Editorial

  • Unemployment – a political disease
    Unemployment worldwide has reached high proportions, which according to the International Labor Organizations (ILO) report was 185.9 million people worldwide, or 6.2 percent of the global labor force in 2003-04
  • Inclusive Growth
    The steps that have been taken in the Union Budget to give a boost to the sluggish agricultural sector is a welcome shift from the reform minded Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram as it will ensure that t
  • Losing on Issues
    With announcement of results to the three States which went to polls, except for Manipur, there will be new governments in Punjab and Uttarakhand. The immediate political fallout of the Assembly Elections resul
  • India’s Singurs
    Right from its inception, the proposed small car project of Tata Motors in Singur, West Bengal has come under a cloud with even the Calcutta High Court now questioning the West Bengal Government’s land acquis
  • Critical times
    To say humankind is going through critical times is an understatement. We just need to open our eyes to recognize that the manner in which we conduct human affairs is only hastening the human community towards
  • The Futility of Force
    The one critical lesson emerging from the recent developments in the Middle-East is that military force can no longer guarantee absolute victory. Yes, it can contain and maybe weaken the perceived enemy, but it
  • Contracting Illness
    Close on the heels of the recent NPSC selected lecturer’s appointment standoff, wherein the candidates who were selected after going through a competitive examination had to wait for almost three years becaus
  • Where do we go?
    We live in a time where insanity has become the ruling norm. Though there is an air of complacency and indifference, it will be fair to say that people are tired and quite fed up with the direction that Naga so
  • Deprived Growth
    Nearly half of Asia’s 1.27 billion children live in poverty - deprived of food, safe drinking water, health or shelter. While 600 million children under the age of 18 lack access to one of these basic human n
  • Human Tragedy
    The murderous ploy of terrorists who blasted the peace train—Samjhauta Express—plying between the Indo-Pakistan border and the killing of 67 people, including some Pakistani nationals, is a cruel reminder t
  • Democratic Check
    The landmark decision of the Supreme Court Wednesday February 14 disqualifying 13 Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) legislators in Uttar Pradesh—who broke away from the party to support the Mulayam Singh Yadav go
  • Political Barometer
    After a period of lull, the pace of political activity in the State has stepped up thanks to the bye-election for the Dimapur-I and 54 Tuensang Sadar-II Assembly Constituency to be held on March 8. With the las
  • Engaged to Peace
    North Korea agreed Tuesday to take the first step towards nuclear disarmament and shut down its main reactor within 60 days before eventually dismantling its atomic weapons program.Under the deal, Pyongyang wil
  • Season’s Greetings
    Akangjungla A little less than two week time is away for the Christmas Day. The traditions of putting up decorations, lighting up the streets and homes, shopping, making plans for vacation etc are now part
  • Prisoners of Uncertainty?
    Growing restlessness and lingering lethargy enveloping the Naga skyline is causing an uneasy sense of acute cynicism and unfocused anger, just churning restlessly for its release. The internal and external cond
  • Moily Dose of Ethics
    The Moily Committee report is out. The second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) headed by former Karnataka Chief Minister Verappa Moily has recommended major changes to the Representation of the People Ac
  • Delivering the Goods
    Nagaland’s Annual Plan outlay for the year 2007-2008 was approved on February 6 at a meeting between the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Ri
  • Governor’s Peace Memo
    Putting the peace issue right up front before the people of Nagaland, new Governor K. Sankaranarayanan has rightly pointed out that it is the combined responsibility and the bounden duty of everyone to make use
  • Jungle Law
    The murder of seven persons in Kiphire district on February 8 by unidentified assailants is a shameless act of cowardice and one that has shocked the sense of peace loving people. The cruel manner, in which the
  • Courage of Conviction
    Despite mounting threats from different quarters including from an armed underground faction, the Naga students from the four hill districts of Manipur have shown great courage of conviction to come and sit for
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