Infocus

  • Women empowerment vis-à-vis Government policies, Customary Laws, Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
    Kaimangchoba Chang Assistant Prof, Department of English Modern College Empowerment can mean so many things. As defined by Oxford dictionary, empowerment is the process of gaining freedom and power. Women
  • BIODIVERSITY: Indigenous Peoples, the Last Custodians
    Baher Kamal Inter Press Service Every now and then, experts remind that the Indigenous Peoples are the best (and last?) custodians of the essential web of life: biodiversity. There are more than 370 mill
  • Inventing the Future: The Privacy Crisis
    Maanal Gauri, Abhigyan Mehrotra, Prachi Parakh, Vaishnavi Rathi, Tanya Sravan Plaksha UniversityMark Zuckerburg bought an island to protect his privacy. What are you doing to protect yours?As we all know,
  • Why Me..!
    “Why me?” I cried out, looking up to the sky.It happened many years ago when my wife and I had driven down to the sea side with a group of friends for a holiday. One morning we decided we would go down to t
  • Windows into Heaven: From Idols through Icons to the Transcendent One
    Dr Brainerd Prince Idol worship, an important religious practice that has been at the heart of distinguishing one person from another, one community from another and one religion from another, particularly i
  • Rohingiya crisis in Bangladesh: A threat to India
    Satya Raj Hazarika, IPS Deputy Inspector General of Police,  (Central Range), Assam, Diphu With the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 across a landmass of 148,460 2km, Chittagong extends like a boot in t
  • Not Just Mom..!
    Maybe it's my late mother, whose birthday falls today on the 2nd of May, who's telling me, "Bob, write about mothers today!" And I will: A few years ago I attended a very interesting seminar o
  • Election introspection
    Tali Longkumer The next election in our State, if normally held, is at the distance but then ambition and aspiration could push the matter much ahead of the actual election. Many aspirants are already embroi
  • The Poll Strategist..!
    “Hi!” “Hi! Why are you waiting outside? I thought our meeting to lay out my strategy for your party to win elections was taking place inside?”“Yes, it is, but I thought it would be better if we c
  • They’ve Not Left You..!
    This morning the first piece of news was from a classmate telling me, “He’s gone Bob!”“Who?” I asked.“My brother!” she said, “I’m now on a plane, on the way to attend his funeral!”How terrib
  • Halfway between the forest and the heavens
    Beni Sumer Yanthan (YanbeniYanthan) Centre for Naga Tribal Language Studies,Nagaland University Easterine Kire is a very highly regarded writer of our generation, and in her novel, Journey of the Stone, pub
  • Don't Be A Parrot..!
    Let’s stop being parrots!Years ago, I had a class master who was very fond of dictating notes. That was okay by me because it was a lot better than listening to his otherwise very boring lectures. But what go
  • Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ push for Twitter: Repeating history?
    Barbara Ortutay and Amanda Seitz The Associated Press Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is spending $44 billion to acquire Twitter with the stated aim of turning it into a haven for “free spee
  • EXPLAINER: What’s next now that Twitter agreed to Musk bid?
    Alex Veiga and Michael Liedtke The Associated Press Twitter’s acceptance of Elon Musk’s roughly $44 billion takeover bid brings the billionaire Tesla CEO one step closer to owning the social med
  • Fuel Adulteration
    Z Lohe Kudos to RPP for exposing the racket of fuel adulteration for the second time within 7 years period. The local papers splashed the story of the detection of the continuous business of adulteration of
  • Set Your Own Pace..!
    ‘He looks so peaceful!’ is often what we hear when we go to pay our past respects at a funeral! Quite often after hearing those words, I wonder what he or she looked like when they were alive: Harried, worr
  • COVID shots still work but researchers hunt new improvements
    Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press  COVID-19 vaccinations are at a critical juncture as companies test whether new approaches like combination shots or nasal drops can keep up with a mutating corona
  • Cricket, Biden and Ukraine..!
    This could happen soon when cricket’s T 20 World Cup begins!“Get me the Pakistan prime minister, I want to speak to him!” shouts Biden.“I can’t get him Mr President!” says his Secretary of State.“
  • Red Dawn: when war imitates art
    Alfio Leotta  The Conversation  When images from Ukraine of abandoned Russian tanks tagged with the word “Wolverines” circulated in early April, movie buffs got it right away: Ukrainia
  • Clean Yourself, then the Floor..!
    The puzzled chairman entered the precincts of his company, and stared at the peons, clerks, stenographers and other employees, huddled together outside his MD’s office. He wasn’t too startled as he heard th
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