EDITORIAL

Editor, Apropos the news item published in The Shillong Times under the caption “Ichamati issue spills into city,” (ST Oct 23, 2020), I would like ask this pertinent question. Since when has submitting a representation or filing a…

When allegations of corruption become a daily affair and charges are traded over media, the public faces a fatigue which then turns to disinterest.  It is then that the public begin to normalise corruption as something that cannot be…

    By Dr. D.K. Giri   India ups the ante against China. Beijing is ostensibly rattled. Although reports of a trade deal with Taiwan have not been officially confirmed by Indian agency, Beijing has issued a veiled warning to New…

    By Nitya Chakraborty   With less than two weeks to go for the Presidential elections in USA scheduled on November 3, talks have started about what is going to be the impact of the coming to the White House of Joe Biden as…

Editor, The state government has recently given an outline of its expenses during the COVID pandemic amounting to Rs 400 crore ( I have deliberately made it Rs 400 and not Rs 399! For, a crore here or there makes no difference!). Going…

When the Prime Minister addresses the nation, big revelations are generally expected. But Narendra Modi’s address on Tuesday carried little more than a promise that the nation is all set to reach the vaccines against Covid-19 pandemic in…

  By Nantoo Banerjee   India’s current border dispute with China owes its origin in 1950 when China sent its troops to Tibet taking control of the remote mountainous region that declared independence in 1913. The Chinese military…

    By Lawrence Albright   Two esteemed medical and scientific journals have broken with almost two centuries of non-partisanship and weighed in on the upcoming Presidential elections in the United States.   Scientific American…

Editor, After the controversial Director of NEIGRIHMS was repatriated to his parent department, the Institute is left with a spare-tyre Director, the Head of Department, Anesthesiology. For NEIGRIHMS this is a case of, “from the frying…

The allegations by an elected representative that the MDA Government is losing Rs 1200-1500 crore of revenue on account of the illegal extraction and transportation of coal should be taken seriously. This amount is not small change for a…