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  • Challenges Faced by Indian Church
    The Christians along with other minority communities are facing serious challenges in last one and half decade. The challenges have become more severe with the raise of fascist forces in India. Most of these ch
  • Private Vehicles & Taxis Vis-a-Vis Commuter & Traffic Congestion
    As a daily commuter in Kohima, it is sad to learn that private vehicles running on hire/fare have come under the scanner of All Nagaland Taxi Association, ANTA. There are certain time and places in Kohima where
  • My Tryst with Northeast India The Leadership Question
    We, the people in the margin of Indian sub continent, ie, Kashmir, Northeast region of India comprising the seven sister states particularly tribal and tribes of other states like Chattisgarh and  Jharkhan
  • Ntangki Forest: An ecological issue and concern of the Nagas
    The Govt of Nagaland initiated a people consultative meeting dated 20th June 2009 Kohima  represented by Council of Ministers, Naga Hoho, ENPO, NSF, NMA, and Naga tribal Hohos;  a resolution passed on
  • Reject the govt draft of the National Food Security Bill
    A Statement from the Steering Committee of the Right to Food Campaign forwarded by the Asian Human Rights CommissionThe Steering Committee of the Right to Food Campaign, with over forty representatives met in B
  • IF GOD COULD SPEAK
    I do not recognize who I am'I've been in darkness for so long,That I am blind,I am afraid.I wish that I could talk to God,To ask Him what I need to do?But deaf am I,From long nights of screaming.Such pain I now
  • Development, justice and the Constitution
    Three judgments by the Supreme Court, in July, demonstrate the significance of social action. They draw important connections between courts, social sciences and social movements; connections that are often for
  • Why are we the only target?
    Of late, the NSF has been agitating about their so-called “backdoor appointments” in the power department and there have been various opinions about it. Though we are being made the fierce target, w
  • ON BACKDOOR APPOINTMENT...What Needs to be Done?
    The agitation against backdoor appointments in the power Department initiated by the NSF is definitely noteworthy. While appreciating its efforts I've been left to wonder whether it is only the Power Deptt that
  • Quota syndrome-a serious issue
    STs/SCs/OBCs have the privilege of reservations in Central government jobs, admissions to educational institutions etc. However, that privilege of reservation is applicable only when those candidates attain the
  • Letter from a Norwegian in Vienna
    People comfort each other outside Oslo City Hall as they participate in a "rose march" in memory of the victims of Friday's bomb attack and shooting massacre on Monday, July 25. Anders Behring Breivik
  • For Amy
    In this poignant and sensitive piece, comedian Russell Brand talks about the tragic loss of his friend, singer Amy Winehouse. In an impassioned conclusion, Brand surmises that "We need to review the way so
  • Grave Injustice
    As per the government orders published in the local dailies on 19th and 20th July, the Nagaland government has reappointed and regularized the services of over 1500 bogus teachers who had been under suspension
  • NAGAS LET US NOT BE IN OBLIVION
    We were split into groups arising from both known and unknown reasons. And even after so long years of decades we still remain split. As a matter of fact, so long has the process of reconciliation been. Reconci
  • Appointing the best qualified workforce through fair play
    Apropos of the reports regarding the unearthing of illegal appointments made in government departments and the ongoing agitation by the NSF against such appointments, and in what it appears to be targeting only
  • Peace and Development in Northeast India
    Many people talk about peace and development, but how many of us sincerely want peace and development in North East India? Arms Force Special Power Act (AFSPA) was introduced in NE regions in 1957 and re-impose
  • Pig production in Nagaland: Problems and Prospects
    Meat and meat products are a great demand in Nagaland. Meat is an integral part of a Naga meal. Almost cent percent of the population consumes meat and also there is no taboo associated with consumption of any
  • Mapping South Sudan
    Six months before South Sudan officially declared its independence, becoming the world's newest nation on 9 July, eight people met in an unremarkable boardroom in Glasgow over tea and biscuits to plot one of th
  • Wendi Deng: The real power behind the throne
    What did Wendi Deng first see in the billionaire Rupert Murdoch? It's the oldest joke in the book and one that has long been directed at this relationship – by everyone from supposedly hostile Murdoch fam
  • Heads: A Toast to the New Naga Generation
    Let us take a break from all the negative energy and pessimism growing within and give a round of applause to all young Naga achievers taking us to the Global stage within a span of just one week! They have pro
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