The recent with holding of the extremely biased SRD by the state govt is a huge welcome step and will go a long way in teaching the Govt from making any hasty and frivolous so called equality recruitment drives

Like the previous visit from the ATM Booth, I went to my friend’s house.“Tajung, are you home?”Then my friend answered, “Here, come to my bedroom.”Then he asked me where I was comi

Those who oppose the replacement of the current first-past-the-post system that elects our representatives to the State Assemblies and Parliament, with the ‘majority’ system in which only a candidat

1.    First of all, I thank the Indian Embassies and the Indian Chamber of Commerce Calcutta for arranging this forum enabling the Eastern and North Eastern States of India to converge and create

GO YEComposed on 20th October 1997 Hong Kong“Go Ye Into All the World” covers the whole world; “Witness unto the uttermost” means every place; “All Nations” means  ethni

Recently, during the trial in London of Pakistani cricketers accused of match fixing, the prosecution lawyer made damaging revelations about illegal betting syndicates in India, run by “shadowy figures

Corruption is the talk of the day. Anna Hazare’s movement against corruption has rocked the whole nation. We wonder why India, the land of many religions and deep rooted spiritual traditions and values is

925 million people go to bed hungry every night. At the same time, 1.5 billion people are obese. These attention grabbing figures are just the latest in a long line of counterintuitive hunger statistics. In Afr

I feel like I have been waiting for this moment an entire lifetime. More like a hundred lifetimes when I count the 500 years and lifetimes of all our indigenous ancestors who went to their graves wondering if j

Minorities accounted for 98 per cent of the population growth in the U.S.' largest metropolitan areas over the past decade, according to a new report, as the country's white population continued to stagnate, an

To protest against the decision of Planning Commission of India to file an affidavit with ridiculous definition of poverty, growing number of people from many cities will observe a five-days fast (22-26 October

The forgotten struggle of Iron Lady Irom Sharmila against Arm Forces Special Power Act 1958 (AFSPA) for last 11 years, has finally appeared in national debate today. Team Irom Sharmila took advantage from Anna

James Kikon: Are you working outside Nagaland? Are you satisfied living in the cities (and your work) or want go back (Like I have heard from most of us)? Could you give some reasons for your choice? Opinions?

My fingers hovered over the smooth keys of my paper-thin MacBook Air as I read the first notice of Steve Jobs’s death Wednesday evening. A second later, my iPhone and iPad lit up like fireflies. As I sat

Nagaland is supposed to be a Christian state as most of its citizens are Christians. Theoretically, this means that the kingdom of God must be reigning in Nagaland. But if we look at the religious, political, a

The crisis of governance in India cannot be resolved without considering radical political reforms that would lead to the creation of a new republic. We must take a hard look at where we have gone wrong and why

WORLD SIGHT DAY is celebrated worldwide on the 2nd Thursday of October since the year 2000. The theme for this year world Sight Day is ‘Eye Care for All’. On this day general awareness on Eye Care a

Policymakers around the world need to step up their critical efforts to combat hunger, malnutrition, and poverty by providing greater support for agriculture, according to researchers with Worldwatch Institute'

While the United Nations is in debate over Palestinians’ request for UN membership, the US has already announced their decision to veto. But the over two thirds of Americans who are neither Jewish nor Eva

Either Europe develops into a political union or it moves backward as a continent of nation-states that have neither political nor economic clout – surpassed by China and other emerging nations.Economic c