Chantal Valery Free them or put them on trial. Thus urges a petition to President Barack Obama over the prisoners held at Guantanamo, jailed and in limbo for more than a decade. The petition launched by Guantanamo’s former chief military prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis was signed by more than 145,500 people by Monday for the [...]
More than 300,000 babies die in India within 24 hours after they are born. In a nation that boasts and is touted to be a superpower in the future, this is shocking. India accounts for 29 per cent of all newborn deaths worldwide, according to the charity Save the Children. More than half of all [...]
We live in degrading times. Political morality has been given a R.I.P and we do have no qualm voting those who have been indicted by the judiciary or by the CBI. The clear affidavit of the CBI director to Supreme Court yesterday leaves no scope of doubts about the culpability of law minister and the [...]
All those issues connected with lifestyle and social mores are best left to be sorted out in cooperation with societal icons and social leaders. Banning them is undemocratic and ineffectual.
For decades, not a single woman in the dusty Pakistani village of Mateela surrounded by orange trees has voted. And they aren’t likely to in next week’s parliamentary election either. The village’s men have spoken. “It’s the will of my husband,” said one woman, Fatma Shamshed. Mateela is one of 564 out of the 64,000 [...]
Kapil Sibal is a true Congress man. And what’s the definition of a true Congress man? First and foremost, he or she must be adept at singing paeans about the Gandhi family, for that is the biggest requirement to be a humble Congress party worker. And he or she must be vitriolic when it comes [...]
The unrelenting heat is making life near impossible during the day, during which even thoughts of forays into the open are dreaded. The heat in Hyderabad is of a peculiar sort: when inside, it drains you of your fluids in sweat. The feeling is an awful one, stuffy and sticky. And when outside it just heats one [...]
At least eight professional footballers have revealed to colleagues that they are gay, but have refused to go public because they fear a backlash from fans, reports the Observer. This is a sad state of affairs because along with the weight of the responsibility of their game, players will have to constantly guard themselves against [...]
Speculation is rife that actress-politician Jayaprada, currently a member of Lok Sabha from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh, is planning to come back to her home state Andhra Pradesh and join the Congress party. Following her meeting with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi last week, the actress is reported to have expressed her desire to contest the [...]
Imran Khan is embarked on a journey to bring his people a new Pakistan. But he would sooner admit that winning the World Cup was easier. Though years have deepened the lines on his forehead, he has not lost any of the skills with which he led from the front and made champions of a [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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