The report carried by Time magazine on India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calling him an “underachiever” is, well not something like a bolt out of the blue isn’t it. It really is time for Manmohan to
Wednesday, 19th November, 2025
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It was very distressing to read a news report carried in a local daily about a central road project of 300 plus kilometre and amounting to over Rs 1000 crores being subjected to ‘extortions’ by underground
BJP-supported Presidential candidate PA Sangma has said that Congress will not have a cake walk in the election to the top constitutional post of the country. Perhaps this is going to be so given the way the wi
It’s more than just development deficit New States are usually created after taking into consideration a number of factors—ethno-cultural, language, economic viability to name a few. The announcement b
It is common knowledge that the bane of administration in Nagaland has been that the quality of its work force and subsequently the poor motivation and interest shown resulting in the deteriorating work ethics
The situation in the Northeast region has improved relatively as compared to what it was about five years ago. The Naga groups are in ceasefire with the Government of India and most of the outfits in Assam have
The reports in the last few weeks about the corruption and abuse of office by people running the affairs of the Dimapur Municipal Council should come as no surprise. In fact the rot within the DMC has been well
The objective of the Nagaland Baptist Church Council’s clean election campaign, which was kick started with the release of a booklet, “Engaging the powers: Elections- A spiritual issue for Christians”, is
A few days ago the Morung Express did a report ‘Welcome to the Land of Potholes’ focusing on the debilitating state of our roads especially in the commercial hub of Dimapur. Not that we should blame the rai
The Nagaland State Annual Plan Outlay for 2012-13 has been fixed at Rs 2300 crores, which represents a 27% growth over last year’s plan outlay of Rs 1810 crore. However this time around, the significance of t
Climate Change & Local Ingenious SolutionsRio de Janeiro is hosting the Rio+20 global summit, twenty years after the historic Rio Earth Summit (1992) where for the first time global cooperation was sought o
Reflections (cartoon) on Monday issue, June 18, 2012 of the Morung Express is hilarious and perhaps it rightly depicts our Naga mindset as well as our action and behaviour when it comes to sports and the more s
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday, June 21 announced its support to former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma for the Presidential polls. The BJP has been arguing that as the main Opposition, it does not want to
Zone of Peace & TranquilityIn the year 2008, we were witness to increasing factional killings between the (then) two NSCN groups. Fortunately good sense prevailed and with the positive role played by the Fo
Concern about holding free and fair election is in the agenda of all responsible organization or individuals. But are we merely paying lip service to it? As mentioned, every one of us from political parties, ci
In its recent judgment, the Supreme Court has banned the use of sun control films of all shades and colours in cars. While the visibility cannot be less than 30% on side glasses, it can be up to 50% in front an
Recently the Naga Hoho held a consultative meeting with Tribe Hohos wherein several consensus decisions were taken after threadbare discussion in matters pertaining to the common interest of Naga people as a wh
To be reasonable more often than not pays well. Just imagine the amount of stress, conflict or even violence that can be brought down if we only rely on good sense and sound judgment rather than our emotion whe
Should the Cong swap places between Pranab & Manmohan?The race for India’s new President, to take over from incumbent Pratibha Patil whose tenure ends in July, is turning out to be a playground for a thri
Marking the third anniversary of the UPA II government, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi recently put the ruling coalition in poll mode, warning her party and allies that they have two years to get their act togethe
