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Are we ready for a moron Prime Minister?

The Indian Supreme Court has given a landmark judgment with far reaching implications. Readers might recall that artist M.F.Hussain had made a series of paintings showing Hindu goddesses as well as Bharat...

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Global mobile phone sales continued to surge in the first quarter, when shipments reached 282 million despite an economic downturn, research firm Strategy Analytics...
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An outbreak of mountain pine beetles in British Columbia is doing more than destroying millions of trees: By 2020, the beetles will have done so much damage that the...
Apr 24 2008
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Toyota Motor Corp. has taken the global automotive sales lead from General Motors Corp. in the first quarter, selling 2.41 million vehicles to GM’s 2.25 million.
Apr 23 2008
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Organizers hope a gathering of governors this week will be as effective in addressing climate change as a similar event that launched the conservation movement a...
Apr 13 2008
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The European Union’s top economy official said Friday that Europe deserved a greater say in the global economy as the euro continues gaining ground as the...
Apr 11 2008
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California will create a $600 million think tank to fight global warming, funded by a 25- or 30-cent surcharge on customers’ electrical and gas bills, the state...
Apr 11 2008
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Global warming could force elk and mule deer from much of the American West. Wild trout could disappear in lower Appalachian streams. Two-thirds of the country’s...
Apr 10 2008
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The 308-116 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed a global AIDS bill authorizing $50 billion in spending over five years.
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The House has voted to triple to more than $10 billion a year U.S. humanitarian spending on fighting AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world.
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The government made clear on Thursday it will not be rushed into deciding whether to regulate emissions linked to global warming, as the Supreme Court directed nearly a...
Mar 27 2008
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Leena Komarraju, Kolkata
China seems to be getting blow after blow in recent times. Recently it was criticized for bad handling of the Tibet riots by the international community and now, the...
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Bijoy, tinsukia
Post Saddam Hussain’s hanging, things haven’t changed much and a new phenomenon is grappling Iraq, with a new trend emerging with the rise in the number of...
May 9 2008
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Arpita Mukherjee, Kolkata
Is Raul Castro willing to bring changes to the Cuban social, political and economic structure, stepping away from the shadow of his iconic elder brother Fidel Castro?...
May 2 2008
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Arpita Mukherjee, Kolkata
If you thought that slave trade was only a nineteenth century tyranny by the white masters of Africa then you are mistaken because slave trade continues even these...
Apr 30 2008
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Arpita Mukherjee, Kolkata
If cocaine is for rich man’s addiction, paco is the poor man’s narcotic drug. Made from the chemicals discarded after the production of cocaine, paco smoking has...
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Iraq has been in the news ever since 2001. With the country being in the state of a perpetual war, women and children suffer the most, both, in social and economic...
Apr 28 2008
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Madhuri Katti, Kolkata
Even after national elections, there seems to be no end in sight to the terror rule of Mugabe in Zimbabwe. With speculations doing rounds that Movement for Democratic...
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Yesha, delhi
Food is becoming more expensive not only in our local market but the impact is seen all over the world. Severely affected are the Jamaicans. The researchers and the...
Apr 21 2008
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Somya, Jaipur
After the Suffrage movement in 1890s, one thought that emancipation of women will be incessant and there shall be no looking back. Today, in 2008, again a woman feels...
Apr 18 2008
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Leena Komarraju, Kolkata
A member of the Stolen Generations says that Australian Aboriginal children have been used as experimental specimens for testing the effects of new medicines. The tests...
Apr 15 2008
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This is Khartoum, the capital of Sudan and the safest place in the country. In fact, it’s known to be one of Africa’s safest capitals. Today, it was nothing...
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Senator Barack Obama, freshman Senator from Illinois and current frontrunner from the Democrat party for President, recently stated, “Over the last 15 months, we’ve...
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Rudolf, New York
“Because God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers.” – Jewish Proverb Before I was a Spirit You told the moon of me. Before I was formed You chose me out...
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Leena Komarraju, Kolkata
Employability status of the Indian youth has been commented upon by anybody and everybody of the global community. It is time we gave everybody a fitting reply. People...
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Kim, New York
In the lead-up to Russia’s comical-yet-obscene parade of obsolete, creaking Soviet-made military hardware through Red Square last week, the dictator Vladimir...
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K.Ramesh Babu, Chennai
While the country holds Olympics in 2008, real problems brought out with media help exposes the country’s vulnerability to meet equal economic development. The...
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Aboriginal Rock Art in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory.   To even the uninitiated eye, the traditionally strong use of ochres, reds, blacks and...
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SRI LANKA-Two local journalists working for foreign media were detained at the Valachchenai military check point and sent back to Colombo saying that they need special...
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Ezeego1.com, the travel meta search site, has come out with an exciting offer this summer. ICICI credit card holders will now get fabulous cash back benefits on...
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Atom bombs are just the beginning. In the last half-century, the greatest military minds on Earth have developed an arsenal of weapons to make mutually assured...
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Dani, Denver
Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York...
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As the cyclone raged around him, Ko Zaw Min clung to a tree with one arm and clutched his newborn son with the other. He watched as the boy died in his arm, and then...
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Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors.
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Stephanie, Richmond
Riggs and Schwartz are foot soldiers in Barack Obama’s 1.5-million-strong army of campaign contributors. Dozens of Associated Press interviews with donors and an...
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A Quebec woman is feeling the heat after 12 kilos of cocaine were found in boxes of cake mix being brought into the country through Pearson Airport.
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The Clinton brand among black voters was so strong, so unbreakable, so resilient a force that even the first credible black candidate for the presidency remained stuck...
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Dianne, Dallas
Mothers are precious. In fact, they’re super-heroines...except when they haunt you, beat you or sell you into government office. (And even then, there’s...
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“The ignorance is hard to believe ... It isn’t enough to say that these young people are uninterested in world realities. They are actively cut off from...
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The elderly are cared for by their adult children regardless of their marital status. In a unique study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, researchers...
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