By Arun Anand---
Kandhamal (Orissa), Feb 24 (IANS) Reena Rana, a tribal woman in her 20s, is waiting for her five-year-old son to be returned to her. Her husband married another woman a few years ago and Reena had to leave his house. She is voiceless, like many other tribal women in Orissa's Kandhamal district who are victims of domestic violence.
By Amulya Ganguli----
After Sachin Tendulkar, it is Mukesh Ambani who has said the obvious - Mumbai belongs to all Indians. That it takes a sports icon and a business magnate to articulate a virtual axiom points to the deplorable context in which such truisms have to be emphasised. Nothing can be more damaging to Mumbai's reputation than the need for such assertions because Tendulkar's and Ambani's statements point to the presence of elements which are bent on destroying the city's cosmopolitanism....
By Amulya Ganguli----
Jyoti Basu's life encompasses the entire period of the Left's rise and fall in India. ...
By Amulya Ganguli----
Blessed are the peacemakers. But to be successful, their efforts have to be rooted in reality. This wasn't the case with a recent seminar in New Delhi, which called for the resumption of India-Pakistan dialogue, because its timing was hopelessly wrong....
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar---
Panaji, Jan 4 (IANS) Learning to make do with numb hands, a busted autopilot and a couple of rebellious bolts... that's the sum of Commander Dilip Donde's New Year story on board the Indian Naval Sailing Vessel Mhadei on his daunting marine expedition around the world.
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By Amulya Ganguli---
The installation of the virtually unknown Nitin Gadkari as president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has further eroded the tattered contention of the Hindu supremacist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that it does not interfere in the affairs of its political wing.
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By Ritu Sharma----
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) As India hotly debates whether to induct women fighter pilots, a look around the world reveals they have been so fearsome in some places that they came to be branded "nigh witches". Pakistan and China already have them, but they have never faced direct combat....
By Madhusree Chatterjee---
Adharjhor (Jharkhand), Dec 17 (IANS) In the heart of a dense forest in the Patamda block, this ramshackle village of 100 thatched huts is fighting a tough battle to keep afloat its 400-year-old traditional craft - making percussion instruments....
By Sarwar Kashani---
Moscow, Dec 15 (IANS) Snow-covered roads in winters, bustling crowds of shoppers wrapped in heavy woollens, beautifully decked shops, and a sense of insecurity -- there are plenty of commonalities between Moscow's Red Square and its namesake Lal Chowk in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar city....
By Amulya Ganguli---
The recourse to emotional blackmail by Potti Sriramulu in the 1950s to carve out Andhra Pradesh from the Madras Presidency has been successfully emulated by another politician in the state. ...
New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) A hospital at Ayodhya rather than a temple or a mosque - as politicians play the blame game over the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition, that is the radical solution for peace offered by a section of the youth who were either not born or too young to know what was happening that December of 1992.
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By Amulya Ganguli---
President Barack Obama's letter to Asif Ali Zardari is probably one of the sternest written by one head of state to another. It isn't often that a president tells his counterpart in a supposedly friendly country that unless he ends his government's "ambiguity" in certain policy matters, in this case the "war on terror", then the US will have to do the job itself.
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By Soudhriti Bhabani - - - - -
Kolkata, Dec 2 (IANS) Pradip Das was shocked to hear from his office assistant that two bike-borne men had snatched Rs.250,000 from him when he went to deposit it in the bank. And another jolt came to the construction firm owner when police told him that the assailants were smart, educated English-speaking youths....
By Brigitte von Bulow ~ Miami, Nov. 5: An interesting week just passed. ~ The world is becoming friendlier because many more of us are now reaching out to others, helping, saying *hi how are you* and a new understanding is definitely noticable between all different cultures and nations. ...
By Ritu Sharma---
Port Blair, Nov 1 (IANS) As we drove from this capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands towards the Mayabandar forest reserve, four Jarawa children blocked the road with bamboo poles and demanded "paan" (betel leaf) and "biscut" (biscuits) in broken Hindi. The tribe with its population now down to 260 is getting dangerously dependent on handouts....
ये किसका तसव्वुर है ये किसका फ़साना है, जो अश्क़ हैं आँखों में तसबीह का दाना है ।
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मेरे दिल की है यही आरजू मुझे तू ही बस मिला करे यूही चाहे मुझको तामम उम्र, ना शिकायते गिला करे मेरी चाहतें मेरी ख्वाहिशें ...
Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization..? Answer: Princess Diana's death. Question: How come...? Answer: An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in ...
By Neeraj Sharma
एक लड़के को सेल्समेन के इंटरव्यू में इसलिए बाहर कर दिया गया क्योंकि उसे अंग्रेजी नहीं आती थी। लड़के को अपने आप पर ...
The Super Computer stood at the end of the Computer Company's production line. At which point the guided tour eventually arrived. The salesman stepped forward ...
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