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  • Community Forests: Last hope for vanishing habitat
    Limalenden LongkumerMokokchung | December 1Hunting to many a Naga is a favourite leisure activity. Almost every Naga family owns a 12 bore shot-gun or a .22 rifle or at least an air rifle, if not a rubber catap
  • AIDS and Women—The Morality Myth
    Y Merina ChishiDimapur| November 30 There are stories that emerge from a place where AIDS is still considered “dirty” and associated with “morality;” and the brutal reality is that women are usuall
  • The Face of 45 yrs Statehood
    Bonnie KonyakDimapur/Mon | November 30 As Nagaland wakes up to its 45th Statehood Day on December 1, many ordinary people across the State will find it difficult to cheer or let alone even remember what it
  • NUKSHINARO: HIV POSITIVE AND RARING TO GO
    Asangla Imsong,Kohima | November 30She comes across as just another quintessential girl next-door - warm, friendly and inviting. She could be mistaken for a college going girl with her petite frame and bubbly s
  • Violence against women: A Reality
    Y Merina ChishiDimapur| November 24 Across the world, violence against women and girls continue unabated despite efforts to curb such violence, by all societies. Irrespective of colour, age, culture and la
  • Master craftsman makes a Statement
    ‘Government job not the only way’ Longrangty LongcharMokokchung | November 23Creativity has no limit, and so is a person’s determination to excel. For thirteen years, Yanger Pongen, a self-taught mas
  • Harnessing traditional healing—the Naga way
    Akangjungla LongcharDimapur | November 22The practice of harnessing herbal and traditional medicines and the natural treatment it offers for various ailments has led to even the World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Factional Violence: Widows’ Spirit of Forgiveness
    Merina Y. ChishiDimapur | November 17Roko was seven months pregnant, when her husband was killed in a factional clash in 1997. When she received news about her husband’s death, Roko refused to believe unless
  • Nagaland Media: Throes of rebirth
    Al NgullieMorung Express NewsThe media in Nagaland is in a state of changeover – not so much for the inevitable changes which functional purposes of history and change compel, but a shift in the paradigm of t
  • History beckons the Nagas
    Yanchen YanthanDimapur | November 14As much as the slogan ‘Change we can believe in’ chanted by the democrats at the US presidential elections became a reality, a reality never witnessed in the history of A
  • Who ask for us, nowadays?
    Zakir HussainDimapur | November 2 The demand for ‘coolie’ in Dimapur Railway Station, is declining these days. “Who asks for us, nowadays?” instantly replies a coolie, to a query on how much they m
  • The Nagas’ and the Kashmiri parallel
    Longrangty LongcharDimapur | November 2Its not every day, that Kashmiri journalists get to visit northeast India especially Nagaland where the longest running political conflict in South Asia is on. There is a
  • Is Nagaland heading for President’s Rule?
    Bonnie KonyakOctober 3 Following a chain of violent incident taking place across the State, today’s gruesome encounter in the State Capital Kohima which killed four persons in broad daylight will give a
  • Drugs wreck Nagaland
    Longrangty LongcharDimapur | September 23 Drug use has been a social problem for the past many years in the Naga society. However, despite the number of measures adopted by the government and the Naga soci
  • Historic UN declaration a boost for Naga rights
    Morung Express NewsDimapur | September 13The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted Thursday a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which upholds human rights of the more than 300 million indige
  • Churches become first casualty of SSA probe
    Al NgullieDimapur | September 6To much embarrassment, two major church councils have become the first to fall to consequent action initiated in the wake of anomalies and financial mismanagement detected in Sarv
  • ‘Slow-down in Naga peace talks worrying’
    Al NgullieDimapur | February 18 Reflecting the overall perspective of India’s position on the more than half-a-century Indo-Naga political issue, some political observers declare that the ‘slowdown’
  • Power shortfall in Nagaland a chronic problem
    Morung Express NewsDimapur | February 5 The electricity department’s recent notice to the public, “to bear with the power crisis till the onset of monsoon” has proved to be an annoyance, yet again. I
  • The man whom God choose to feed the world
    Rup J PaterDimapur | December 15“God wanted to feed not only me but the world … through me!” Meet Milhite Kenye of Chumukedima, a simple Pastor in the service of God. In the prime of his life, Pastor
  • Elections and Customary Law—the need for reforms
    Dominic YazokieKohima | November 20The Naga Customary Law was given special status by an enactment of the Parliament in the late 1980’s. However, our State has not been able to evolve a system of elections by
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