 Pinki – What the media should have done Pinki Pramanik, female track athlete who won laurels for the country in international meets like Asian Games and Commonwealth Games, was arrested on June 14 over accusations of rape by her female companion. Many of the...   The Bush house in London was commissioned and built by an American, Irving T Bush. Designed by an American architect and constructed by an UK company, it was visualized as a major trade centre for Anglo American companies....  Here is a man who loves to walk and is believed to be the world's longest uninterrupted circumnavigation on foot. 11 years on foot, travelling across the globe, tearing apart 54 pairs of shoes across 64 countries, Quebec...  Marx and Marxism are much in vogue today in US. If you replace 'bourgeoisie' with 'corporations' or 'the one percent' (from the Wall Street Occupiers' slogan) in The Communist Manifesto , it would seem as if Marx was...  Solitude kills. Who says ? Here is a Japanese man of 76 who is leading a lonely life in a tropical island for about 20 years. Masafumi Nagasaki, shunned public life working in the entertainment industry as a photographer...  Peter Van Buren is a US State Department official who has worked extensively with the military in many parts of the world. He has received awards for his humanitarian works such as helping an American rape victim in Japan...  A friendly elephant in the neighbourhood South Asia is a problematic region, the least integrated part of the world – and India is at the centre of the picture. The second most populous country have sensitve, if not outright hostile relations with most of... 
Love Jesus and hate the church!
An ordinary 22 year youth named Jefferson Bethke, recorded a video of himself reciting a poem he wrote and posted it on Youtube on January second week. That evening he had a bet with his room mates on the number of...  In Kerala, a 150-year-old earthen dam is creating panic among people. Mullaperiyar dam situated in a tremor-prone place could cause death of hundreds of thousands if it breaks. But it is next to impossible to destruct the...  Online piracy is not that bad! US congressional attempt to make laws to protect intellectual property and stop online piracy has unleashed a storm of protest all over United States. The bills for SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect...  Imran Khan - Can he bring a change? We don't know whether anybody laughed when Imaran Khan, the aging cricket super star in late '80s, claimed in 1992 that he was going to win the World Cup that year. But he did win and became a national hero. After retirement...  Party is over for foreign car makers Not long ago European luxury carmakers produced models for the super rich of North America, Europe and the Middle East. They sold units by tens of thousands in these markets. But the picture has changed...  Free distance education from Stanford university The Stanford University in California is one among the noted universities of the world. As many as 50 persons from this university, set up in 1891, who were teachers, student or officials bagged Nobel Prize. The alumnus...  A report, which changed the history Bangladeshis are now celebrating the 40th anniversary of the birth of their country. But what led to their freedom was an article published in the UK's Sunday Times, which exposed the brutality of Pakistan's suppression...  Move over BRICs, it is the time for TIMBIs Jim O'Neill, an economist working for Goldman Sachs coined the term BRICs on 30 November 2001. In the coming decade Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) will dominate global economy, he said. A decade has passed...  ( Page 2 of 17 )  |
