The recent escalation in the price of timber at Kohima and Dimapur to at all time high of Rs 500/ (five hundred) only pre cefty of class A timber has not generated any public protest or demand for justification
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Two years have passed since the Central government announced that a draft National Food Security Act (NFSA) would be posted on the Food Ministry's website “very soon.” After prolonged deliberations,
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700 million Indians have cell phones, but 638 million still don’t have access to proper sanitation. At this year’s South Asian Conference on Sanitation, social solutions to the problem were discusse
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Political wives are not as docile as they used to be. In the old days, no sooner had a male politician been caught with his trousers down than there came the routine announcement that his wife was standing by h
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Does eating red meat increase the risk of dying from heart disease or cancer? It’s a question that keeps coming up, fueled by research and high-profile campaigns by advocacy groups on both sides of the de
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The women who attended the first international conference of the Nobel Women's Initiative: Women Redefining Peace in the Middle East and Beyond agreed that “the root causes of armed violence are inequalit
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Herold Camping, President of the Family Radio Christian Network who wrote a self-published book in 1992 proclaimed that the END TIME would come on September 4, 1994 but when it (Rapture) failed to occur on the
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An essential lesson of the age is that governments acquire their legitimacy through votes of people and respect for human rights, and that this is the best guarantee of security. Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human-rig
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True to form, the Government of India has been caught on the back foot over the pricing of petroleum products. Earlier this year, it formally delinked petrol from the administered pricing mechanism while retain
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Recently, while visiting the United States, I experienced an incredible providence. Through a series of remarkable events, I found myself talking on the telephone with the daughter of one of the first wes
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Perhaps thousands of underage workers as young as 8, lured by the wages, leave school to work in coal mines under perilous conditions. The country officially upholds mining safety standards and forbids child la
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A Profile-Jagdamba Mall His Holiness Shri Jayendra Saraswati is the 69th Acharya of Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. He was initiated into Sayasashram on March 22, 1954 at the age of 19. F
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It is often said that the Americans and the French “love” the British royal family because they don't have to “suffer” it or pay for its extravagant lifestyle. “Ask us we have to b
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Whatever the intention behind them, the new rules framed last month under the Information Technology Act, 2000 are likely to have a chilling effect on the development of the Internet as a medium of communicatio
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Can you love tigers but hate forests? This is the question that troubled me as I visited the middle of India last fortnight. I was in Nagpur, where local politicians, conservationists and officials were discuss
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It was in the late summer of 1991. News began to circulate in our neighborhood that Methaneilie was going to give a two-night musical concert at the Kohima Village Council hall. (I think during those years this
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Barely 50 year old child in Naga Politics entered to into race with the eighty year old strong man of Naga Politics- When SC Jamir comes to the foray, it would be a straight question for the Nagas. Wither Jamir
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The Government of India has hinted that a solution acceptable to both sides maybe round the corner by the end of 2011. An honourable solution is expected according to NSCN (IM). The problem and the irony I see
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To ask a people burdened with systemic bribery to accept bribe-giving as legal is to demand they accept corruption and the existing structures of power and inequity it flows from. Let's get this right. The Chie
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INDIA’S first pilot project to be recognised under the UN’s mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) could be in the East Khasi Hills in Meghalaya.A watershed proje
