Infocus

  • The Ninety – Ten Principle..!
    Was reading an article by Stephen Covey the other day and found it so meaningful and true I thought I’d share it with you today: It’s called the 90/10 Principle. It will change the way you manage your life.
  • News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
    Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known: Michel de Montaigne Jan Lundius Inter Press Service During the beginning of the pandemic, people wanted to learn more about COVID-19. Enclosed in the
  • Just a Duck Story..!
    A few years ago while spending a pleasant evening in one of the many family run restaurants in Korea, seated comfortably on cushions at low tables with legs crossed in modified lotus position, the middle aged w
  • High-flying experiment: Do stem cells grow better in space?
    Laura Ungar The Associated Press  Researcher Dhruv Sareen’s own stem cells are now orbiting the Earth. The mission? To test whether they’ll grow better in zero gravity. Scientists at Ced
  • Come Ye Apart and Rest..!
     Exhausted after having written the synopsis of a three act play, getting a top Mumbai theatre personality interested in another, meeting a producer for my film script, and finishing the teaching of my onl
  • Rash Driving and the Police..!
    The Supreme Court feels that the two years imprisonment now meted out for causing death due to rash driving is ‘grossly inadequate’. I agree, but would like to define what the police believe is rash and neg
  • Cost-of-living crisis to hit women hardest, report says
    The Associated Press   A cost-of-living crisis sparked in part by higher fuel and food prices is expected to hit women the hardest, the World Economic Forum reported Wednesday, pointing to a wideni
  • The World is Burning. We Need a Renewables Revolution
    António Guterres Inter Press Service The only true path to energy security, stable power prices, prosperity and a livable planet lies in abandoning polluting fossil fuels and accelerating the renewab
  • Are You Bothered?
    The people are revolting in Sri Lanka! So what?Russia is invading Ukraine! I’m not bothered!A certain community is being bullied! So what, It’s not mine!Every day we read of war, human rights violations, cr
  • Delayed Naga Solution: A Consequence of Disunity
    Paul N Rengma  Research Scholar Since the signing of the Framework Agreement on August 3, 2015 between the NSCN (IM) and the Government of India, every Naga has been yearning for the Naga Political Sol
  • Nothing Is Impossible..!
    Many years ago, I fell sick with a near fatal illness. Most doctors gave up on me, except the Mighty Healer. After getting back on my feet, albeit a little shaky, I remember conducting a choir, in which my gift
  • A World of 8 Billion, Yes, But Only a Few Are Seen as Human Beings
    Baher Kamal Inter Press Service Far-right Brazilian president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, was quoted a year ago or so as saying to a small group of indogenous people that they “now look a bit more like h
  • A World of 8 Billion, Yes, But (II): The Unseen, Untold Story of the 50%
    Baher Kamal Inter Press Service While women and girls have been so far enjoying some of their due rights in Western high-income countries, the overwhelming majority of teenagers and adult women in the impov
  • THE CAMEL, THE NEEDLE – and the UN’s first Woman Secretary-General
    Thalif Deen Inter Press Service A 2.0 version of an ancient Biblical saying reads: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a woman to become the Secretary-General of the United
  • Tap into Indigenous Knowledge to Preserve our Forests
    Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue Inter Press Service A few years ago, I found myself in the Baka indigenous sacred forest in Assok, in Cameroon in the course of my work in supporting them to preserve their forest aga
  • Believing Our Politicians..!
    As I see people applauding, believing wholeheartedly in what our present politicians promise I remembered a joke my late mother had sent me, called 'The Vote for Heaven or Hell!'A powerful senator dies after a
  • Hazardous Kohima Science College Jotsoma road
    Jonas Yanthan  The road from Minister’s Hill junction traversing towards Kohima Science College, Jotsoma demands Government’s attention for urgent rectification of its high volatility to acc
  • Hope and Despair: Journalist Kathy Gannon on 35 years in Afghanistan
    Kathy Gannon The Associated Press The Afghan policeman opened fire on us with his AK-47, emptying 26 bullets into the back of the car. Seven slammed into me, and at least as many into my colleague, Associat
  • Falling in the Bathroom..!
    I still remember that day, I slipped and fell in the bathroom. My feet shot into the air and I fell with a thud on my back. I gingerly opened eyes and found that except for a slightly bruised elbow, I was none
  • Inventing the Future: Is the new age Green Revolution of India here?
    Gene-edited crops powered by CRISPR to address our food security problemsMaanal Gauri, Nainika Gupta, Nandan Mandal, Navjot Kaur, Samhitha Samishetty, Shivank Joshi, and Suhani ShrivastavaDid you know that
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