Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi gestures as she offers yellow robes to Buddhist monks in front of the National League for Democracy party's headquarters in Rangoon, Dec. 8, 2010. Burma’
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ToThe President of India, The Prime Minister of India, The National Commission for Minorities, Governor of Nagaland, Chief Minister of Nagaland, Department of Economics and Statistics, The Hindu, The Hindustan
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Australians have long talked of their continent as “a land of droughts and flooding rains,” a geographic fact that also accounts for their high resiliency during a weather crisis. But record rainfal
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And I handed over my Nokia E 71 Smartphone to the four hooded guys. January the first, 2011 – I began this New Year by being robbed. I had been sitting on my couch and reading the whole day and even as I
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Ratan Tata recently said that foreign countries could soon begin to see India as a ‘banana republic’. Well, there is one domain where the Government is not really far from this definition: It is the
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The Former Nagaland Finance Minister Mr. K. Therie has described the demand of the ENPO for a ‘FRONTIER NAGALAND STATE’ as “heart breaking”. How true it is; the separations of Husband an
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Today Burma celebrates its 63rd independence day. It was on this day in 1948 that the Union of Burma was granted independence by the British, but more than six decades have not yet seen the resolution of confli
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In my whole existences in this world, till date I have come across so many people of different shades and colors with different characters and personalities having immense power with wealth and powerless people
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The price of gold has gone up from $256 an ounce in 2001 to $1,424. Meanwhile, price levels have struggled or crashed with respect to almost all other asset classes. Central banks have slashed interest rates. Y
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China's “SECRET WAR PLAN” (Be amazed!) has leaked out and fallen into the hands of none other than “Popular Mechanics”(PM) magazine, which plastered it on the cover of its December issue
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The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was launched in 2005 to bring about a dramatic improvement in the health system and health status of people in rural India. It seeks to provide universal access to healt
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The recent ad spot for M-Kesho, the groundbreaking mobile phone-linked bank account launched earlier this year in Kenya, is endearingly playful. To gently teasing music, a man with a jar of coins digs a giganti
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It seems that the waters of the stagnant Arab swamp may be stirring at last. Tunisia, that small north African country on the Arab world's western shores, has for the past two weeks been the scene of a social u
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Among hordes of SMSes I received this season from friends and relatives, I selected two as the best SMS of the season. Though belated, let me share it to all readers. Here it is: “I am so sorry to d
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Had anyone heard Rahul Gandhi talk about ‘Hindu terrorism’ before? Then why is everyone jumping the gun and accusing him of vote-bank politics? Will the saffron leaders make up their minds whether h
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José Luis Gómez del Prado, Chairman of the United Nations Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries, has provided a damning indictment of private military and security companies (PMSCs), the use of whic
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A new year! A new decade! As we emerge from our merry-making and celebrations, the above heading may seem cautious, even apprehensive or skeptical to some. But it can also be a really honest question that goes
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Delphine Riviere, an adoptive parent from central France, holds Haitian child, Erika, on her arrival in France for adoption, at Roissy airport, outside Paris. (AP File Photo) A loving girl who had lost her
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It has been almost a month since the elections in Ivory Coast produced not one – but two presidents – one sworn in ceremoniously, wrapped in a regal sash, gushing in front of cameras at the presiden
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In preparation for a new year or in order to begin another year, people practice different ways to symbolize ‘forsaking their old habits and decision for change.’ But a change has to do with our egg
