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...

Bangalore needs Rs 80,000 crore over 5 years to sustain itself: State urban development secretary

Bangalore city needs at least Rs 80,000 crore over the next five years to be sustainable. It needs this much for infrastructure, road development, drainage and several deve...

Industry must throw out its casting couch

Yesterday, this paper ran a front-page report about a television cameraman promising a young aspiring actress a break in television serials. His promises of course came on ...

Thought Factory : Tedious Terrains

“Landscape is   . . .   
devoid of chance, and every falling leaf fulfils, as it falls, one of the greatest laws of the universe.”

–...

OF LGBT: PIGS, MONKEYS, ZEALOTS AND THE SHAME UPON US!

“The next time you have oral sex or masturbate, know that you are committing a crime. The section 377 criminalizes all except penis-vaginal sex. Think about it. And i...

Odisha set to implement Climate Change Action Plan

With Climate Change becoming a phenomenon affecting almost every part of the world, local governments are taking it into their hands to turn things around. Odisha, a state ...

Cuba: The Meaning of Human Rights

Cuba, a communist country has been showing great progress in the fields of development and human rights. Some statistics that show this rise are as follows:
As a resul...