Perhaps thousands of underage workers as young as 8, lured by the wages, leave school to work in coal mines under perilous conditions. The country officially upholds mining safety standards and forbids child la
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A Profile-Jagdamba Mall His Holiness Shri Jayendra Saraswati is the 69th Acharya of Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. He was initiated into Sayasashram on March 22, 1954 at the age of 19. F
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It is often said that the Americans and the French “love” the British royal family because they don't have to “suffer” it or pay for its extravagant lifestyle. “Ask us we have to b
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Whatever the intention behind them, the new rules framed last month under the Information Technology Act, 2000 are likely to have a chilling effect on the development of the Internet as a medium of communicatio
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Can you love tigers but hate forests? This is the question that troubled me as I visited the middle of India last fortnight. I was in Nagpur, where local politicians, conservationists and officials were discuss
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It was in the late summer of 1991. News began to circulate in our neighborhood that Methaneilie was going to give a two-night musical concert at the Kohima Village Council hall. (I think during those years this
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Barely 50 year old child in Naga Politics entered to into race with the eighty year old strong man of Naga Politics- When SC Jamir comes to the foray, it would be a straight question for the Nagas. Wither Jamir
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The Government of India has hinted that a solution acceptable to both sides maybe round the corner by the end of 2011. An honourable solution is expected according to NSCN (IM). The problem and the irony I see
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To ask a people burdened with systemic bribery to accept bribe-giving as legal is to demand they accept corruption and the existing structures of power and inequity it flows from. Let's get this right. The Chie
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INDIA’S first pilot project to be recognised under the UN’s mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) could be in the East Khasi Hills in Meghalaya.A watershed proje
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The west Bengal assembly elections results went on expected line. The impregnable Marxist fortress for decades, at long last, crumbled after 34 years. A single woman behind the downfall of the Marxist in Bengal
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Model grandmaster plans his next move to change the face of chessEven its staunchest defenders would struggle to describe chess as sexy, but the growing stature of Magnus Carlsen could change all that. Not only
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“We are living today in tomorrow’s world with yesterday’s ideas.” Milovan Djalas. Bitterly trying to get disputes resolved in our favor through shortcut methods and brute force, wi
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A Call for Nationwide Protest Dear friends,Perhaps you are aware that the hunger fast of Irom Sharmila Chanu has crossed 10 years, with a demand for repeal of AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958. She h
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Pakistani state actors were behind 26/11First there was David Headley, the Pakistani-American terrorist who turned into an FBI witness and promised to spill the beans on the Pakistani military-ISI-jihad nexus t
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Election wave is currently flooding the political scenario of India. Politics is a power game and it is not surprising that no voter/ citizen are ever satisfied with the outcome of democratic election. Yet ther
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I received the following email a few days ago from a Russian nuclear physicist friend who is an expert on the kinds of gases being released at Fukushima. Here is what he wrote: About Japan: the problem is that
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The role of the politician and the role of the people have important functions during an election. The question is who follows who? Whether the mass follow the politicians or is it the other way round. Election
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This April, which is Child Sexual Abuse Awareness month, a story about a searing summer of violations, to crack the wall of silence around the issue and remind us that over 53% of India’s children have ex
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If you’ve been following my columns the last two weeks, you’ve come to learn that a diet high in animal fats (which are all saturated fats) is a primary cause of type 2 diabetes. Saturated fats, whi
