Blair Glencorse and Sanjeeta Pant
Inter Press Service
The G20 is meeting again next week in Indonesia for the second time this year- at a moment when the world is facing the most difficult economic, p
Was enjoying my coffee on my terrace garden this morning, watching friendly squirrels and birds pecking at pieces of bread I’d thrown for them, then slowly began to feel restless, even as I was enjoying the m
P Achumse Yingbithongru
Much anticipated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)& investment conclave 2022 to be held in the first week of July has generated much déjà vu and excitement
N Suhuto Chishi
Youth Secretary, NBCC
Dear Baptist Youth Leaders and Young People of Nagaland! Greetings from the Office of NBCC Youth Department (NBCCYD). As different churches under NBCC observes NB
She stood, a small figure in front of the school notice board. With anxious eyes she searched for her number. It wasn't there.The girls around her jostled and pushed. There were screams of delight and shrieks o
Zeke Miller
The Associated Press
One year ago, Joe Biden strode into his first Group of Seven summit as president and confidently told the closest U.S. allies that “America is Back.” Now, many o
A new leader in the Philippines, and a family’s old wounds
Philip Marcelo
The Associated Press
He was the uncle I never met. But in my family’s origin story, Emmanuel “Manny” Yap
Paul N Rengma
Former General Secretary, NSU Bangalore
Has Christianity failed the Nagas? According to the 2011 census, 87.93% of the Nagas are Christians in Nagaland. Baptist is a major denomination in Naga
“If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito.”Quite often I see people who don’t want to be noticed. It’s not that they are not noticed, it’s
How much money did it take for so many MLAs to cross the floor, betray their leader, betray their voters, forget their ideology and run to the other end of the country? I wonder what people do with so muc
Busani Bafana
Inter Press Service
In early June 2022, more than 30 people from the Maasai community in the Loliondo division in Tanzania’s northern Ngorongoro District were reportedly injured, and one
Ellen Knickmeyer and Yong Jun Chang
The Associated Press
The headlines on the newsstands in Seoul blared fresh warnings of a possible nuclear test by North Korea.
Out on the sidewalks, 28-year-old office
Something I love doing if I go for a drive, is to instruct my driver to drive slowly, while I look down every street, into every shop, sometimes homes that have their doors open. I gaze at people going about th
A year ago, on that morning of July 5th in a hospital in Mumbai, a voice spoke, “You’re free Father Stan!”“Free? How can I be free, I’ve been languishing in prison for over eight months! Hey!”“Wha
“I hope I’m not going to put you and your family to any inconvenience,” I tell my friend as I enter his house.“No problems,” for any of us, “We have a guestroom waiting for you!”I shudder when I h
Arunima Malik and Mengyu Li
The Conversation
The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported from overseas is driving up global greenhouse gas emissions, our n
Tungshang Ningreichon
In an unusual memorial of a woman who died a year earlier, her parents and lone brother chose to grieve in grace by speaking about her death, in a solemn commemoration on 3rd June at Do
The joyous shouts from the private swimming pool outside, the thought of a scrumptious breakfast soon, the sight of my two beloved daughters and their husbands, and hot coffee brought to my little cottage by my
“Dad,” said my daughter one day, “Isn’t it Central Park that you’ve always loved?” I was quiet, because though I loved the park and all the fall colours I was sure it offered, I still knew that it w
Yesterday was Father’s Day, which made me remember a story I told prisoners in a jail about another father. It so happened that a team invited me to visit a prison in Mumbai. What I saw that day in that priso