End of the 40-20 formula?
To refresh, the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and the BJP on July 26 last year jointly announced that the seat-sharing arrangement between them with the 40-20 formula would continue.…
Electoral tremors
Although no political party in Nagaland has officially kick-started their election campaign, there are telltale signs that all of them are gearing up for the next election to the Nagaland…
Yearend reflections
The Coronavirus pandemic began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. After two years, the world seemed to have recovered. However, it was only today that WHO raised renewed worry about…
A letter to our readers
Dear subscribers and readers, the Mokokchung Times team would at the outset like to thank you all for supporting us till today. We have started this journey on January 21,…
Imminence of Presidentās Rule?
It will not be wrong to say that the latest political developments in Nagaland state are stranger than fiction. The Bharatiya Janata Party is tight lipped when it comes to…
The game must go on
Peter Drury is right. Messi will be sainted. And why not? Luis Lionel Andres Messi, to the millions of his fans around the world, is the greatest of all time…
Progress is not always progress
As Friedrich Nietzsche said, silence is worse because all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. By remaining silent, we are guaranteeing our own slow death. If we look around…
Hope for the future
Nagaland Minister of Rural Development has publicly stated that he supports the Eastern Nagaland Peopleās Organization (ENPO) in their demand for a separate Frontier Nagaland state personally and morally. In…
UCC: The Sword of Damocles?
It is indeed interesting to learn that our legislators talk about the contentious Uniform Civil Code in the public sphere. Two senior legislators have within this week itself spoken out…
Ghost villages
Rural-urban migration is the movement of people from the countryside to the city, or from the villages to the towns in our context. Rural to urban migration causes growth of…