While the outside world grapples with how much power Myanmar's new partly civilian government will command, the country's still ruling generals are literally digging in, taking no chances of a substantial power
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The media generally assume that news of war, crime and natural disasters will always win an audience. "If it bleeds, it leads," is a well-tried adage of American journalism. Of the three categories, c
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In 2003, an ACLU report warned that "Big Brother" no longer is fiction, America having advanced to where total surveillance is now possible. Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Lib
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While appreciating the untiring peace initiatives undertaken by the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR); and positive responses from all sections of Naga peoples especially the Naga national workers; the Concer
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Democracy is a gift and the virtues of it are supposed to bring joy to the people of every tongue, tribe and nation. When we put rotten apples in the midst of the good ones, it spoils the good ones too. In the
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The census 2011 and the enumeration exercise thereof, has been giving the Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Caste members across the country, a very harrowing time and is set to deprive lakhs of people out of thei
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My generation, now the forty- somethings, grew up with a series of benevolent uncles. Uncle Badri taught us to draw on national television. Uncle Pai taught us our history, our mythology, and in so doing, had a
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There are two types of parties in India. The first category is that which has dynastic control over the leadership and the second is cadre-based parties. Perhaps there is no scope for the third. However, it is
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LEADERS AND KINGS: Unrest is rapidly changing the map, claiming some leaders while forcing others to undertake reforms. (Clockwise from top) Tunisia's former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt's former Pr
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In an issue where all the sides are right, it is difficult to forward a neutral opinion! However, an honest approach, keeping at the back of the mind the common good in a welfare State is the key to conflict re
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For those of us who remember a time when the blackberry was just a fruit and Shaktimaan the ultimate superhero, the death of our beloved Uncle Pai has led to melancholy mixed with nostalgia. Uncle Pai — f
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Just 122 votes were cast in the election which created a “provisional administration in waiting” for the Chagos Islands – the Diego Garcia and Chagos Islands Council – an organisation wi
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A serious water crisis at Keoladeo National Park, exacerbated by caste politics and strife, has put its World Heritage Site status at risk. Barely 10% of the migratory birds that used to flock to Bharatpur are
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At least, overtly, there has been no talk from either Washington or Tel Aviv - the governments with most to lose as the Egyptian revolution unfolds - of military intervention. Such restraint is more expressive
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As we honor and celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, I wonder what he might make of the U.S. today. Perhaps his words can give us some insight.The U.S. today – a snapshotClearly lots of things have changed s
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While the legality of the decision to grant Jamia Millia Islamia the status of a minority institution is yet to be tested — there are several intricacies involved in the process — what is jarring is
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Amitabh Bachan said it when he twitted in reply “Why would you assume that these are a film stars feet ..!! (sic)” with regard to the latest twitter picture of two similarly dressed young girls tyin
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Child undernutrition levels in India are among the highest in the world. This situation has been tolerated for too long, and the National Food Security Act is a unique opportunity for radical change in this fie
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The leader of the Libyan revolution presides over a “famously fractious” family that is powerful, wealthy, dysfunctional and marked by internecine struggles, according to U.S. diplomatic cables rele
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Industrial globalised agriculture is heavily implicated in climate change. It contributes to the three major greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide (CO2) from the use of fossil fuels, nitrogen oxide (N2O) from the us
