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Maximo Torero Inter Press Service This year’s Human Rights Day marks the 74th year since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an international document that enshrines
A friend of mine sent me a forward today, purely in jest I think, which got me thinking. It went like this, ‘When someone asks, ‘Where is your festive spirit?’ … Is it wrong to point to the liquor cabin-
N Thomas Lotha Dimapur It is a Godsend blessing to be an executive officer in Nagaland for 35 long years privileged by the state government in many ways. Those lucky people, after enjoying their comforta
Thalif Deen Inter Press Service A head of state who presided over an authoritarian regime in Southeast Asia, was once asked about rigged elections in his country. “I promised I will give you
Real beauty, is not what you see outside, but real beauty is inside as this story related by a lady shows:‘Our house was directly across Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the
At the age of seventy-five my father was a computer wizard. In fact I remember so well dad teaching me the basics of the machine and its technology. He was a man who never slipped into a mode of ‘so much and
Asad Mirza IANS Occupying the Presidency of the G20 and UNSC offers India a unique chance to leave its legacy and make the voice of the Global South and developing world heard at these two august fora. B
Zoya GhoshalVocaloid. An interesting term, right? Probably a word you never heard of before. But the term ‘vocal’ should ring a few bells.A Vocaloid, in essence, is a new type of voice synthesizing technolo-
Amarnath Halember IANSlife Every morning the first thing on our minds is 'What's for breakfast?' But the most important meal of the day as we know it today was not always part of our
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It was the silver wedding anniversary celebrations of a Punjabi couple I went for. As I watched them both, I realized how much the husband relied on his wife.I walked to the bar and as usual the men folk were g-
Prof Mithilesh Kumar Sinha Department of Economics, NU Lumami With the first cries of a new-born baby on 15th of November 2022 the United Nations celebrated the "Day of 8 Billion” on which the wo
It’s the beginning of December, the Christmas month, and as I think of the birth of Jesus in a lowly manger, where cows and goats and horses were kept, I find on that exact spot in Bethlehem, a cathedral has
It was a few years ago I landed at the hospital where my wife is a doctor to meet the mother of a baby who had been born with a physical deformity. The child’s grandmother was sobbing, “Why?” she wept,-
KD Singh “A recent survey has found that students who studied journalism as their college majors regretted their decision the most and would jump at the opportunity to go back and take up a different d
A friend called me the other day, and I pleaded I was too busy to meet him, “Balance your life Bob,” he said, and proceeded to tell me a story:“A long time ago, there was an Emperor who told his hor
He called me the other day, “Bob,” he whispered, “my blood pressure’s gone up, I feel my head’s going to burst. I listened and advised him as best as I could. He was a successful businessman, but I ha
Something doing the rounds of WhatsApp forwards is of India marching forward with gigantic steps, because a billionaire in India is now the third richest man in the world! From potholed roads, broken bridges, p-
Sreejith Balasubramanian IANS Food inflation has always been a wild card. In October, food and beverages component of Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 7 per cent y/y. It had averaged 7.6 per ce
