Infocus

  • New cancer risk
    For years the World Health Organization (WHO) maintained that radiation from cell phones is generally safe. But on May 31, it changed its stand and announced that cell phones pose a possible cancer risk. A pane
  • The Fabulous Ecclestone Sisters
    Bernie Ecclestone with his daughters Tamara (left) and Petra (right) says he is proud of his daughters, and happy to buy their houses so they can get on the property ladder It's tough being an heiress. Pub
  • Renewing e-waste
    The e-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011, notified by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, have the potential to turn a growing problem into a development opportunity. With almost a year to go befo
  • Why is the Govt of Manipur afraid of the Tripartite Talk ?
    The spokesman of the Government of Manipur (GoM), Minister N. Biren has magnanimously stated that UNC(United Naga Council) is a civil organization of the state and for which the GoM will hear and address their
  • AIDS, women and the UN
    In the words of the African parable, when elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers. Then what will they have to survive on? Alice Welbourn reports on the plethora of men on the platform in New York...
  • Finders keepers, losers weepers
    Something unwelcoming becomes habitual and hobby of different age group boys and girls around our environment so as we are being accustomed to an assumption that ‘Loss and profit’ is the only exit f
  • Natural Cancer Cures Are Real
    Modern-day science is undeniably humanistic. Many real scientists, these days, reject the theory of evolution as an imaginative fiction that ignores the huge body of evidence supporting Intelligent Design. But
  • The five most dangerous countries for women
    TrustLaw, an organization that provides legal aid and information on women's rights, set out to determine which countries were the most dangerous for women. By polling more than 200 international gender experts
  • How China broke the West’s monopoly on modernization
    This week, Tsinghua University, China’s foremost institution of higher education, celebrates its centennial. Founded in 1911 in deep national humiliation, Tsinghua University was initially funded by the i
  • A response to Fire and Emergency Services, Kohima
    A clarification issued by the Fire & Emergency Services, Kohima (Nagaland Post, 21st June 2011, Page 1, ‘June 18 fire incident: Fire dptt. admits technical snag’) also doubled up as a rejoinder
  • The risks of leaving the Euro
    When the blueprint for the Euro was drawn up, leaving was not an option: there were no circumstances under which any member would ever want to leave and therefore no exit route. But the once unthinkable now loo
  • Predicting the monsoon
    How will the monsoon turn out? Not as well as previously thought appeared to be the answer when the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued its updated seasonal forecast on Tuesday. Nevertheless, the data
  • An Unsung Legacy
    The name ‘Theyiechüthie’ will not be familiar to most of the readers. In fact, you are most probably coming across this name for the first time in your life. Well, for your information, Theyiec
  • “HOW TO GIVE UP ALCOHOL ADDICTION”
    Alcohol has a devastating effect in the life of an alcoholic and also in the lives of family and friends. Chronic alcohol abuse can damage all vital organs in the body, it damages the liver, destroys brain cell
  • Top 10 countries for women: Global Gender Gap Index 2010
    1. IcelandIceland, which has closed 85 percent of its gender gap and topped the list last year as well, overtook Norway, Finland, and Sweden because of an increase in the number of women ministers, an almost co
  • Donate BLOOD, it TELLS FOR HISTORY
    Life is a voyage wrought with challenges and difficulties. And for those people in need of blood are the voyagers struggling with sorrow (blood) beckoning them to partake it as they sail through the ocean of li
  • M.F. Husain: Victim of Intolerance
    On 9th June 2011, M.F. Husain breathed his last in a London Hospital, and was later buried in the cemetery in London as per his wish that he should be buried at a place of his death. The most celebrated painter
  • Making the Facebook revolution work for Israelis and Palestinians
    A few months ago I was standing at the Qalandia checkpoint near Ramallah, waiting for an Israeli journalist from Israel’s Channel One Television who was scheduled to interview me about the Facebook revolu
  • North Eastern Council – Poised for Progress
    BackgrounderThe North Eastern Council is the nodal agency for the economic and social development of the North Eastern Region which consists of the eight States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya,
  • P U B L I C G R I E V A N C E C E L L
    No Electricity No Food Many times we talk about change/ development/peace of our state and the other advancing countries in the world in various fields. But today back at home here in Nagaland we have many
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