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Teachers’ Protest Is Noble: Their Demands Must Be Met
By Kyrsoibor Pyrtuh
The history of modern Education in the Khasi-Jaiῆtia and Garo Hills is about one hundred ninety years old only and it can be traced to the days when Alexander B Lish of the Serampore Mission had opened a School in Sohra…
Fighting Inflation Will Need Monetary, Fiscal and Administrative measures
By Ajit Ranade
There is a well-known debate among economic policy makers regarding a more efficient way of giving government subsidies. Should it be in kind or in cash? The proponents of the in cash method prefer a direct money transfer to…
The Silence of the Doomed
Editor,
A young lady, to be more specific, one of the dynamic faculty members of Martin Luther Christian University, gave a quote that really stunned me. It was a quote from the King James Bible, Proverbs Chapter 29 verse 18 which is so…
Justice must prevail
On Tuesday night a Bolero pick-up with an ML 04 registration took an intentional wrong turn from Raps Mansion towards the Secretariat instead of taking the diversion along the Accountant General’s office as is the rule. The driver of the…
‘Revenge’ Politics and the Neta-Police nexus
By Rajdeep Sardesai
“Converting our hard earned democracy into a police state is simply unthinkable and if the Assam police is thinking about the same, the same is perverse thinking..” Barpeta sessions court judge Judge Aparesh Chakrabarty…
AAP and tmc compete for space in East, North East States
By Ashis Biswas
In some Indian states, the two major regional parties the Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party, sworn as they are to battle against the ruling BJP -- find themselves unavoidably drawn into a bitter struggle to upstage…
One death too many!
Editor,
The other day Subhankar Pratim Deb was excited about celebrating the birthday of his only daughter. The day was filled with fun and happiness as friends and relatives came for the birthday party. By late evening, most guests had…
Taj Mahal as target
The democratic system today draws its central or moral sustenance from the judiciary – more so as the political leaderships are failing to look at and decide on matters from the perspective of merit. All of the judiciary might not…
The pinching iron-clad irony of our current state of affairs: An observation
By Ubahunlang D Tmar
Where do we stand now in the 50 years of our Statehood on the socio-political and economic development front? Does our trajectory of growth resemble any cold war era, ‘banana republic’ in South America or ‘tin-pot…
Seeking a cure for the plastic pandemic
By Ishan Chauhan
Large sections of the Indian subcontinent starting from Balochistan and Sindh in Pakistan all the way to Odisha and Bihar in eastern India are experiencing extreme heat. Such heat waves in India are expected to increase in…