From initially seeking to protect civilians to now aiming for a swift, total victory in Libya, the mission creep that has characterised the western powers' military attack raises troubling questions about their
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We all know that when HIV started to spread in the 1980s, it spread mainly among certain groups of people who include men who have sexual relation with men, commercial sex workers and people who inject drugs. T
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It is indeed sad that we should ban a book on the life of a man who embodied openness, who invited generations to follow after him to read and interpret his life as that was his message, a man who through his a
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Help Our EarthEarth! Earth! Earth! We say,But What! What! What! We do?Shouldn’t we do something for our earth?Aren’t we the ones this home we dwell in?So let us be together,And help it,That it will
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Last year’s deadly rise in tensions in the Korean peninsula put off any prospects of reunification. Young-II Kim, a North Korean defector and executive director of PSCORE, an organisation furthering the u
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World Health day is celebrated on 7th April every year to mark the founding of WHO. The Organization selects a key health issue and encourages people from all ages and all backgrounds to hold events that highli
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In the changed scenario of the ruling party politics the NPF lead DAN government is no longer represented by elected members of former political allies- the BJP and NCP, so continued usage of the nomenclature D
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While we are yet to find out which political party will benefit from the impressive voter turnout — an estimated 75 per cent — in the first phase of Assembly election in Assam, one can be confident
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Institution is established and sustained by moral conscience of community. It deduces that institution reflects the quality of polity, society and economy. In short, the delivery mirrors people's ethics and val
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The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and
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Sometimes, the good news is inextricably tied up with the bad. Provisional data from Census 2011 indicate that India's population might stabilise soon with the slowing down of the growth rate. From 21.54 per ce
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Aier’s Enclave, the building strategically positioned next to IMC, Dimapur, is not an ordinary guest house by any standard of measurement. Extraordinary things happen there. It is run by Temjenkala Aier a
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When I were to look at myself, I usually come out from a point where I think, “I deal with my own problems first”. This is just probably myself looking at situations, circumstances that come across
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The military intervention in Libya now threatens the Arab democracy risings. This makes diplomacy and demilitarisation essential, says Mark TaylorThe struggles in the Arab world aim to establish one simple prin
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A comprehensive set of presentations and papers from the "South Asia Conference on Outstanding Organic Agriculture Techniques" held at Bangalore, Karnataka on 10 and 11 September 2009, and organised b
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Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily's announcement that the central government would ban the book Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India had no justification in fact, law, or common sense. The thr
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Today we hear about the violent Earth—eruptions of fire, rogue waves, tremors, quakes, mega-storms, speeding walls of ocean water, weather like a rampaging berserker. But we accept without question the vi
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The word “politics” has come to earn all the bad names simply because of corrupt politicians. But politics as a process is neither bad nor good. It is a necessary means of governing the society in a
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In this image released to the media, representatives of the three Naga national political groups NSCN/GPRN, FGN and GPRN/NSCN are seen here with the Naga flag at a meeting of the Joint Working Group of the Naga
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As India and Sri Lanka prepare for the big match this afternoon, Pakistan will no doubt contemplate its poignant absence from the festivities and fireworks at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium. The reference here
