A Human Rights Crime The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished.
CELESTIAL HIDE-AND-SEEK Mars is going to provide two good opportunities for sky-gazers this month. The hide and seek drama called occultation will be enacted on May 10
Great Aussie rope trick... Children skip rope in a gym in Sydney, Australia, on Friday in an attempt to break the Guinness World record for the amount of people skipping at the same time. School kids around Australia are hoping they will set a new record of 55,000 skippers, jumping well over the old mark of 7,632. AP
Are political parties really serious about Women’s Reservation Bill? Is 33 per cent reservation realistic? Is the demand for quota within quota justified?
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