NEW YORK, August 21 (Reuters Health): Eating more green leafy vegetables can significantly cut the risk of developing diabetes, scientists said on Friday. British researchers ...

Budding Journos interact with Ben McGrath

Few magazines have a history as venerable or a reputation as celebrated as The New Yorker, so a group of students at the Indian Institute ...

A Social Impasse: Post Traditional Dilemma?

Tikhir Nagas, dressed in traditional attire, dance in the village grounds during the silver anniversary celebrations of the Tikhir Students Union in Anatongre village, about ...

Half of India’s population lives below the poverty line

According to a new Oxford University study, 55 percent of India’s population of 1.1 billion, or 645 million people, are living in poverty. Using a ...

The face that doctors built

Gun accident victim shows off world's first full facial transplant...

Flip-flops have side-effects too!

If you thought flip-flops would not hurt as stilettos do, think again. Recent reports highlight that wearing flip-flops is linked to various foot and leg ...

A brief history of liquour prohibition movement in Nagaland

I. MISSIONARY PERIODFrom the very beginning the Baptist Church had resolved to fight out the liquor and its evils. The American Missionary Conference adopted a ...

Working Mums Beware!

Home sweet home: The children of mothers who don’t work have the most nutritious diets and enjoy more exercise.Children of working mothers tend to have ...

The Tamil diaspora: Solidarities & Realities

The Tamils abroad mobilising in response to events in Sri Lanka need to face difficult truths about the political narratives and forces that have contributed ...

The Rhetoric of ‘Peace’

A Palestinian boy argues with an Israeli border police officer as he tries to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during a protest in Jerusalem’s Old ...

Stunted Development

During the last seven years, the US and the international donor community have spent some USD 15 to 31 billion on rebuilding, development and democratisation ...

Sri Lanka’s Displaced: The Political Vice

The desperate plight of Tamil civilians in northern Sri Lanka is the responsibility of the Colombo government and Tamil Tiger guerrillas alikeAfter Sri Lankan army ...

Michelle Obama Finds Her Role on the World Stage

Sarah Brown, seated center, the wife of Britain's Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and US first lady Michelle Obama, center standing, are pictured with some of ...

Workers clean up in a wood yard at a coal mine in Gujiao, in China’s northern Shanxi province, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009. China is confident it can meet its growth target of 8 percent this year though “downward pressure” from the global economic crisis is gr

A planet at the brink?

The global economic meltdown has already caused bank failures, bankruptcies, plant closings, and foreclosures and will, in the coming year, leave many tens of millions ...