There is a check dam in Laxmipur village, R Udayagir gram panchayat, in Orissa’s Gajapati district, which irrigates around 40 acres of land belonging to 70 small and marginal farmers. Premlata Raita, 48,
Monday, 17th February, 2025
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Mao Zedong, the first Chairman cum President of the independent People’s Republic of China, had spent more time to assess weaknesses of India than Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Premier of independent India,
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China has opened a new consulate in Sudan’s autonomous south, determined to tap greater economic potential from the undeveloped region. As the world anxiously watches the southern Sudanese vote on wh
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Violence in Manipur driven by separatist groups and state actors has now been ongoing for decades - and children of Manipur are paying the price for this violence. They have been pushed to greater poverty, and
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Science when hyped loses credibility. Two separate incidents in a span of three weeks show how scientists who hype up and sensationalise their work end up diluting the significance of their discovery. In a pape
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Political analysts may have their own explanations as to what were the factors that thwarted an ‘anti-incumbency’ tide in Bihar and turned it completely in favour of Mr Nitish Kumar, but definitely
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On Jan. 7, Chile extended diplomatic recognition to the state of Palestine as a free, independent, and sovereign state. This comes soon after the recent recognitions by Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
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Those who stand to gain from the votes of India’s bogus citizens as well as those who believe that there is nothing sacred about nationality, leave alone the nation, have successfully struck the issue of
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Attendees at the 18th International AIDS conference held in Vienna in July 2010 felt a tremor of hope when Prof. Salim Abdool Karim received a standing ovation following the announcement that a vaginal gel cont
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The official response to unrest on Tunisia's streets comes straight out of a tyrant's playbook: order police to fire on unarmed demonstrators, deploy the army, blame resulting violence on “terrorists̶
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The next time you happen to be in Arizona drinking a cool beer with some time on your hands, ask the person along the bar to describe for you the Glock 19. Likelihood is he will know what you're talking about,
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Hou Yifan, the new women’s world chess champion, is the youngest person, male or female, ever to win a world championship. If there’s a human face on Rising China, it belongs not to some Politb
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The technology choice that China made for sanitation and wastewater management has led to not only blistering economic growth but also rapid urbanisation as it helped Beijing reduce GDP loss that poor sanitatio
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Maybe it is the desire to sell books that makes Stephen Hawking claim the death of God and the death of Philosophy. (If you're in the UK, you can listen Hawking make this claim here.) M-theory, a variant of str
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This week, South Sudan is again going to the polls, this time to vote in a referendum on secession from the North. The preliminary result should be known by 15th January, and will mark one of the final stages o
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For many people it is a surprise to note the ENPO’s move for statehood. The immediate reaction to this social upsurge maybe summed up as below:-1 From the formation of the state of Nagal
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Attendees at the 18th International AIDS conference held in Vienna in July 2010 felt a tremor of hope when Prof. Salim Abdool Karim received a standing ovation following the announcement that a vaginal gel cont
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In late October 2010, a large group of people living in and around Mae Sot, Tak province were closing in on a terrible 'milestone' of sorts: all of them – over 60 migrant children, women and men
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MEMORIES: Deng-Athoi Galuak in his apartment in Norcross, Georgia, with documents relating to his time in a refugee camp, the first time he has seen them, and Ajak Dau Akech with a hard copy of his refugee iden
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With some amusement I read reports last Friday about jailed Maoist Binayak Sen having moved a court in Chhattisgarh against the sentence of life imprisonment awarded to him last month. I say amusement because o
