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There is a feisty old woman in every village. In Maparanhanga, a remote village in Mozambique, reached by a several-hour-trip through potholes held together by scraps of road, the feisty old woman didn’t stand out at first. She sat alongside her female...
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A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 39 people, an official said Tuesday.
The landslide...
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An act more defaming than this can hardly be imagined. The Maharashtra Assembly seems to have become a hub for goons to reign. It’s not everyday that you get to...
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It has become mandatory for all profit making Public Sector Firms (PSU) to make at least 10% of their equities public and relevant rules have been duly amended by the...
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In India, more than 95% of the schools are not teaching properly. It is very difficult to get good education without tuition and parents teaching. Teachers are just...
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Of Politicians, Goats and Monkeys.
This is a phenomenon that I have seen frequently in Tamil families but here I wish to see this in a lighter vein. It happened that...
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In a company CEO is highly paid person that complete team which making the the profit to company multiple time.
After a one year again this issues raised by the...
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Thank god so far Dalai Lama does not need permission from China to visit Arunachal & can stay at Dharmshala till god wants. I wonder why there is no national...
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Its a National Shame when an elected representative of a national party has been attacked,when he has taken oath in National language Hindi.
Abu Azmi of Samajwadi...
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I do not want to scare you bu saying that with nuclear Taliban which next generation we are talking about. So I will try to be more optimistic & assume that India...
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Don’t throw yourself at man and indulge in promiscuity,protect your own body, purity,and chastity - This is the message Delhi High court has given to all those...
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After watching Madhur Bhandarkar’s movie ‘JAIL’ I couldn’t stop appreciating him for bringing in to day light such a bad face of India. The...
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When Australia arrived India to play seven match oneday series Ponting knew that this is going to be a tough task. Look back who were absent from the 15 men squad:...
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I think it was Kapil Dev who shed tears on the national TV, That time it was a novelty, people were shocked, embarrassed and plainly disgusted with such a public show...
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The following link gives the story of the shooting in American military base, Ft. Wood. The American nation is in such a trauma, that they are censoring the news, a...
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Read Only If You Have a Burning Desire for India’s Progress
My friend Gurpreet returned to India after working for twenty five-years in the West. On reading about...
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So far Bengal is concerned, it’s having an ominous undertone may it be Marx, Mata or Maoists. So far I am concerned Maoists are the offspring of the unholy relation...
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Sir, I represent the self employed urban middle class from services sector. I Have spent the 50 odd years of my existence in this country. Now when my descent has...
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One of my friends is enormously rich. I told him once—“Why don’t you donate something for a noble cause?”
He replied without the least hesitation, “Noble...
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Rather than beating the same old drum at the United Nations Pakistan should take a credible action against the militants in order to have a meaningful dialogue with...
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The above title might suggest to you an Agatha Christie story plot but the truth is far more spine-chilling and blood-curdling. In this bad world where we live in hope...
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Every year we celebrate independence day with a lot of hype and ceremony, we stand up for the national anthem nd sing in unison jana gna mana adhinayaka jaya he...We...
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I will say why not?
At least I have no answer to this. I wonder why despite being the oldest profession & an indispensable one prostitution does not command...
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Kenya has once again topped the list of the most corrupt countries in the region. Transparency international’s bribery index says Kenya has the most incidents of...
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“Even a dog in any European Union country enjoys better living conditions than we do here,” complained Danush Ademi, a Kosovar MP representing the Ashkali...
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I have been writing about Zimbabwe/Mugabe for almost six years now – and I would hate to know how many hours I have spent in research, or how many words I have...
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There really should a comedy sitcom dedicating to the lives of Persian Gulf princes. There is endless material for laughter. “Those Gulf Royals” would...
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The poverty-stricken nation of Niger is hitting back after a UN report branded it the world’s worst place to live.
Niger’s Institute of Statistics plans to...
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Reporting from Toribio, Colombia - Craving adventure and escape from his broken home, Jerson enlisted with leftist guerrillas when he was in his early teens. He saw it...
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President Museveni’s brother General Caleb Akwandwaho, popularly known as Salim Saleh recently declared his wealth to the inspector of government. In his briefing...
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Kenya, one of Africa’s most popular tourist destinations, is being targeted by Western paedophiles who are exploiting the country’s poverty and lax law enforcement...
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Scores of women, many of them married and with children, gathered outside the office of Chaudhry Iftikhar, a local trader, in the old quarters of the port city’s...
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The Indian Prime minister addressed top government officials a month ago and told them that the system was ridden with corruption. I did not...
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Denise de Oliveira lost her job as a janitor in June when she had to stay home to care for her 13-year-old son, who had pneumonia. The 45-year-old single mother of four...
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Each day, when I read through dozens of articles on the internet in an attempt to filter out those that I wish to highlight on my main page, “The Bearded...
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It is a year since the world reverberated after the fall of the once mighty Lehman Brothers and the cataclysmic events that followed. There is a lot of soul searching...
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It is official now. Two hundred and seventy-eight districts out of approximately 604 districts in the country are reeling under drought and agriculture growth and in...
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Villagers march more than 300 kilometers from northwest Cambodia to ask the prime minister to save their homes from developers. Some 400 families in the country’s...
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When India got freedom from the British rule the people of India really had a big dream to form their own government and achieve an all round development in the...
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“They are cheerful-looking and photogenic, but close to all have a very sad story,” said Budi Soehardi, founder of the West Timor orphanage.
“Some of...
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