Infocus

  • Libya puts China in world stage spotlight
    Launcelot Gobbo told his elderly father in a poignant moment in William Shakespeare's play Merchant of Venice, "Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long." But the tragedy of life is often t
  • Climate Change highlights need for Women to take Greater Role in Forest Management, say experts
    Protesters walk in a Women's Day demonstration in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, March 6. Hundreds of people marched through the capital's downtown demanding more rights for women. (AP Photo) Women are the main u
  • ‘Men also need to be liberated from patriarchy’
    Efforts to tackle gender-based violence against women in India have concentrated on empowering women to assert themselves and prevent violence. Men have been insulated from the process of transformation, says H
  • Obama’s Choice: To Intervene or Not in Libya
    WASHINGTON — For President Obama, who told Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi last week that it was time to quit, the bloodshed and terror in Libya have posed a dilemma that sooner or later confronts every modern Am
  • Lessons in life, love & fear from a revolution
    We live in history all the time, of course, but most of us have never seen history like this.It already feels like many months since a young Tunisian graduate who couldn't get a job, or scrape a living, or even
  • Traffic Jam in Kohima and the inconsiderate’ policy of the state govt
    If we are to believe that ‘for every action there is equal and opposite reaction’, then ENPO’s demand for a separate state in Nagaland and United Naga Council demand for an ‘alternative
  • Social Media and Protests
    Egypt’s Day of Rage unfolded yesterday afternoon, the news of gathering crowds and images of protesters heading for Tahrir square shared over Twitter by activists and people in general in a fascinating, b
  • Patriotism and Hypocrisy
    I am not a patriot. It was my answer to a prominent political personality of his questions. He asked me the Indian soldiers are killing innocent people in Indo Bangla Border, Bangladesh is failing to deal with
  • The lion wants his juice back
    You're Muammar Gaddafi, and you're sitting in your Bab al-Azizia bunker sipping green tea and surveying the odds of staying in power. Let's see. You control some neighborhoods in Tripoli; some cities in the far
  • Protect Assange, don’t abuse him
    Forty years ago, a book entitled The Greening of America caused a sensation. On the cover were these words: "There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate wit
  • US-Pak relation on the brink for Raymond Davis
    Fury at Washington ran deep as Islamic Pakistan refused to give up owing to public pressure, the plea for release of Raymond Davis, an American on a special secret mission from the CIA who shot dead two Pakista
  • A Tribute to Lt. Dr. Hekha
    Echoing back the (positive) meaning of those John Milton’s words, ‘Its better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven’, were just out from your eyes as when you saw that something is not so w
  • Entering the Restricted Area
    The enemies which confronts us are not the evil forces alone but we become our own enemy when we pay our tithes and  offerings to the world, rather than to God. In the beginning God warned Adam and Eve not
  • Ken Loach: 'It's a privilege to be able to make films'
    There’s a sombre scene early in Ken Loach’s new drama, ‘Route Irish’. It’s the funeral of Frankie, an ex-soldier who died while working as a private contractor in Iraq. His sharp-s
  • SOVEREIGNTY: A view of one Naga
    ‘Sovereignty’ is a word for which thousands of Nagas have given their lives willingly free. It is a word for which many a Naga have their lifeless bones scattered in far away places unknown, uncared
  • Media ownership: interesting indicators
    March 1 is the time of year when newspapers declare their shareholding, so attention turns briefly to the issue of media ownership. On March 1 Delhi newspapers printed the Form IV with mandatory disclosure on o
  • Perils of Mining
    In May 2001, twenty-four representatives of communities and groups affected by mining - from Asia-Pacific, Africa, India, South and North America - met in London to assess the impacts of mining on the lives of
  • ‘Mithun The Pride Of Nagaland’
    Mithun the pride of Nagaland is a highly traditional prize unique animal, it is found in a few North Eastern states and at present there are four defined strains in India namely Arunachal, Nagaland, Manipur and
  • 'Peace & Justice Movement Should Oppose US-Led Intervention in Libya'
    Forces aligned with Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi have launched new assaults to regain control of several towns captured in a popular uprising over the past two weeks. Meanwhile, two U.S. warships have mov
  • The History of Fencing Sport
    The history of fencing parallels the evolution of civilisation, back from the days of ancient Egypt and Rome, to the barbaric Dark Ages, to the fast and elegant Renaissance, up to the modern, increasingly popul
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