Numbers offer complicated story of health care law

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government churns out tons of numbers, but here’s one you won’t see: 0.0002. That’s the percentage of estimated online visitor...

HUMANITARIANISM – THE METAPHOR FOR PROGRESS IN 2014

You have no need to go anywhere. Journey into yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendour of your own light – Rumi

As curtains fall on 2013, l...

TRUE REVIEW: MAHABHARAT (TELEVISION)

MAHABHARAT, A TIMELESS FLAVOUR

It has barely been three months since Star Plus started telecast of the 21st century’s rendition of Mahabharat. The producers a...

Twilight’s Peter Facinelli Honors Leaders In Fight Against Childhood Cancer

Aflac, the number one provider of supplemental insurance in the United States, will present its 2013 Duckprints Awards to local heroes for their role in fighting against ch...

What's Poverty Got to Do With It?

The world’s poverty benchmark is an income less than US $2 (about 300 Naira) per day and by that statistic about 50 percent of the World’s 7 billion people live...

Of Khobragade, Richards, Equality, Fairness & Uniformity

I’ve been following the Devyani Khobragade story since its emergence at the prime centre of global media, and to me, it smacks of one more gaping hole, bigger than th...

China building fourth Antarctic base to enhance research into climate change, other topics

Growing scientific power China has begun constructing its fourth Antarctic research base to enhance studies into climate change and other fields, state media reported Thurs...

Amazon condom factory: A sustainable way to profit from Brazil's forests

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More than a million signed up for health insurance, says Obama

More than a million people have now managed to sign up for health insurance on the state and federal websites — more than 500,000 on the federal HealthCare.gov websit...