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"Pretending to Play the Second Fiddle..!”

Last week I wrote about people who played second fiddle and changed the world, but alongside that had written another about many who pretend to play second fiddle and find it convenient to remain doing so, beca

Infocus / 9th September 2025
Israel says airstrikes in Doha targetted Hamas leaders

Jerusalem/Doha, Sep 9 (IANS) Israel launched an unprecedented airstrike in the Qatari capital of Doha on Tuesday, targetting a building used by senior Hamas officials in what Israeli authorities described as an

World / 9th September 2025
PM Modi set ball rolling for GST 2.0 over 1.5 years ago: FM Sitharaman

New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday that the Next Gen GST 2.0 reforms announced by the PM Modi-led government were in the making for more than 18 months and were not rel

Business / 9th September 2025
ECI engages NTK, continues dialogue with political parties to strengthen electoral process

New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday held an interaction with a delegation of the Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK), led by its authorised representative K. Senthilkumar, as part of

India / 9th September 2025
Northern Alliance in splinters, India deepens pragmatic engagement with Taliban

New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) More than four years after the Taliban returned to power in Kabul following the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2021, Afghanistan’s political reality has shifted irreversibly.Once the mos

World / 9th September 2025
Pakistan: Peshawar's Bhai Joga Singh Gurdwara in fragile state due to lack of funds

Islamabad, Sep 9 (IANS) The Bhai Joga Singh Gurdwara, one of the historic Sikh places of worship in Pakistan's Peshawar, remains in ruins due to lack of funds for its restoration, the local media reported on Tu

World / 9th September 2025
President Murmu hails AI tool for catalysing education transformation in tribal areas

New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday hailed Adi Vaani, an AI-based translation tool for tribal languages, as an important step towards language and education transformation in tribal area

India / 9th September 2025
Security heightened at Indo-Nepal border in Bengal; trucks, tourists stranded

Kolkata, Sep 9 (IANS) Security has been stepped up at the Indo-Nepal border in West Bengal in the wake of the Gen Z movement in the Himalayan country that has claimed 19 lives and injured scores of people. At l

India / 9th September 2025
President Murmu hails AI tool for catalysing education transformation in tribal areas

New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday hailed Adi Vaani, an AI-based translation tool for tribal languages, as an important step towards language and education transformation in tribal area

India / 9th September 2025
‘Should we send CM, Ministers to jail?’: Jharkhand HC stays minor minerals auction till PESA law enforced

Ranchi, Sep 9 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday ordered a complete stay on the auction of all minor minerals, including sand ghats in the state.The Court also came down heavily on the state government

India / 9th September 2025
PM Modi announces assistance of Rs 1,600 crore for flood-hit Punjab

Gurdaspur, Sep 9 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a financial assistance of Rs 1,600 crore for flood-hit Punjab, besides Rs 12,000 crore already in the state’s kitty.There will be an a

India / 9th September 2025
Not months, but years required to complete SIR process: Mamata Banerjee

Kolkata, Sep 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday, once again made her stand clear that the special intensive revision (SIR) proposed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) could n

India / 9th September 2025
C.P. Radhakrishnan elected new Vice President

New Delhi, September 9 (IANS) NDA nominee and Maharashtra Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan was on Tuesday elected as the new Vice President, securing a comfortable victory in what was billed as a rare ‘South vs So

India / 9th September 2025
Scholarship Roundup: September 10, 2025

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Morung Learning / 9th September 2025
Quiz #473

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Morung Learning / 9th September 2025
How is paint made?

Dawn Rogala, Smithsonian Institution and Gwénaëlle Kavich, Smithsonian InstitutionCurious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curious

Morung Learning / 9th September 2025
The Unseen Divide

An educated young woman once told me, “We Nagas don’t have mental health issues; that’s something only Hindus face. For us, strong faith is enough—I don’t see the need for a psychologist.” She said

Morung Learning / 9th September 2025
When Dimapur begins to guard its gates, what future awaits its people and its economy?

Rinmayo RainamTetso CollegeWhat makes a law both a shield and a burden at the same time?In Dimapur, the Inner Line Permit (ILP) raises this very puzzle: difficult to enforce, yet impossible to ignore. The ILP i

Public Space / 9th September 2025
Scarlett Johansson talks about casting real Holocaust survivors in directorial debut

Los Angeles, September 9 (IANS) Hollywood actress-director Scarlett Johansson has shared insights on her feature directorial debut. The actress recently attended the Toronto International Film Festival.She reve

Entertainment / 9th September 2025
Time for a Paradigm Shift in the Naga Struggle?

Athong MakuryIn February 2024, the Modi government formally announced the scrapping of the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the imposed India–Myanmar border. While the FMR had long been criticized for its sel

Public Space / 9th September 2025