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Sep 15 2008
Musa Qala lies in northern Helmand province of Afghanistan and was once under Taleban. Eight months ago it was recaptured by the International Assistance Security Force (ISAF) and Afghan troops. Both Afghan government and British wanted to rebuild the...
Sep 15 2008
Inflation has spared none so far and no, Gods are not going to be spared either. Food prices have sky rocketed all over the globe in past few months and it is has hit Indians where it hurts the most. Indian devotees quite accustomed to bathe God in...
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Sep 15 2008
Morsal Obeidi was just 16, she wanted to live like the other girls in Germany. Free to make choices. But she paid dearly for aspiring to be free, her brother stabbed her 20 times. This honour killing right in the heart of Germany has sparked huge...
Sep 15 2008
Recently a new Thorium based research reactor went critical or as a put to layman, became fully operational at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai. This reactor hardly produces any heat or energy but yet it is a point of high achievement for...
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Sep 15 2008
Child marriages are still a tradition in Ethiopia. Young brides, even below 10 years of age, are married off to adolescent boys and thus the cycle of ignorance, poverty, health hazards continue. Even in the modern globalised world there are remote...
Sep 15 2008
UN has a very strong presence in conflict zone of Darfur, Sudan. UN’s World Food Program (WFP) is carrying out one of the largest food aid operation; United Nations-African Missions Joint Peacekeeping Force (UNAMID) has been trying to protect people...
Sep 15 2008
Lisbon Treaty is due to come to force on 1st January 2009. This treaty needs signatures of all 27 member states according to EU ruling. 18 countries have already given approval to the Treaty. Only Irish Republic held a referendum and the treaty was...
Sep 15 2008
Women, young girls and children are high risk targets in any conflicts and war. Their vulnerability makes them easy targets. They are scarred for life. Their suffering doesn’t end with the end of war, their lives stands totally devastated and...
Sep 14 2008
As opposition MDC mulls over possible pull-out from presidential run-off, President Mugabe has said that ‘Only God’ can remove him from office. But given the measures ZanuPF, along with state militia and police is taking, even ‘hands of God’...
Sep 14 2008
Cuil, meaning wisdom or knowledge in Gaelic and pronounced as ‘cool’, is the much hyped new search engine which was launched on Monday as a direct competition to Google! But it looks high only on hype and ambition and doesn’t come...