Infocus

  • Tap into Indigenous Knowledge to Preserve our Forests
    Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue Inter Press Service A few years ago, I found myself in the Baka indigenous sacred forest in Assok, in Cameroon in the course of my work in supporting them to preserve their forest aga
  • Believing Our Politicians..!
    As I see people applauding, believing wholeheartedly in what our present politicians promise I remembered a joke my late mother had sent me, called 'The Vote for Heaven or Hell!'A powerful senator dies after a
  • Hazardous Kohima Science College Jotsoma road
    Jonas Yanthan  The road from Minister’s Hill junction traversing towards Kohima Science College, Jotsoma demands Government’s attention for urgent rectification of its high volatility to acc
  • Hope and Despair: Journalist Kathy Gannon on 35 years in Afghanistan
    Kathy Gannon The Associated Press The Afghan policeman opened fire on us with his AK-47, emptying 26 bullets into the back of the car. Seven slammed into me, and at least as many into my colleague, Associat
  • Falling in the Bathroom..!
    I still remember that day, I slipped and fell in the bathroom. My feet shot into the air and I fell with a thud on my back. I gingerly opened eyes and found that except for a slightly bruised elbow, I was none
  • Inventing the Future: Is the new age Green Revolution of India here?
    Gene-edited crops powered by CRISPR to address our food security problemsMaanal Gauri, Nainika Gupta, Nandan Mandal, Navjot Kaur, Samhitha Samishetty, Shivank Joshi, and Suhani ShrivastavaDid you know that
  • Prevention of Zoonotic diseases in livestock and in your family
    Dr Elizabeth Yhome Veterinary Surgeon, Veterinary Hospital Kohima World Zoonosis Day is observed every year on 6th July to create awareness on the growing threat of zoonotic diseases and ways to prevent the
  • It’s Only a Pimple..!
    As a teenager, I quite often faced pimples, and sometimes a single pimple sprouting out of my face could wreck my confidence, my evening and even make me lose a date! I remember an ad that used to come out, “
  • Waiting for Godot: Research as Finding Life’s Search
    Dr Brainerd Prince The act of searching is not new to humans, even if we have come a long way from our ancestors who literally moved from one place to another searching and hunting for food and shelter.
  • The world is melting down and the cause is corruption- G20 needs to take action
    Blair Glencorse and Sanjeeta Pant Inter Press Service  The G20 is meeting again next week in Indonesia for the second time this year- at a moment when the world is facing the most difficult economic, p
  • Two Fried Eggs and Not Satisfied..!
    Was enjoying my coffee on my terrace garden this morning, watching friendly squirrels and birds pecking at pieces of bread I’d thrown for them, then slowly began to feel restless, even as I was enjoying the m
  • CSR conclave 2022- Opportunity for Nagaland
    P  Achumse Yingbithongru Much anticipated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)& investment conclave 2022 to be held in the first week of July has generated much déjà vu and excitement
  • Embracing the Future: NBCC Youth Sunday
    N Suhuto Chishi Youth Secretary, NBCC Dear Baptist Youth Leaders and Young People of Nagaland! Greetings from the Office of NBCC Youth Department (NBCCYD). As different churches under NBCC observes  NB
  • Murder It Was..!
    She stood, a small figure in front of the school notice board. With anxious eyes she searched for her number. It wasn't there.The girls around her jostled and pushed. There were screams of delight and shrieks o
  • Tale of 2 summits: ‘America’s back’ to America’s backsliding
    Zeke Miller The Associated Press One year ago, Joe Biden strode into his first Group of Seven summit as president and confidently told the closest U.S. allies that “America is Back.” Now, many o
  • ‘We were on the good side, the honor side’
    A new leader in the Philippines, and a family’s old wounds Philip Marcelo The Associated Press He was the uncle I never met. But in my family’s origin story, Emmanuel “Manny” Yap
  • The Antithesis of Christianity and Politics in Nagaland
    Paul N Rengma Former General Secretary, NSU Bangalore Has Christianity failed the Nagas? According to the 2011 census, 87.93% of the Nagas are Christians in Nagaland. Baptist is a major denomination in Naga
  • In Bed With A Mosquito..!
    “If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito.”Quite often I see people who don’t want to be noticed. It’s not that they are not noticed, it’s
  • Defections and all that Money..!
    How much money did it take for so many MLAs to cross the floor, betray their leader, betray their voters, forget their ideology and run to the other end of the country?  I wonder what people do with so muc
  • Indigenous communities want stake in new deal to protect nature
    Busani Bafana Inter Press Service In early June 2022, more than 30 people from the Maasai community in the Loliondo division in Tanzania’s northern Ngorongoro District were reportedly injured, and one
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