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  • Fuel price rise - Government lacking ideas
    •-As a Chemical Engineer and Chemical Business Consultant, I am convinced that the Government of India should be blamed for the present price hike of diesel, cooking gas  and kerosene, for the follow
  • Collection of illegal taxes in check gates
    As stated in the recent local dailies, there are standing government policies dated June 22, 2009 and December 8, 2009 against collection of taxes (entry fees) in the police check gates.  Let me try to fil
  • Eliminating the practice of torture
    Due to the enormous changes in the popular consciousness of people throughout the Asian countries there is an increased demand for the elimination of the practice of torture. In the recent decades due to change
  • Atsa: Her Story
    For so many years, she lived in an old shabby house made of rugged wood and rusty tin sheets (perhaps some of the few remnants of the Second World War British supplies). But, she loved her humble abode so dearl
  • Democracy still rules
    Francis Fukuyama has just published a new book, “The Origins of Political Order,” which looks at the development of political institutions from ancient China to the French Revolution. He spoke wit
  • A one Dimensional Naga Society
    In this present state where society seems to have gone beyong being merely modern, it is quite ironic that theories of the past seem to settle so well without us ever noticing it. Being one of the thousands on
  • Think health - not drugs
    It was on Mother’s day this year a young woman prayed earnestly to God to change her husband’s behaviour. She told God that her husband is drinking too much and there is no peace in the family and q
  • Mission Calling
    HOLY SPIRIT REVEALS JESUS CHRIST THE SAVIOR TO MENComposed on 17th September 1997, Hong KongHoly Spirit came as Agent of God, the AlmightyFrom the country of immortality and HolinessTo earth the country of mort
  • No harm in trying out geo-engineering
    One option to fight global warming is geo-engineering. We should do the research on geo-engineering now: What works, what doesn't; what are the side-effects? We don’t have the answers. So let’s do i
  • China’s water war with India
    Sometimes news found in the mainstream Indian media can be flabbergasting. Take the case of the purported ‘diversion’ of the Yarlung Tsangpo. A ‘serious’ national newspaper spoke of the
  • Fuel Price Hike
    It is easy to guess why the central government waited so long before increasing the retail price of diesel, LPG, and kerosene. These petroleum products are far more politically sensitive than petrol, the price
  • The nationalists have won — Europe's dream is over
    To hear such a bold assertion from one of the two men was striking. But to hear it coming from the other was the sign of a political earthquake. Last month (May), during a rip-roaring lecture at the Hay Festiva
  • Green Tribunal, eh?
    July 4, 2011 will witness the first hearing of the newly constituted National Green Tribunal (“the NGT”) after more than a year in the waiting and amidst deep scepticism. A Bill approving the settin
  • Lessons from Japan quake
    The 9 magnitude Tohoku-Oki earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, and triggered the deadly tsunami, was more powerful than expected. The magnitude of quakes in this region has been around 7-8 in recent
  • New cancer risk
    For years the World Health Organization (WHO) maintained that radiation from cell phones is generally safe. But on May 31, it changed its stand and announced that cell phones pose a possible cancer risk. A pane
  • The Fabulous Ecclestone Sisters
    Bernie Ecclestone with his daughters Tamara (left) and Petra (right) says he is proud of his daughters, and happy to buy their houses so they can get on the property ladder It's tough being an heiress. Pub
  • Renewing e-waste
    The e-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011, notified by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, have the potential to turn a growing problem into a development opportunity. With almost a year to go befo
  • Why is the Govt of Manipur afraid of the Tripartite Talk ?
    The spokesman of the Government of Manipur (GoM), Minister N. Biren has magnanimously stated that UNC(United Naga Council) is a civil organization of the state and for which the GoM will hear and address their
  • AIDS, women and the UN
    In the words of the African parable, when elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers. Then what will they have to survive on? Alice Welbourn reports on the plethora of men on the platform in New York...
  • Finders keepers, losers weepers
    Something unwelcoming becomes habitual and hobby of different age group boys and girls around our environment so as we are being accustomed to an assumption that ‘Loss and profit’ is the only exit f
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