Infocus

  • On COVID-19 testing order for healthcare workers
    Pelezoto Pius Kikhi Dimapur  With reference to the order on testing of healthcare workers who have not been vaccinated, every 15 days as and when they report for duty, in local dailies dated July 14, 2
  • Geopolitical indicators India cannot ignore
    D.C. Pathak IANS The long speech of President Xi Jinping at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on the occasion of the CPC's centenary celebration on July 1 and the address of US President Joe Biden to the join
  • Car Fun..!
    What part of the car causes the most accidents?Ans: The nut that holds the wheel!Opened the newspaper this morning and found a whole supplement devoted to cars so I said, well if you can't beat them, join them
  • The Sounds of Silence..!
    A wise old bird sat on an oak-The more he saw, the less he spoke,The less he spoke, the more he heard,Lord make me like that wise old bird.-AnonFor two weeks I’d stopped carrying my phone. My friends thought
  • Colonial Sedition and Democracy..!
    Even as I hear the Supreme Court calling sedition, a ‘colonial’ law, I also hear that a hundred farmers have been slapped with the same ‘colonial’ law for protesting!I agree, nobody likes his car stoppe
  • Those We Touch Everyday..!
    This happened on Valentines Day, a few months ago: I had just finished my jog and was sitting on a bench in the park, when a young girl, who had also been jogging came and sat next to me. “Happy Valentines Da
  • Peeping Out of the Window..!
    There’s a big difference between looking out of your window and peeping out, and generally the difference lies in the attitude of the person at the window: Does he or she want to be seen? If she doesn’t wan
  • God At Your Window..!
    Many of us have done something in the past which always makes us feel guilty, and which is also used by others to remind us of that guilt:There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm. He was g
  • Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet: Data
    William A. Masters and Anna Herforth The Conversation The COVID-19 pandemic has caused price spikes for corn, milk, beans and other commodities, but even before the pandemic about 3 billion people could not
  • “The Critical Importance of Ecosystem Restoration”
    Ameenah Gurib-Fakim Inter Press Service June 2021 marked the launch of UN Decade on Ecosystem restoration. This effort aims at reversing the damage that us humans have caused and are still causing to Nature
  • Visiting Mahabalipuram and Spain, to See What?
    A moneyed friend of mine had just come back from a holiday he’d spent at Mahabalipuram, the temple town a few kilometres from Chennai. Since I’d been there a few times, I’d told him about the carvings, th
  • UN Food Systems Summit Opportunity for the World to Unite on Healthy, Fair & Sustainable Food Systems
    Alison Kentish Inter Press Service Before the COVID-19 pandemic upended every sphere of life, the world was lagging on a goal to end hunger by 2030. According to the United Nations, more than 820 million pe
  • United Nations ready for Breakaway Nations but the Pace Remains Slow
    Thalif Deen Inter Press Service South Sudan’s independence from the rest of Sudan was the result of a January 2011 referendum held under the terms of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that
  • Bangladesh’s Indigenous Forest Dwellers Fear Losing Ancestral Land as Officials Grapple with Land Grabs
    Rafiqul Islam Inter Press Service When the Bangladesh Forest Department felled Basanti Rema’s banana orchard, Rema, a Garo indigenous forest-dweller of Madhupur Forest, felt she was living a nightmare
  • From KnowAll to LearnAll..!
    A few decades ago, the family doctor reigned supreme! From a common cold to cancer, families sought his advice. His word was the gospel. His clinics were full.His diagnosis was good, his manner amiable, but ala
  • Looking Way Ahead..!
    Was sipping tea in the back seat of my car when my driver suddenly braked, throwing scalding hot tea from my glass all over me, "Sorry sir," he said as he looked in the rear view mirror. I rubbed the hot steamy
  • Too Much Wine..!
    T’was a fancy restaurant we went to, the waiter not only had a stiff upper lip, but same surgeon had turned his nose up in the air too. “What will you have sir?” he smirked.“Wine!” I said“Which one?
  • Big Tech vs India: A bumpy road ahead for us
    Nishant Arora IANS When Big Tech denounced former US President Donald Trump from various platforms and refused to restore access for him despite several warnings, one thing was clear: One cannot win against
  • Peace in an Art Gallery?
    In a doctor’s clinic a worried patient lay on the doctor’s couch, “What you need,” said the psychiatrist, “is to get away to a peaceful place, where you can enjoy beauty for awhile, like a…”“An
  • Our DNA Is the Same..!
    ‘..DNA of all Indians are same, irrespective of religion..’ RSS Chief, Mohan Bhagat.How easy it is for us to voice words such as, ‘All Indians are my brothers and sisters!’ and then quietly turn away fr
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