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Wyo. tribe mourns 3 teens, loss of cultural ties

AP — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:30:17 +0000

Rows of rundown houses sit among stunted trees on a bleak, wind-swept plateau. The nearest mountains are a faint smudge on the horizon, and a boarded-up house marks the end of the...

Reservation in Colleges Sucks

Radhika — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:18:05 +0000

Reservation of seats in colleges for the weaker section of the society is just another sham. It’s a source of making a quick buck for both the authorities and the colleges. It’s a known fact that, if you have the moolah but not the...

Now quota for IIT Professors...

Abhijit — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:54:07 +0000

Now the reservation for the teaching faculty members! What an amazing idea! The politicians seem to be in a mood to implement quota in all spheres of life and in all possible ways. I guess, the only place left is the cricket team or other sports...

Calif. tribe, police reach truce after shootout

AP — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:12:08 +0000

Leaders of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department signed a federal mediation agreement Monday designed to improve communication and ease tension between them.The agreement, brokered by the U.S....

Does Mr. Raj Thackeray really has a Point ???

Amit S — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:02:34 +0000

If a report in today’s TOI to be believed, Mr. Raj Thackeray has a new problem. As per his data, Railway had recruited 1000 TCs (ticket collector) but only a few selected candidates are Marathi. Oops, I thought that was a national level...

Caste Based Reservations-Needed or Not

Mayuri Majumdar — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:18:46 +0000

Reservation in Indian law is a form of affirmative action whereby a percentage of seats are reserved in the public sector units, union and state civil services, union and state government departments and in all public and private...

Brazil creates new Indian reservation

AP — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:07:47 +0000

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decreed a new 3.8 million acre (1.5 million hectare) Indian reservation Friday in the heart of the Amazon rain forest’s logging frontier.The Bau reservation in Para state had been sought by the Kayapo...

3 bodies found on Wyo. reservation were teen girls

AP — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:14:06 +0000

A coroner says the three people found dead on an Indian reservation were teenage girls.The bodies were found in a Wind River Indian Reservation home Wednesday morning. The girls were ages 13, 14 and 15 but their identities have not been...

Can Quota bring parity in our society?

Madhuri Katti — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:36:10 +0000

Why is Gujjar community agitating? Why does it need SC (Scheduled Caste) status so badly? We had thought that the caste wars are buried in the pages of history but no, they have taken centre stage again. Once upon a time, long time ago, India...

Feds investigate bodies found on Wyo. reservation

AP — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:41:05 +0000

The bodies of three people were found Wednesday in a housing complex on a vast American Indian reservation, and the FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs were investigating, officials said.Authorities released few details about the victims found on the...