Technology keeps a whistleblower alive Jayashree built her Web site, fightcorruption.wikidot.com, with help from her son, a doctorate student in computer science at Delaware State University. On the site she chronicles her husbands case and criticizes the government.
Is higher education doomed? With FDI flowing into education, foreign colleges are mushrooming in Bangalore. Their admission and appointment criteria, and syllabii are different. In view of the city's head-hunters, thousands of degree-holders that these colleges turn out are unemployable. Why is this disparity allowed to thrive?
Dangerous little words Its true that identifying suspects is crucial to their being apprehended. Except of course, in this case, the suspects had been apprehended already and were lying face down, yards from the cameras. So Asian was apparently not an attempt to alert the nation to the fleeing criminals.
The universe looks like a fix, but did God fix it? Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.
The stiff upper lip
The defining trait of Britishness is our sense of humour, but although we all tell funny stories and jokes, not all of us get a laugh from them, said Dr Marie Gillespie, professor of sociology and anthropology at the Open University.
Protesting journalists... Employees of the Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi including several others from the Malayalam press took out a ‘silent march’ in New Delhi from Kerala House to Jantar Mantar, to protest the recent attack on the Mathrubhumi office in Kerala. AP
The State government has been recovering hundreds of acres of encroached lands, especially in and around Bangalore, and disposing them off through auctions, inspite of not getting a good price. Is it the right move or are there better options?
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