EDITORIAL

  By Albert Thyrniang In the last ten days or so a lot has happened in relation to Ichamati. A complaint to the governor of Meghalaya; FIRs against the three complainants, NCPCR’s directive to prove alleged harassment of non-tribal women…

    By Sushil Kutty   The Maharashtra Government and the Mumbai Police will not have to work hard to compile the list of FIRs filed against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami. There are hundreds of FIRs lodged against him…

Editor, In continuation to my letter captioned, " Border disputes: different responses" (ST Oct 23, 2020) published by your esteemed paper wherein I had sought to draw attention to the contrasting responses adopted by the Central and…

  By Prabhat Patnaik   Wealth distribution data are notoriously difficult to interpret. This is because variations in stock prices affect wealth distribution, so that a stock market boom suddenly makes the rich appear much richer,…

Public trust is the essence of democracy. The public elect a set of leaders and place their trust on those leaders to deliver what has been promised in the election manifesto. The word public trust dates back to the origins of democracy…

                                               By Francis Suchiang National Highway 44 starts from the bridge at Nongthymmai (opposite Jingkieng Power House) to Umkiang. The bridge was built by the British probably in the 1920’s. It…

Editor, We are in the 21st century and if we still scrutinize people on the basis of race, caste, nationality, and ethnicity, it may incite social unrest as in the other disturbed nations of the world. Let the Government decide on the…

The season of festival, although restrained brings with it good news on a few fronts. One report is that the Centre has set aside Rs 50,000 crore for highly subsidized vaccination of its 1.34 billon people against the Covid-19 pandemic.…

Patricia Mukhim Someone had rightly said that politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening…

    By Sushil Kutty   The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena are no longer handshaking friends and won’t be unless the Shiv Sena returns to the earlier nuptial arrangement – BJP on top! The two have been at war since after…