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  • Party defends Merkel against critics after election
    BERLIN, March 28 (Reuters): German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party said on Monday it stood united behind its leader after some members blamed her for a humiliating loss in a state vote in Baden-Wu
  • Supreme Court raps govt for not investigating source of black money
    New Delhi, March 28 (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday flayed the government for not probing into specific sources of black money stashed in banks abroad and asked the Centre to apprise it of its investigation
  • First day of Indo-Pak talks ‘extremely positive’
    Officials of Pakistan, left, and India, right, sit on either side of a table during India-Pakistan Home/Interior secretary level talks in New Delhi, March 28. India and Pakistan have begun two days of diplomati
  • SC seeks response from Centre on complete ban on plastics
    New Delhi, March 28 (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre on why there should not be a complete ban on the use of plastics in the country which at present is limited to tobacco prod
  • Tiger population rises on the back of conservation efforts
    New Delhi, March 28 (PTI): The tiger population in the country has risen to 1706 compared to 1411 in 2006 — a 12 per cent increase that excludes the big cats of Sundarbans, the latest Tiger Census said to
  • Mani Shankar rubbishes Wikileaks expose
    LUCKNOW, march 28 (PTI): Former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar today rubbished Wikileaks expose that he was replaced by Murli Deora as Petroleum Minister in 2006 under US pressure. He, however noted that the
  • Media as politics in Singapore
    SINGAPORE - Days before Singapore Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced the government's 2011 budget in parliament, the political opposition offered a glimpse of how it would allocate the national f
  • Lent: A Season To Reconcile
    •-The season of Lent began on Ash Wednesday, with a reminder that, "Dust you are, and into dust you shall return" and as we pass through this season, we are reminded of God's divine love throu
  • A silver lining in dark Japan?
    During times of great tragedy, the media often focus on little things designed to give us hope: an old man who survived by clinging to his roof or a child improbably pulled from the rubble, safe after several d
  • Incentive for Northeast India: Does it help?
    Introduction: The incentive package scheme under the North East Industrial Policy, 1997, reintroduced as the North East Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy (NEIIPP), 2007 intended to promote biotechnolog
  • Oral Literature: Tradition & Modernity
    We all have stories to tell. Stories about joy, sadness, accomplishments, failures or other emotional things that we have lived through. Oral history listens to these stories. Oral history is the systematic col
  • An appeal for road improvement
    •-The condition of the road behind MGM Hr. Sec. School, Midland Colony, Dimapur which is one of the most important roads of the colony, has been a major concern for the people of the colony.  The roa
  • Beyond Dialogue
    Behind the façade of uniformity in every government or organization, there are real people with a wide spectrum of reasons for maintaining rank with the hierarchy of orders. Often these reasons have more
  • Quotation
    The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others- Albert Schweitzer
  • WARREN BUFFETT’S MESSAGE?
    POSCO affected villagers seek responsible investment, not charity, from Buffett Warren Buffett, one of the world’s richest individuals, will urge India’s ultra-rich to give away their wealth to char
  • Down a long and difficult road
    As the newest country in the world, South Sudan faces huge challenges. But the perseverance of the people and their determination to construct a functioning state raise hopes for the country's future. Life in S
  • Non-Communicable Diseases Outsmart Infectious Diseases
    Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) - cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes - are no longer diseases of the wealthy. They are responsible for 8 million deaths in the world’
  • Dalai Lama and destiny of Tibetans
    To ensure that Tibetans do not lose their sense of nationhood, the Dalai Lama should select his successor before it’s too late. This is all the more important to prevent Beijing from imposing its choice o
  • Mother of insurgencies or reinvention?
    In the early 1980s (when this correspondent returned to Guwahati as working journalist after an eight-year absence), insurgency in the northeast was limited to Nagaland, parts of Manipur and what was then the U
  • To Post Graduate Students’ Lumami, with anguish
    •-Dear respected brothers and sisters, you are supposed to be in the vanguard of intellectual reformation in the society, but you have turned towards hooliganism. Your recent act of vandalism cannot be
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