Interesting Numbers
The Nagaland Board of School Education has just declared the results of the HSLC and HSSLC examinations 2022 and, while we congratulate the successful candidates, the numbers reveal some interesting…
The Civil Services Examination
The news of two candidates from Nagaland coming out in flying colours after cracking the UPSC Civil Service Exams 2021 makes one’s heart swell with pride. Nagaland has been faring…
Promoting rural museums
Last fortnight, coinciding with the International Museum Day, this newspaper carried a compilation of rural museums in Mokokchung where we managed to highlight 11 of them. There are probably more…
The Right to Information Act 2005
Reports of the Chief Information Commissioner of Nagaland state, I. Meyionen Jamir, meeting the Chief Information Commissioner, Central Information Commission, YK Sinha in New Delhi on May 27 has come…
Political Clientelism
It goes without saying that political clientelism slows economic development, vitiates democracy, and allows politicians to hold onto power longer than they otherwise would. Political clientelism is often defined as…
Corruption is Punishment
In Nagaland, everybody talks about corruption. Yet, not everybody wants to expose corruption. Not many people have the courage to fight corruption. Even when blatant acts of corruption are exposed,…
Monsoon fury
The monsoon preparedness review meeting that was held in Kohima on May 23 was timely and it is hoped that the members and agencies present must have deliberated in detail…
Drug menace
Police in Mokokchung have been making arrests of drug peddlers regularly, the most recent being two arrests made in the last week. Two of the most common contraband drugs, as…
Get the basics right
The need for economic development is so deeply sensed, so much so that even a faint mention of it attracts attention of the masses. Unfortunately, most of us do not…
Progress and Development
Words like ‘progress’ and ‘development’ have become clichéd. However, these two words need to be revisited time and again and their meanings reinterpreted as demanded by the changing times and…