'I will not be remote-controlled or bullied by anyone' Goa's new Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, a former BJP man now with the Congress, spoke to Devika Sequeira of Deccan Herald about his political leanings and his plans for the state.
Checking population Census figures show that various population control steps have lowered the growth rate from 2.20 in 1971 to 1.93 in 2001.
Being partners not patrons Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal, who was privileged enough to attend the G-8 summit, urges for a new age of interdependence among nations to address global problems.
At the Elysee, seeing a new Camelot Unlike the old-fashioned Chirac, the new President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, is armed with obvious ambition, has a hyperactive style and close friendships with some of France's richest men.
I am, therefore I need to dance There has been a longstanding conflict over public dancing between the forces of order on the one hand, and the deep human craving for free-spirited joy on the other, says Barbara Ehrenreich.
A scuba diver brings out bottles of Anjou-Brissac off the coast of Saint-Malo, on Sunday, after being immersed for a year as an experiment of the wine-maturing process. Six experts, who recognized clearly the immersed wines during a blind test, declared that the maturing process was slower in the sea. AFP
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