A few days ago the Morung Express did a report ‘Welcome to the Land of Potholes’ focusing on the debilitating state of our roads especially in the commercial hub of Dimapur. Not that we should blame the rai
The Nagaland State Annual Plan Outlay for 2012-13 has been fixed at Rs 2300 crores, which represents a 27% growth over last year’s plan outlay of Rs 1810 crore. However this time around, the significance of t
Climate Change & Local Ingenious SolutionsRio de Janeiro is hosting the Rio+20 global summit, twenty years after the historic Rio Earth Summit (1992) where for the first time global cooperation was sought o
Reflections (cartoon) on Monday issue, June 18, 2012 of the Morung Express is hilarious and perhaps it rightly depicts our Naga mindset as well as our action and behaviour when it comes to sports and the more s
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday, June 21 announced its support to former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma for the Presidential polls. The BJP has been arguing that as the main Opposition, it does not want to
Zone of Peace & TranquilityIn the year 2008, we were witness to increasing factional killings between the (then) two NSCN groups. Fortunately good sense prevailed and with the positive role played by the Fo
Concern about holding free and fair election is in the agenda of all responsible organization or individuals. But are we merely paying lip service to it? As mentioned, every one of us from political parties, ci
In its recent judgment, the Supreme Court has banned the use of sun control films of all shades and colours in cars. While the visibility cannot be less than 30% on side glasses, it can be up to 50% in front an
Recently the Naga Hoho held a consultative meeting with Tribe Hohos wherein several consensus decisions were taken after threadbare discussion in matters pertaining to the common interest of Naga people as a wh
To be reasonable more often than not pays well. Just imagine the amount of stress, conflict or even violence that can be brought down if we only rely on good sense and sound judgment rather than our emotion whe
Should the Cong swap places between Pranab & Manmohan?The race for India’s new President, to take over from incumbent Pratibha Patil whose tenure ends in July, is turning out to be a playground for a thri
Marking the third anniversary of the UPA II government, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi recently put the ruling coalition in poll mode, warning her party and allies that they have two years to get their act togethe
Marking a historic visit to Myanmar, the first by an Indian Prime Minister in 25 years, Manmohan Singh held extensive talks with Myanmar President Thein Sein, drawing up a roadmap for future course of bilateral
During April this year while addressing the joint celebration of the Aoleang and Monyü festival of the Konyak and Phom Nagas respectively, at The Heritage in Kohima under the aegis of Eastern Nagaland Peoples
The race for the next President of India has been quite a talking point in the last month or so with the media keeping the interest alive through various commentary as well as speculation. Initially the names o
A psychology professor at San Diego State University, Jean Twenge has come out with a study claiming that young people of today are more fixated on money, fame and self-aggrandizement, rather than serving the s
According to a study of the conservation group WWF, biodiversity has decreased by an average of 28 percent globally since 1970 and the world would have to be 50 percent bigger to have enough land and forests to
In significant yet surprising statement, the National President of the BJP Nitin Gadkari has assured that a separate State of Frontier Nagaland will be created if the BJP led NDA comes to power at the Centre. T
In significant yet surprising statement, the National President of the BJP Nitin Gadkari has assured that a separate State of Frontier Nagaland will be created if the BJP led NDA comes to power at the Centre. T
The power situation in Nagaland refuses to improve. It may be that we will have to pray and wait for enough rains in the next few weeks to see an improvement or perhaps a miracle from God. And also despite maki