'Police should act as protectors of the victims of trafficking' South Asia is a high-volume source, transit and destination region for trafficked persons, according to Gary Lewis, India Representative of the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime (UNODC).
Return of the far-Right Some quasi-liberals continuously ask how we can be tolerant with people who preach intolerance --by whom they mean, of course, Muslims. A better question could be: to what extent are those who profess tolerance really tolerant?
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Brand yoga, with care Yoga should be branded as a means to achieve self-development and not as a means to propagate a particular religion.
Unification of Iraq: Make walls, not war Those who still favour a centralised state for Iraq like to insist that partition would further destabilise the country.
Porsche may control VW The Volkswagen Law, which the European Union's highest court The European Court of Justice has ruled illegal, was introduced in 1960 when the German car giant Volkswagen Group was first privatised.
Expensive politics... Election workers arrange ballot boxes inside a polling centre in suburban Manila, Philippines, on Sunday. Police forces are placed on high security alert ahead of nationwide village elections, which authorities fear could be disrupted by Communist guerrillas or used by them to gain local power.AP
With the Left parties rejecting any compromise on the nuclear deal with the United States, should the UPA government dump the deal and move ahead? Deccan Herald invited its readers to express their views on the subject. Many readers were of the opinion that the UPA government should ignore the Left’s objections and go ahead with the deal. However, some others held that the Left’s concerns were justified and opposed the deal.
