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  • Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land
    Khrietuonyü Noudi   The song “Rivers of Babylon” was written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group ‘The Melodians’ in 1970. But the song remained rela
  • The Naga Morung
    Sentilong Longchar Asst Professor, St Joseph’s College (A), Jakhama There are many forms of dormitories in India, each with different names and customs. The institution of men’s dormitory is found l
  • Novel feeds for economic feeding of pigs
    Dr Lily Ngullie ACTO (Animal Science), KVK Longleng, ICAR RC for NEH Region, Nagaland centre Introduction: In swine production, feed alone represent 70-75% of total cost of production. In intensive p
  • Crop Rotation Towards Sustaining Agriculture
    Dr N Khumdemo Ezung Senior Scientist and head (i/c), KVK(ICAR), Kiphire Crop rotation is one of the oldest and most effective cultural control strategies. It means the planned order of specific crops pl
  • Weather based integrated agro advisory for the month of Dec 2019
    Agro Met Field Unit ICAR, Jharnapani. Medziphema        Crop Advisories •    During this month, prune and destroy severely affected twigs of citrus with scales and
  • Success is not just what you perceive
    Lumchio Patton Asst Prof, Dept of Sociology, St Joseph's College (Autonomous), Jakhama What is Success? Well, According to the Oxford Dictionary “Success is the accomplishment of an aim or purpose, th
  • PF Belho: A one-man tribe on a mission to preserve antique Naga art and artifacts
    A part of Belho’s collection at his “haunted” storehouse       Nona Arhe   East Wind   Standing amidst piles of historic Naga wood carvings and scu
  • Pursuit of Wellness: A Holistic Approach
    Sanio David Department of Chemistry, St. Joseph’s college (Autonomous), Jakhama Wellness and illness are very closely related although they seem different. Man is born with a beautiful in-built repair
  • A case for migration (Book Review)
    This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto Suketu Mehta, Jonathan Cape, London, 2019   Shubha Singh  IANS  People have migrated through the ages, in search of greener pastures,
  • The Mystery of the German Blood
    Khrietuonyü Noudi   If God had created all men as equals, why is it that some people assert the superiority of their race or blood? Throughout man’s history, bloody wars had been fought over this il
  • The Mystery of the German Blood
    Khrietuonyü Noudi   If God had created all men as equals, why is it that some people assert the superiority of their race or blood? Throughout man’s history, bloody wars had been fought over this il
  • Making choices today determine our lives tomorrow
    Rukutalu Veswuh Asst. Professor, St. Joseph’s Autonomous College, Jakhama Choice implies the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things which is preferred. Our lives comprises of c
  • Ram temple provides substratum to India's identity
    DC Pathak  IANS The judicial resolution of the 70-year-old Ayodhya dispute has mitigated the most inflammatory cause of Hindu-Muslim divide in India and given relief to the average citizens engaged
  • Prime Minister looks inwards for improving governance
    DC Pathak  IANS  With a remarkable insight into how the governance in this country ought to be upgraded, Prime Minister Modi while addressing the Probationers of Indian Civil Services attendin
  • Embracing market prices vital for India
    Taponeel Mukherjee   IANS  Issues that sectors such as residential real estate, credit markets and power generation amongst others have faced in India can be viewed through the lens of the "ina
  • TODAY IN HISTORY - NOVEMBER 08
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 08   Reuters 1923 - Adolf Hitler tried to start a putsch in Munich, but was arrested four days later.   1960 - Demo
  • TODAY in HISTORY: November 7
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Nov 07   Reuters 1916 - Jeannette Rankin becomes first woman elected to U.S. Congress.   1917 - Russian Bolsheviks under Vla
  • Simple Nature
    Madovi David Asst Prof Dept of Chemistry, St Joseph's College (Autonomous) Jakhama Dictionary defines ‘nature’ as “The natural world that consists of all things i.e. the natural environment”.
  • TODAY in HISTORY: November 06
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Nov 06   Reuters   1928 - Hebert Hoover becomes U.S. President.   1995 - Israel buried Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, ass
  • TODAY IN HISTORY
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 05     Reuters 1912 - Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the U.S. presidency, becoming the only man to defeat two former preside