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  • UN’s Double Standard on Human Rights Abusers Protects Big Powers
    Thalif Deen Inter Press Service When the UN’s annual report on Children and Armed Conflict was released last week, it was expected to “name and shame” some of the world’s worst human
  • New upskilling initiative focuses on Covid widows, survivors
    Siddhi Jain IANSlife In a bid to help women from families that have lost their breadwinners to Covid-19 in the recent surge in India, the IC3 Institute, a U.S. non-profit, will enable them with training and
  • A Wave of Sorrow..!
    It’s not a second or third wave of the virus, but a wave of sorrow that envelops us today!If you feel sad and depressed right now, and can’t understand why, then join billions of others who feel the same, a
  • Can COVID-19 vaccines affect my period?
    Ali Swenson and Arijeta Lajka The Associated Press  It’s not known, but researchers are starting to study the issue. Vaccines are designed to activate your immune system, and some experts have
  • Argument on the Ventilator..!
    She lay on the ventilator, as fervent prayers went up from hundreds, in plea chains and waves, outside same hospital, “Save her!” they prayed, and up in heaven God listened to their prayers even as He looke
  • The Dictator’s Daughter or the Farmer’s Son?
    Sara Brombart Inter Press Service Peru’s first round of elections on 11 April saw voters choosing between 18 presidential candidates with no one candidate leading by an impressive margin. Pedro Cas
  • Sunny on the Other Side..!
    “They’re frowning down below!” laughed the clouds as they stared back at the jovial sun, who was trying his best to make them hot, but then clouds don’t become hot do they, I mean, have you ever heard o
  • Old and New World Competition..!
    It wasn’t too many years ago, every time the word ‘computers’ was mentioned, government employees would go on strike. Millions of man hours were wasted as clerks continued to painstakingly and laboriously
  • How work from home culture is changing the culture of work
    Muskan Aggarwal PTI As Covid hit the world last year, many companies were forced to shut down their offices and work remotely. Now, after a year, people have slowly started adapting to the Work From Home cu
  • Words of encouragement for pastors & churches in Nagaland
    Dr Panger Kichu Oriental Theological Seminary, Dimapur  Today, we are compelled towards an unprecedented COVID context and the demands for the service of pastors and clergies have exponentially increas
  • Ban the Dosa..!
    After my morning walk, I sit for an hour on my terrace garden, savoring my pot of delicious coffee. All around me I hear the sounds of birds and squirrels, as the peepul tree towering over me provides a home to
  • Know Your Health System
    Limatula Yaden Public Health is a state subject and hence the primary responsibility to provide accessible, affordable quality heathcare to the population lies with the State Government. Under the National H
  • Human gods..!
    Very often we make a god out of a guru or priest and feel disappointed and even lose our beliefs when they fall.Many, many years ago as a child I used to sit in church and like all youngsters fidget, look aroun
  • Know Your Entitlements under NHM
    Limatula Yaden NHM Free Drugs Services Initiative (FDSI) Funding is provided for this Initiative to improve access to and provision of essential drugs/medicines free of cost in all public health facilities
  • Happy Belated Father’s Day..!
    Every morning as I sit in my little garden and ponder on what to write, I look at the little blue collapsible stool on which I place my newspapers and remember my father. Today, on Father’s Day, I specially t
  • Enid Blyton and Kipling..!
    Racists! That’s what the two have been branded as! Two writers, Enid Blyton and Rudyard Kipling, who shaped our formative years, both in reading and in the unleashing of childhood imagination, and who today,
  • Hush..!
    ‘Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature..’ Zhuangzi The lovely, agile and nimble steps of
  • India collaborates with UNICEF to tackle youth employment
    IANS India on Thursday signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to co-create and implement solutions at scale to tackle the employment and skilling challenges f
  • Protest is a Right..!
    Protesting without arms is a fundamental right and not a terrorist activity’ - Delhi High CourtEven as the high court gives citizens of our country the right to protest, I do believe that the greatest gift a
  • The Marginalisation of Africa
    Branko Milanović Inter Press Service Is Africa marginalised in contemporary economics and politics, and in contemporary economic and political research? Impressions gathered over the years and a bit of
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