Imlisanen Jamir
Welcoming the New Year is usually a festive occasion. However, this year, it feels a little different. Many of us have been looking forward to ringing in 2021 since about March. If not before
Saturday, 6th December, 2025
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- Dr Asangba Tzudir The Spanish flu broke out in 1918 February and continued till April 1920 affecting about 500 million people and took about 50 million lives. After about 100 years such a pandemic in the for
- “Why does debate over an issue gets more participatory and the participants more emotional when the topic is government job quotas and reservation?” this column had posed earlier, wondering whether
- Imlisanen Jamir The holiday season is upon us again, and with the roads for once permitting smooth driving, ‘tis also the season where tragedies traditionally strike. While any recent state-wi
- Information on population, health, and nutrition, among others, in the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5, 2019-20), depicted some concerning pictures of the health status in Nagaland. As per the f
- Veroli Zhimo While a definitive cure is not yet available for COVID-19, the UK and the US has begun vaccinating their people and India has announced its plan and proposed line-up for COVID-19 vaccination.
- Dr Asangba Tzudir The present form of the Nagaland Staff Selection Board regulation 2020 was rejected by the ENSF citing “deliberate suppression and deprived in all aspects for the last six decades&rdq
- Imlisanen Jamir Two major fires which occurred in the State capital over the course of last week are reminders of how our apathetic attitude to fire safety standards poses danger. In particular, ele
- A candid observation paraphrasing from a speech given by a young bureaucrat in the State of Nagaland was recently shared on micro-blogging site Twitter by a user. “Nagas still view govt service/politic
- “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home -- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. [...] Unless these rights have meaning there,
- Nagaland’s ‘Policy for Restricting the Use of Plastics in Nagaland’ was published on the Official Gazette on June 17, 2019. The notification on ‘Total Ban on all Single-Use Plastic in
- Dr Asangba Tzudir For so long, travelling from Dimapur to Chumoukedima was a nightmare having to undergo hours of harrowing dusty bumpy experiences. However that has ended with the completion of the fou
- Imlisanen Jamir As we enter December, we also enter the last month of an old internet staple which has been standing on its last legs for years now. Adobe’s Flash software will end on December 31. &nbs
- Imkong Walling Security has ever remained integral to survival since the dawn of humankind. It was basic— food, shelter and clothing – for early humans before the needs diversified as civilizatio
- Witoubou Newmai Each person has a corresponding response to his/her situation; the response of a sad person and happy person to things, accordingly, may have huge divergence. Citing one case in this regard i
- Veroli Zhimo There aren’t many words that sum up today’s economic growth paradigm in Nagaland better than ‘infrastructure.’ Policymakers have been pushing the consensus that infras
- Dr Asangba Tzudir One of the greatest challenges which Naga society is facing today is the maintenance of social order in contrast to social chaos or disorder. The challenge is to build a stable state
- Imlisanen Jamir Our planet, along with all of the life forms it sustains, is fragile, and we’ve learnt it the hard way this year. A virus is killing people. We’ve been forced to practice
- Officially, Nagaland is considered the ‘safest’ place for women given the low registration of crimes both under the Indian Penal Code and Special and Local Laws (SLL). Data in the a
- Witoubou Newmai Even as another day experiences another issue in our society, we are nudged by an article presented by journalist Uri Friedman in The Atlantic which reads that “the COVID-19 pandemic is
