EDITORIAL

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…