To mark International Women’s Day, UNESCO and the UIS have jointly released the World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education, which includes over 120 maps, charts and tables featuring a wide range of sex-disaggregated indicators. The vivid presentation of information… Continue Reading →
By Mustafa Plumber | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA The Bombay high court on Thursday stayed the construction of a dam being built on Kalu River in Thane district because necessary permissions were not obtained by the state government from… Continue Reading →
By Associated Press, SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An Illinois law against recording conversations was ruled unconstitutional Friday, the second time in the past year a judge has struck it down. The eavesdropping law makes it a felony to record conversations without… Continue Reading →
Deepu Sebastian Edmond , Financial Express Hisar:When they planned the murder of a classmate in broad daylight, Kalyan Singh and Raj Kumar were probably counting on the Omerta their brazen act would induce among their college mates. They were not… Continue Reading →
PARIS — France‘s state-controlled nuclear giant Areva lost euro2.4 billion ($3.2 billion) in 2011, much of that on the back of a troubled uranium mining venture that has been the subject of investigation. Thursday’s dismal figures reflect a difficult year… Continue Reading →
The comforting thing about the sham wrestling ‘championships’ on television is that everybody knows they are a farce. Steroid-stuffed Cro-Magnons stomp the living daylights out of painkiller-primed Neanderthals. Good, unclean fun. The results are safely predictable. You should expect the… Continue Reading →
Lawmakers in Russia just passed a draconian censorship law that would impose stiff fines for anything construed as “the promotion of homosexuality” in Saint Petersburg, Russia‘s second largest city. Reading, writing, speaking or reporting on anything related to gay, lesbian… Continue Reading →
Buisnessworld , 03 Mar 2012, Prasad Sangameshwaran The hunter becomes the hunted. Adman Piyush Pandey, known for his anti-smoking campaign and a film on the Bhopal gas tragedy, finds himself at the receiving end of a controversy. At the epicentre… Continue Reading →
March3, 2012- Sampath in DNA In one of her talks in Mumbai that I attended some years ago, Arundhati Roy posed this question to the audience, or maybe she was quoting from a Hindi poem. She asked, ‘Kya kar raha… Continue Reading →
DHINKIA – Umakant Biswal a young anti POSCO activist and a farmer from Dhinkia was shot and arrested yesterday when he was working on the farm near the village. Police came on motor cycle in civil dress to arrest him,… Continue Reading →
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