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Ironic that Earth Day Celebration Brought to the Fore Manipur’s Toxic Hill-Valley Divide, but is this Divide Primal or Recent
Nongmaijing incident Another world environment day, June 5, just passed by. Unfortunately, there were some unsavoury incidents during a tree plantation drive on the day

While Poppy Cultivation Declines in Myanmar, It Has Significantly Increased in Manipur Over the Last 15 Years, Says TNI Report
It is well known that by the 1980s, Burma now Myanmar had become the world’s largest opium-cultivating country. Since the late 1990s, however, Myanmar has

The right to be neutral: It is Legitimate for the Non-Aligned to Ask, Why is NATO Still Around
By Ranabir Samaddar, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group in Calcutta Examining military and political alliances from the perspective of the global South leads to some

Celebrating World Environment Day To Make Our Only One Earth A Green And Living Planet
Millions of people around the globe celebrated the World Environment Day 2022 planting millions of trees, cleaning trash and actions to make the earth a

In the new cold war China is not Russia
By Jabin T. Jacob, Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi With the decline of Russia, eyes are turning to China and a new cold war

Scheme for Poppy Cultivation Alternative Launched; CM Warns Against Villages Name Changes; LFS Students Protest Bomb Attack
Under War on Drugs 2.0 a new scheme called ‘Cultivation of Horticulture Crops as an Alternative to Poppy Cultivation in Hill Areas’ was launched at

Should India be Concerned about the AUKUS Alliance? Has it Diminished QUAD’s Significance?
Since the formation of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States trilateral security alliance (AUKUS). The excitement around referring to the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue

If Sovereignty is no Longer in the Agenda of a Settlement, it is a Difficult Road Ahead for the NSCN(IM)
It has become almost a cyclic phenomenon. Ever since the signing of the what has since come to be known as the “Framework Agreement” on

Present Responses of CSOs and Political Parties in Manipur to Manipur-Myanmar Boundary Dispute Might Not Be Able to Change Government’s Stand on the Matter
Once again, the boundary dispute along Manipur-Myanmar sector of Indo-Myanmar Boundary has reappeared in media and public domain. Despite many protests by the civil society