A week ago, I witnessed an incident that left an awful taste in my mouth. I was at a petrol pump near the city tower. While I was waiting in my car, I saw a man chasing after this younger guy, a non-local
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Sonia Gandhi’s leadership of the Congress is facing two major problems, one or both of which may be insurmountable. Manmohan Singh has proved a non-asset in securing the Congress moral and political high-
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After 42 years of hesitation and uncertainty, an institutional mechanism to deal with the all-pervasive incidence of corruption in India is in sight. What apparently moved the state machinery was the agitation
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In 2000 when every member of the United Nations agreed to focus on eight areas of universal concern, such as poverty and hunger, healthcare, primary education and status of women, there was enthusiasm that deve
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As we've seen with France's burqa ban that went into effect this week, global religious tolerance – especially in Europe – is under threat. Growing Islamophobia threatens to undermine hard-fought fr
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Pain, sickness, accidents, death, and natural calamities are a part of daily life and they raise questions that cause people a great deal of personal anguish. The existence of suffering is an undeniable reality
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While penning down few thoughts on this subject matter I am inclined to cite a famous quotation:People with extraordinary minds, talk about ideas.People with average minds, talk about events.People with simple
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A NSW tribal leader convening an Aboriginal summit in Canberra says it will raise funds to challenge Australia’s legitimacy in the International Court of Justice.“This is Australia’s greatest
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It is now obvious that Nato's purported mission, under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, to protect civilians in Libya is expanding into a flagrantly illegal attempt at regime change. With fierce
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A police operation in the jungles of Timapuram (Chhattisgarh) lasts for six days affecting three villages and leaving an estimated 300 burnt homes, and killings and rape in its wake. A whole week after it ends,
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The international community must offer the Israelis and Palestinians a set of principles to reach a compromise. India can and should take the lead in promoting such an approach. The one country which shou
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Do not hunt animals, birds and all creatures to save our environment! Drawing by Jevito, Class 6,Great Commission Kids Academy, Dimapur _______________________________Creation and DestructionGod created ou
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A few days back I visited a local tribal church in Nagaland –which was packed to full house to listen to a popular speaker of international repute. He started off his Sunday morning message warning the ch
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From Twitter to WikiLeaks, we must balance openness and safety The same Internet that has empowered freedom-starved people across the Middle East to unseat despots is the same one that enabled Julian Assange, w
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For the world's ruling classes, primed for the G20 summit last week, the seemingly colorless niceties of monetary policy became the topmost theme of debate. And while the villains of the political class charact
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It was fashionable to be patriotic during the Kargil war and now it is fashionable to be fighters against corruption, thanks to Anna Hazare.Within days of the fast of the veteran Gandhian’s understandable
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A Regional Women Leaders' Convention is being held on 24-25 March 2011, in Mau, UP, as part of the Empowering Rural Women (ERW) programme, which has been operating in 253 Gram Panchayats (village councils) of 1
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Obsessed with Pakistan, Manmohan Singh failed to promote India's larger interests in the neighbourhood during the Cricket World Cup tournament. India’s neighbours like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, B
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PRAYER for the World!Lord, help us to keep the worldAs green and as beautiful as you created it!By Tsunolam, Class 9A, Pilgrim School, Dimapur
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The inclusion of ‘civil society' representatives in the drafting committee of the Lok Pal Bill raises several discomfiting questions. Where are we headed as a nation?Since RTI campaigner Arvind Kejriwal w
