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  • Disaster risk reduction; An everyday concern for everybody
    What is becoming equally apparent, however, is the importance of resilience - not only in the structures we design and build but in the way we perceive, cope with, and reshape our lives after the worst has happ
  • Status of Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB)
    One of the greatest challenge to TB Control is the problem of Multi Drug Resistant TB(MDR TB).India has 2nd highest MDR-TB burden in the world after China. In India, the available information from the several d
  • Barefoot: Rainbows in the dust
    Children on the streets are brave but profoundly vulnerable survivors. They have often run away from drunken and intensely violent fathers, cruel step-parents, incest, starvation, parents who cannot or fail to
  • Using the King memorial to live out his legacy
    Los Angeles, California - Scores of celebrations will take place in Washington, DC in conjunction with the 16 October dedication ceremony of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial. However, 43 years afte
  • “Scholarship distribution – The mind troubler”
    •-Why is it that the concerned department taking so much time in disbursing the scholarship to all the students till now. . . . . ?????????Now, it has almost reached the end of the year and still now not
  • Lebanese women fight revolution through football
    Lebanese women are fighting a silent revolution on the football field through the popular club programme of the Cross Cultures Project Association (CCPA) in Lebanon, which provides educational activities for th
  • Argentina’s missing children face hard truths
    Victoria Montenegro recalls a childhood filled with chilling dinnertime discussions. Lt. Col. Hernán Tetzlaff, the head of the family, would recount military operations he had taken part in where “su
  • A Long-Awaited Answer
    At around 5:30 pm on the evening of 5th October 2011, I received a call from my beloved brother Ruopfükuotuo Noudi. He was calling from the NPSC office to inform me that he had been selected as EAC as per
  • India Inc's open letter to govt on corruption
    India Inc has written an open letter to the Centre highlighting need for urgent reforms on governance deficit, corruption and environmental issues.Here is the full text of the letter.On January 17, 2011, we, a
  • An appeal to the Director of Technical Education
    •-We the undersigned would like to draw your kind attention for consideration and necessary action that in our State (Nagaland) there are only three technical institutions which are supposed to be the hop
  • Appeal of UNFC to the People and International Community
    At the oath taking ceremony for assuming presidential duties, President U Thein Sein said that he would endeavor for national unity and the growth of the union spirit, which was true nationalism. On August 18,
  • Why do people hate Hitler?
    Why do people hate Hitler so much? And why do people hate the Nazis so much? What made them think so? I was born in August 29 1980; it falls on the death anniversary our great freedom fighter, Haipou Jadonang,
  • Beyond the Lokpal: Fighting corruption on multiple fronts
    While punishing the corrupt is important, institutions such as the Lokpal or Lokayukta can play only a limited role, says Samuel Paul. What we need is reform of public service design and delivery, transparency
  • Mission Calling
    HOLY SPIRIT THE FORE RUNNERComposed on 19th October 1997, Hong KongSalvation, its substance, is Jesus Christ Himself. Healing too, its substance, is Jesus Christ Himself Desire to have salvation and healing? Do
  • A radical fix to the climate change problem
    With political action on curbing greenhouse gases stalled in the U.S., a bipartisan panel of scientists, former government officials and national security experts is recommending that the government begin resea
  • India’s war on its poor
    "They forced us to sit naked in a row and splashed a mug of water on each of us". Bashirabi is a poor vegetable vendor who was waiting to get a train home to Nagpur when she was detained and sent to a
  • Naga - Freedom Under Chains
    The Nagas declared their Independence from the British on 14th August 1946. Does it mean more than 60 years under India's rule? In retrospection, has our struggle for freedom become as hollow as our Declaration
  • Human Peace
    The law of human relationship with God which is human ethics towards God “KNOW GOD, BELIEVE IN HIM, FEAR HIM AND OBEY HIM” through which alone all men and women irrespective of races and languages c
  • Beyond sovereignty & UN recognition
    So the outcome of the application for recognition of an independent Palestinian state remains unclear.  To some, this move by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations was at best defeatist an
  • GOING THE EXTRA MILE
    The scenes played out in the previous few days in Nagaland have been reminiscent of the days of the civil rights movement in America or the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, where the suppressed black pe