‘Super-Spreader Events and Super-Spreaders’ was the somewhat curious main topic of the Issue Number 15 of the ‘COVID-19 Weekly Bulletin’ issued by the Integrated Disease Surveillance Pro

Witoubou Newmai It is far from reassuring regarding the coming ‘COVID winter’ as several reports do not give us reasons to feel fine. The reports say the number of COVID-19 cases will rise during

On October 9, the Dimapur Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) urged the State Government and all stakeholders to “thoroughly study the boon and bane of NLTP Act 1989” and suggested for either bringing

Dr Asangba Tzudir In contemporary times, the modern State brings a nexus between ‘sovereign power’ and the human life where the biological life is integrated into the politics of the ‘polit

Imlisanen Jamir Rising COVID-19 transmission among the young in Nagaland is threatening to provide the disease with a gateway into the wider population. Since lockdown restrictions were relaxed in the Sta

Imkong Walling October 2019 was a period in time to (un)remember. As one would recall, a combination of events uncannily came together giving rise to an atmosphere of trepidation with the protracted Indo-Nag

Witoubou Newmai Can we insist on a different cogent note to our story?   American psychiatrist and author Thomas Anthony Harris said in his celebrated book, “I’m OK-You’re OK”

Veroli Zhimo No section of the society is immune to the suffering inflicted by the cumulative failure of successive governments in Nagaland. The Naga people’s experience with governments and governance

Dr Asangba Tzudir In compliance with Unlock 4 guidelines, schools were partially reopened from September 21. With Unlock 5, states and union territories are now given the freedom to decide on reopening of sc

Political pundits in the United States often speak of the ‘October surprise,’ alluding to breaking news events with potential to alter the trajectory of the presidential race in the culminating mont

Imlisanen Jamir A lesson that jumps out of the pages of history is that leaders, political or otherwise, can and will manipulate the masses.  Leaders can strategically manipulate emotion and appeal t

Witoubou Newmai There has been ‘foreverness’ regarding people who are trying to feel good, albeit in varying degrees or variations. The endeavours to achieve these variations have been the reas

Nagaland Government has lots of intents, which seldom concretise. With COVID-19 and the resultant economic challenges brought about by the global pandemic, the State Government seems to be keen to show a sembla

Dr Asangba Tzudir After so many years of negotiations, the Naga struggle for a Political destiny is still ongoing, more so, it has also been seriously deliberated as a discourse within the social and academi

Imlisanen Jamir Even as Parliament passed the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Bill, 2020 last week, which according to the government will bring about transparency in the working of non-profit organization

Imkong Walling With the COVID Cess on fuel gone, making ends meet —if the Nagaland state government is to be believed – would become all the more burdensome and tiding over the current crisis, on

Witoubou Newmai                                     A superficial observation regarding Nagas in the context of the Na

Veroli Zhimo Police Reforms Day in Nagaland went by rather unceremoniously. On September 22, 2006, the Supreme Court gave its landmark judgment listing out seven key steps for ushering in the much-needed

Dr Asangba Tzüdir Amid ironically comical chaotic scenes and uproar, the Rajya Sabha passed two of a set of 3 ‘controversial bills’ related to India’s Agricultural sector. The farm bil

Imlisanen Jamir The past couple of weeks should serve as a reminder that commuters travelling the National Highway 2 between Dimapur and Kohima are doing so under constant danger. The incidents of the past w