Maybe it is the desire to sell books that makes Stephen Hawking claim the death of God and the death of Philosophy. (If you're in the UK, you can listen Hawking make this claim here.) M-theory, a variant of str
Wednesday, 5th November, 2025
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This week, South Sudan is again going to the polls, this time to vote in a referendum on secession from the North. The preliminary result should be known by 15th January, and will mark one of the final stages o
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For many people it is a surprise to note the ENPO’s move for statehood. The immediate reaction to this social upsurge maybe summed up as below:-1 From the formation of the state of Nagal
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Attendees at the 18th International AIDS conference held in Vienna in July 2010 felt a tremor of hope when Prof. Salim Abdool Karim received a standing ovation following the announcement that a vaginal gel cont
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In late October 2010, a large group of people living in and around Mae Sot, Tak province were closing in on a terrible 'milestone' of sorts: all of them – over 60 migrant children, women and men
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MEMORIES: Deng-Athoi Galuak in his apartment in Norcross, Georgia, with documents relating to his time in a refugee camp, the first time he has seen them, and Ajak Dau Akech with a hard copy of his refugee iden
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With some amusement I read reports last Friday about jailed Maoist Binayak Sen having moved a court in Chhattisgarh against the sentence of life imprisonment awarded to him last month. I say amusement because o
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Jared Loughner, the suspect in Saturday's shooting spree in Arizona which killed six people and critically wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was not working alone. True, the rampage apparently emerged f
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With the dramatic arrival of my baby boy on November 28, 2010, I have finally managed to join the prestigious club of fatherhood riding on an elated hope that this little angel would eventually make his daddy&#
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Although we may not have yet reached “the end of history,” globalisation has brought us closer to “the end of geography” as we have known it. The compression of time and space triggered
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Popular support in Israel for a land-for-peace deal collapsed years ago, but now the Palestinians are losing faith in a two-state future. For, they believe that no Israeli politician would ever have political c
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During the 1950s I grew up in a family who rooted for the success of African Americans in their just struggle for civil rights and full legal equality. Then in 1962 it was the terror of my own personal imminent
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The political leaders who are fighting for our cause will be morally responsible for our safety and welfare in particular. After decades of factional wars, our nation is now progressing to a new level of maturi
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The news of a Mumbai-based mining company extracting at least 10 times more bauxite ore than it is allowed to from a village in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra and causing the State a revenue loss of crores of rupees
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There was a time years ago when VVIPs and VIPs would go to Vellore, or New Delhi or Guwahati or Dibrugarh and even Mumbai for treatment of some ailment or the other because medical facilities in our State were
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Hope at last: Women drive in a pro-independence parade in Juba, the capital of southern Sudan, this week. Most of the four million registered voters are expected to choose separation. Photograph: Spencer Platt/
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A crisis triggered by conflicting political interests can be solved only through political intervention. This realisation has so far inhibited any knee-jerk reaction to the option suggested by the Justice B.N.
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A true measure of being democratic is not the cycles of elections – it is the dignity given to disagreement, to dissent. Why must we dignify dissent? There are the arguments that we hear everyday: so that
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The office of the District Statistical Officer, Dimapur, is constraint to react to the baseless allegations leveled against an official of the District Registrar of Births and Death under the DSO Dimapur establ
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I am allergic to checkgates as I have come across much harassment meted out to me while traveling from Dimapur to my home town in Ukhrul during my college days. Though we didn’t carry any arms or prohibit
