Change in policy to remove rural disparity During the last 10 years, over 18,000 farmers committed suicide. 40,000 farmers in Panjab killed themselves between 1988 and 2006 with an average of over 2,000 per year.
Egypt's exodus to Europe Thousands of young Egyptian men, no one knows, exactly how many, try every year to enter Europe illegally.
The reasons thousands of young Egyptian men go, are the same ones that drive illegal migrants from other parts of Africa: poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunity.
Where children lead the sanitation drive As an integral part of the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC), being implemented under the auspices of the state ministry of rural developments drinking water supply department, schools have been identified as the entry point for sanitation awareness.
The unending call of the gizmos The anxiety that prosperity and commerce would rot our moral fibre only worsened with the onset of commercial society as we know it.
Net musings
The 6 stages of e-mail E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I
Uncle Sam in Iraq... Donald Felt, Command Sgt Maj of the 3rd Brigade, visits troops at Forward Operating Base Warhorse in Baghdad, Iraq, dressed up as “Uncle Sam”, on Wednesday, the American Independence Day. AP
Why is Bangalore/ Karnataka turning into a hub of terror network? What should the authorities do to prevent the youth from becoming pawns in the hands of terrorist groups?
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