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  • A public engineer: From ‘Innovating-for’ to ‘Innovating-with’
    ApoorvKatochCTLC Fellow, Plaksha University‘Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world’ – Isaac Asimov. The above quote by the Russian born writer and profes
  • Growing Intentionality: From Observation to Birthing a Response
    Dr Brainerd PrinceThis last month, I have been teaching about ‘intentionality’. The word is an abstract noun, and hence is quite distant from our everyday usage. Frequently used terms that are connected to
  • Before Your Song Is Over..!
    Over two decades ago I lay on a hospital bed with a near fatal illness. It was an airconditioned from and as soon as everybody left after putting me there, I scrambled onto my bed weakly, opened the windows and
  • How three young informants made tech giant Google cough up Rs 1,338 cr fine
    Sheikh Qayoom IANS  Three young informants, Umar Javeed, Aaqib and Sukarma Thapar finally forced the tech giant, Google to cough up a whooping fine of Rs 1,338 crore for abusing its dominant position i
  • Living Longer with Punjabi Samosas..!
    “What do I write about?” I pondered aloud.“Me!” said the wife, “That I’m going to live sixteen months less because I married you!”“What utter rubbish,” I said, “your life span will increase
  • Four scenarios for a world in disorder
    David Bach, International Institute for Management Development (IMD) Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent speech to the Communist Party Congress could be one of the most consequential of the decade. He t
  • Think Outside the Box..!
    As I watch many startups crumbling, I’ve realized quite often they all started with brilliant ideas then fell into the trap of borrowing and pumping in money instead of pumping in ideas as they went along. &n
  • World Polio Day - stories of progress – ‘past & present’
    World Polio Day is observed on October 24 every year to raise awareness for Polio Vaccination and Eradication of Polio.  The World Polio Day was established by Rotary International over a decade ago to
  • A No Nose Car..!
    It was during one of my visits to the village I heard a commotion, “What’s happening?” I asked as I walked out of my gate and saw Ramesh my neighbour and his old mother dancing on the road.“Mother’s a
  • Covid-causing virus in air detected with high-tech bubbles
    IANS Researchers have demonstrated that they can identify SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in the air by employing a nanotechnology-packed bubble that ruptures when it comes into contact with the
  • Noxious air sinks life expectancy by 10 yrs, yet action plans remain a wish-list
    Sanjeev Sharma IANS India is the world's second most polluted country. Air pollution shortens the average life expectancy in the country by five years, relative to what it would be if the World Health O
  • Saving Lives Can’t Ever Be Divisive
    Elena L Pasquini Inter Press Service That’s why a new ship with a big white “E” will navigate the Mediterranean Sea. The vessel has a red hull, is more than fifty meters long and has
  • The Joy of Work..!
    If you’re waiting for a windfall, you may go to the grave waiting, because fortune favours the man or woman who plods and puts in hard work every day, and that work should become a joy to us, not a drudgery!W
  • Naga National Prayer Day Benediction
    Rev Dr L Kari Longchar O Lord – our living God, just as you have heard to the cries of your people Israel when they were enslaved in Egypt so we have great hope and trust that you have heard to the cri
  • Coffee Without Karan..!
    When my children were quite tiny I made a trip to New York to visit my parents, and when returning home decided I would fill my suitcases with gifts for my wife and children. So I went shopping.I stared at the
  • Skills and Employment
    Rev Fr G L Khing NEISSR, Chümoukedima Employment is so vast that many people fail to see the totality. Some people sit back and complain about unemployment without raising their hea
  • Prayer of Blessing 
    Rev H Gedeon MINISTER: O Lord, Great and Mighty God, In your presence the Naga Nation is gathering together to seek your blessing. We are unworthy before you but by the grace of Jesus who died on the cross
  • The Burden of Loneliness..!
    Seeing one of her neighbor’s children playing alone, a woman asked him where his brother was. “Oh,” he said, “he’s in the house playing a duet. I finished first.” Too many people find themselves pla
  • Obesity, sedentary lifestyle making young women prone to breast cancer: Experts
    IANS Instances of women below 35 years falling prey to breast cancer are on a steady rise in India, say experts who attribute the trend to obesity and sedentary lifestyle. The medical fraternity across the c
  • Africa, The Looted Continent
    Baher Kamal Inter Press Service Africa. The birthplace of “Homo Sapiens.” The land of plenty. The origin of farming. The richest region in terms of natural resources. And human capital. Home to
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