A. 5th Semester, Department of English, Modern College, Kohima Body Shaming has become a common thing which affects the lives of many young people today. Receiving unfavourable r
  • Noise and the Waterfall..!
    We are a noisy people.I remember going down to another city for a wedding, and staying with a friend, who had given me the best room in the house. A room with a sit out on the terrace with even a little waterfa
  • Forgive And Be Healthy..!
    Let me tell you my dear readers that it is easy to write about certain issues, but quite often it is difficult to practice what you preach, and one area for me was forgiveness. One day a friend of mine, heard m
  • Sunrise, Sunset..!
    As my daughter left back to her home in New York last month, my eyes were moist, was this ‘the little girl I carried?’ I wondered, and my mind went back a few years: All you fathers having daughters kn
  • Crypto scam revenue slips 65% amid economic downturn
    As the global downturn continues, the crypto scam revenue for 2022 also dropped 65 per cent at $1.6 billion this year, lower than where it was through the end of July in 2021 IANS As the global downturn c
  • If Hitler Had a Coach..!
    No, not a coach to have taught Hitler to paint better, though I do believe if he’d had one to show him how to paint houses better, he would have been the richest house painter in Austria, and the world would
  • Give the future a chance by accepting our differences within essential unity
    Reconciliation has a practical role to play because it gives us a mindset by which we can accept our differences and move beyond our harmful belief that anyone who is not with us is the “other” W
  • Let's Go Fly A Kite..!
    It was a week after the funeral. She had buried her hard working accountant husband, who had painstakingly worked from morn till sundown, risen from clerk to bank manager, sent two children to college and jobs
  • A world in crisis needs both trade and aid
    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Rebeca Grynspan and Pamela Coke-Hamilton Inter Press Service We are in the toughest period the world economy has faced since the creation of the multilateral system more than three-quar
  • Infrastructure Development Threatens Amazon with Further Deforestation
    Mario Osava Inter Press Service The mandatory initial permit granted by Brazil’s environmental authority for the repaving of the BR-319 highway, in the heart of the Amazon jungle, intensified the alar
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