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  • Adapt or Perish
    What comes to your mind when one says the word ‘Survival of the Fittest’? “Survival of the Fittest” is actually a phrase that originated in the evolutionary theory as an alternative way
  • ‘Trinamool is an anarchy that works’
    The Trinamool Congress "is an anarchy with an autocrat" at the helm but it's an "anarchy which works", says rebel MP Kabir Suman, describing a party wobbling in its efforts to create ripples
  • The World Is To Be Built Up On The Foundation Of Relationship With The Creator
    The  Creator  created  man  and  woman  but  disappeared  from  them. Communication  between  the  Creator  and  the  creatures  i
  • Fukushima: We Must Not Forget!
    “Forgetting Fukushima makes it more likely that such a nuclear disaster could happen elsewhere,” said Mrs Tatsuko Okawara, one of the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Fukushima accident that
  • India's gaping leadership vacuum
    A major reason why the forthcoming general elections may not usher in political stability is the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of today's leaders. As a result, governance is likely to remain mired in scams,
  • Our Rights as Consumers ...
     Moatemsu M. Com., M. Phil.,Department of Business AdministrationSt. Joseph’s College, Jakhama, Nagaland. All of us are consumers. We buy commodities for our consumption and also for our daily living
  • Review: Uneasy first steps with Google Glass
    Barbara OrtutayAP Technology WriterShaped like a lopsided headband, Google Glass is an unassuming piece of technology when you're holding it in your hands. You feel as if you can almost break it, testing its fl
  • Pope Francis saved many in dirty wars
    Pedestrians walk past a mural of Pope Francis painted on the exterior of a hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. From his gestures to his simple sound bites to his emphasis that prie
  • Goa's unsung fried fish safari?
    If you ever want to eat the best fried fish in Goa, you gotta do one thing for sure: Head inland away from the sea, away from the fancy beach-belt diners and those beach shacks offering hyped, assembly-line foo
  • Battle Royal 2014: IS BJP-led NDA ON THE COMEBACK TRAIL?
    The assembly election results in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in Dec 2013, electrified the BJP cadres and delivered the much-needed morale booster to the BJP leadership. At the moment, BJP
  • Women in Politics Map 2014
    Women could achieve equal representation with men in the world's parliaments in less than 20 years if the current rate of progress is maintained, but they've stalled in getting the top jobs of president or prim
  • Rohingya dying from lack of health care
    In this January 17, 2014 photo, ailing Noor Jahan, right, sits with her husband Mohamad Frukan, left, and children while she suffers in pain in their living room at The' Chaung village in north of Sittwe, Rakhi
  • Israeli airport security measures questioned
    Jack Angelides was about to board a flight out of Israel's international airport when he was given a curious choice that baffles him to this day. Traveling with a laptop and a stack of printed reading material,
  • Remove cumbersome regulations to limit bureaucratic corruption
    We, as citizens of India, need to understand and appreciate that two forms of corruption pervades our public discourse -- public and private corruption. The discourse on corruption is itself getting shriller, m
  • Coal crunch gives impetus to India's solar switch
    For six years in a row, India's monopoly coal producer has missed its production targets, leading to chronic electricity shortages and sending power producers scrambling for pricier imports. But what looks like
  • Attitude: It Matters
    Attitude as defined by psychologist as, “a mental state. It is a point of view, which one holds towards a person, objects, task, or an idea.” It stimulates the behaviour of an individual towards a p
  • Paralympians following Oscar Pistorius trial
    From a court room in Pretoria to the snow and ice more than 7,000 miles away in Sochi, the Oscar Pistorius trial looms large over the Paralympic world.As the fate of the icon of disability sport is determined,
  • Age-old indicators under stress in high Bolivia
    In this February 14, 2014 photo, farmer and traditional meteorologist Francisco Condori measures rain water with a flow meter in Cutusuma, on Lake Titicaca's southern shore in Bolivia. Condori is a well-heeded
  • Amid polluted politics, environmentalist pleads
    He has jumped into polluted rivulets and streams and cleaned them up with the help of his volunteers. His work for environment has been recognised not only in Punjab but also at international fora. Though he ha
  • Where does facilitation stop and bribery begin?
    Some three decades ago, when I was in the government, I made the acquaintance of a senior bureaucrat in an economic ministry who had the audacity to circulate the equivalent of a note verbale among a select few