SPECIAL ARTICLE

By Gregory F Shullai Finally someone, Jairam Ramesh Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) Chairman Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment Forests, and Climate Change, has followed up on the ignoble dubbing…

By G N Bajpai The nation is going through a tough debate on the merits of a new pension scheme versus the old scheme that offered defined benefits to retirees. There is much pull for reservation and quotas for newer groups based on…

Curiously, a Surat court has thought it fit to jail top Congress figure Rahul Gandhi over a statement he made at the height of the 2019 general election campaign in Kolar, Karnataka. The magistrate court has however avoided creating a…

By Patricia Mukhim On March 21, Santa Mary Shylla of the coal-rich Sutnga -Saipung Constituency spoke on behalf of the people who have been reduced to poverty after the ban on coal mining. We don’t expect anything else from someone whose…

By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is a late bloomer. That said, he has been a Member of Parliament several times over and, therefore, cannot be reduced to a Johnny-come-lately. And after Amethi, he wasn’t a stranger to the…

The entire fracas that took place in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly over the Governor’s decision to give his remarks in Hindi is indicative of the fact that regionalism, in this case exemplified by Khasi sub-nationalism, is not going…

March 22 is observed as World Water Day but like every other day set aside to remind people of the importance of one issue or other, this day too passed by uneventfully except for a function for school/college students at the Soso Tham…

By Albert Thyrniang Last Monday during the inaugural address of the governor, Phagu Chauhan agitated Ardent Miller Basaiawmoit and leader of the Voice of the People’ Party (VPP) led his MLAs to walk out of the Assembly in protest against…

By Robert Clements With attacks on poor Rahul worsening by the day, in my very vivid imagination I see the Congress think tank putting on their thinking caps and pondering the best solution to the nightmare brought about by their leader…

By Roshmi Goswami We at North East Network (NEN) were perhaps among the few, maybe  first,  in Shillong to organise celebrations around March 8. Back in that progressive era there were  enough reasons to celebrate and truly honourable…