Bangladesh crackdown on bloggers escalates
byBangladesh should immediately drop charges against and release four bloggers and a newspaper editor arrested this month – Human Rights Watch
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Smart cards for pregnant women, welcome step against female foeticide
byA sharp decline in the child sex ratio in Jammu and Kashmir has prompted Committee on Subordinate Legislation to table a report recommending that…
Kullu Manali farmers left out of valleys economic growth
byManali: Majority of the Kullu- Manali valley population are farmers who live in villages and only few of the benefits of economic activities of…
True music lovers listen to records in digital age: Goutam Ghose
byDespite digitisation in music and films, renowned filmmaker Goutam Ghose feels true music lovers still love listening to gramophone records. “True music lovers still…
‘Late-life crisis’ affecting people over 60
byOne-third of people in their sixties go through a “late-life crisis” due to bereavement, personal illness or injury, psychologists in London have said. Around…
A bus journey and a gift of life
byKochi (Kerala): Thirty-year-old Rasad Muhammad would never have thought that his desperate search for a kidney would end in a bus journey. Muhammad, whose…
Narrative on Modi that will annoy supporters, detractors (Book Review)
byBook: “The NaMo Story, A Political Life”; Author: Kingshuk Nag; Publisher: Roli Books; Pages: 188; Price: Rs 295. If Narendra Damodardas Modi reads the…
Why so serious? Add fun, spunk to everyday things!
byNew Delhi: How about using an ashtray in the shape of a squat toilet, a mini bean bag as a phone rest, or a…
The Broken Column of Stavanger brings Kapurthala to mind
byStavanger (Norway) : While back in India one recalls the sculptors that were got commissioned by the then Maharaja of Kapurthala at various places…
Old Stavanger, Norway has a glimpse of rural Uttarakhand, Himachal
byStavanger (Norway) : While the Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock) and the Kejarag, a large stone wedged between two mountains about 1000 metres above the fjord,…