In 1977, a 23-year-old cook at a hospital in Somalia who caught smallpox and survived became the last naturally occurring case of the disease. Three years later, in May 1980, the World Health Assembly, the supr
“Whenever I try to sleep, I see scary creatures. I am so scared I cannot sleep. I am scared even to go to sleep” narrates a girl who was tormented with nightmares after she was gang raped. She doesn
From a distance, they seem like an innocuous bunch of women waiting by the hillside shade for a bus. Across the narrow road, a group of men are clustered in small groups. Only the iron ore laden orange tipper t
This philosophy was a key factor in the development of a stream of outstanding Dutch players, quite out of proportion to the nation's populationThere we were running away with the idea that Lionel Messi belonge
What right India has to hang on Indo-Naga political issue and let Naga letting blood run red in the country for last 60 years? A report in “Statement paper Calcutta on 20th April 1956” A total of Rs
The emergence of a privacy law in the last dozen years, which has been a growing source of tension between the courts and Parliament, has now encountered an insuperable barrier: the parallel growth of social me
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Law and scientific expertise have an old connect. Policy and legal arguments have historically relied on the word of science to make or break a case, be it in courts or in decision-making corridors. When it com
They are some of the most isolated people on earth, a small civilisation which has spent its entire history cut off from the rest of the world by thousands of miles of wilderness, learning to eke an existence f
Freedom is important, so is responsibility. In countries like India, the media have a responsibility to fight backward ideas such as casteism and communalism, and help the people fight poverty and other social
World music is perhaps the broadest and most diverse categories among all musical genres. However, world music often features the use of distinctive ethnic styles, scales, instruments, and musical inflections,
Congress debacles in Nagaland seem to have caught in the spider’s web. Consequent to introspection and re-introspection to label the culprits behind the scene (read defeat in by-polls), state PCC’s
In 1959, Robert Allen Zimmerman, an introverted teenager with an acoustic guitar and a harmonica, renamed himself Bob Dylan after the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Although he would reveal much later that Arthur Rim
It was called the worst disaster in modern history. A UN spokesman described "historic" devastation "like no other" ever faced by the organisation. News reports heralded scenes of Biblical d
On 4th of March 2009, when it was touching noon,(around 11:50 am), Mohd Azad Khan was reading a newspaper in the courtyard of his house along with one of his neighbouring friends, in Phoubakachao Makha Leikai Y
It is trendy to talk of road maps. However, roads maps by themselves cannot deliver, they need delivery vehicles. To operate delivery vehicles a core competency is needed so is the skill to prevent road jams. U
Today in commemoration with the World Environment Day, I, not as an environmentalist, but as a concerned citizen, would like to share about the impact of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO), how they can creat
God always knows best. He’s the Creator after all. Shouldn’t He know how His creation works and what will cause harm? When the World Health Organization informed the world that hybrid plant br
In April this year the media went into a loud and vulgar rapture as Anna Hazare continued his four-day fast against corruption at Jantar Mantar in the capital. Hyperventilating newscasters repeatedly declared t