One of the most common news items that you will come across in the local dailies in Nagaland is the seizure of contraband liquor whether by the excise, police, paramilitary, national groups or even local studen
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Mamata Banerjee has pulled her party; the Trinamool Congress out of the Congress led UPA government headed by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Mamata has obviously read her cards well—the manner in which the
The winning of the World Tewnty20 title by West Indies over host Sri Lanka on Sunday, October 7 has led to the media world hailing the return of the West Indies back to the world stage. As some of us who have s
Aheli MoitraLast year, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) broke a 17-year ceasefire with the Government of Myanmar. In the same year, the Government of Myanmar was hit by the reform bug. In tune with the r
There is a strong anti-Congress wave sweeping across at least the media world. Switch on your television set, connect to the internet or read the morning newspapers—it’s all there giving the strong impressi
The annual Right to Information (RTI) week 2012 was officially launched on October 5, 2012 by the Chief Minister of Nagaland. “The seven years of RTI in our state has been so far so good”, was the observati
For those of us who may have not known, the 1990s was the decade of Education for All (EFA). And in order to assess the progress made, another global summit was held in April 2000 at Dakar (capital of Senegal i
Article 371 (A) of the Constitution of India giving special provision to the State of Nagaland has probably been the top news maker this year with a lot of attention given on the rights it gives the Nagas vis-
Across the world we are witnessing a wave of discontent, protest and civil disobedience against State power. Whether a country is having a democratic or non-democratic system or its economy is developed or deve
Aheli MoitraFrom 1963 to 2006, the urban population in Nagaland had proliferated 5.3 times. The 2011 census has shown an urban decadal growth (provisional) of 67.38%. While the state has recorded a negative gro
Avoiding another Sept 1, 2012The fact finding team appointed by the State government to enquire into the incidents of mob violence and vandalisation of properties that took place in and around Dimapur and Chumu
If there is word or a thing that comes close to God it would be cleanliness. As we all know or would have heard—to be clean is described as next to Godliness. And as a Christian state and for a majority of Na
On the occasion of Teachers Day on September 5, 2012, the Morung Express and Tetso College jointly launched the ‘Degree of Thought’, a weekly community column initiated by Tetso College in partnership with
Communist China Vs Christian NagalandFor those of us in Nagaland or even mainland India, the news about a court in China, sentencing former Police Chief Wang Lijun to 15 years in prison for corruption will come
The term violent or peace is both wide ranging in their meaning and manifestation and does not necessarily explain only one or two phenomenon. Violence or violent can mean and imply so many things—killing, to
Aheli MoitraThere are two parts to this world. Divided by hundred. One of the two is invested in warfare. This world researches war, hires consultants to get deeper insights and makes a profit of it. It has emp
In the backdrop of reports quoting a senior commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warning that Iran will target US bases in the region in the event of war with Israel, now what we are learning is tha
Many will probably recall the stand taken sometime in the late 1990s when Naga civil society undertook a mass campaign under the slogan ‘Nagas want solution and not election’ with the mass based organizatio
Can Nagas evolve our own model of political governance?In an interesting piece of news, which is significant in more ways than one, veteran anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare has revealed his plans for the 20
With the great strides made by humankind on the technology front, surely the way we see, hear, read and basically communicate has become so much easier. The genius of the human mind has in fact enabled latest i
