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Woodstock students show CARE for the community

By Woodstock School Thu, May 24, 2012 3:09PM UTC View Comments

As part of Woodstock’s commitment to give back to the local Himalayan community, the school’s Care and Restoration of the Environment (CARE) programme allows students to get involved in a wide range of community projects. Earlier this semester a group of us from Grade 4 in the junior school went to the popular pilgrimage spot at the Sirkhanda Devi...

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Burma: Speaking truth to power(cuts)

By Francis Wade Tue, May 22, 2012 12:37PM UTC View Comments

It’s always been about power in Burma, whether it be the Machiavellian governance of its leaders, or the blackouts that for decades have plagued the energy-rich country. The ties that bind the two are intrinsic – back in 2007, it was dramatic fuel price hikes that prompted tens of thousands of monks and civilians to...

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India’s Lokpal Bill – no early law in sight

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Tue, May 22, 2012 3:01AM UTC View Comments

India’s anti-graft legislation will take some more time, maybe never even become law. On May 21 the Centre manoeuvred to stall the law and referred the matter to another sub-committee of Parliament – this time a Select Committee of Rajya Sabha or the Upper House. There is a deadline – the “first day of the...

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Mamata Banerjee – time for her to stop being herself

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Mon, May 21, 2012 1:14AM UTC View Comments

I have nothing to add to the general consensus that Didi has acted like a large grotesque animal in a shop named after a country from where a dramatis personae from the past has given Mamata Banerjee many a sleepless nights besides of course getting her goat most recently on live TV. I have long...

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Indian villagers greet daughters with fruit trees

By Asia Sentinel Sun, May 20, 2012 4:27PM UTC View Comments

A newborn girl is brought to a ward from the operation theater at a government hospital in Morena in the Central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh. The starving girls point to a painful reality revealed in India's most recent census: Despite a booming economy and big cities full of glittering malls and luxury cars, the country is failing its girls. Early results show India has only 914 girls under age 6 for every 1,000 boys. The census in Morena showed that for every 1,000 boys only 825 girls in the district made it to their sixth birthdays, down from an already troubling 829 a decade ago. Pic: AP

A way to slow India’s appalling female infanticide rate A small, nondescript village in Bihar may have found a way to ameliorate the appalling slaughter of baby girls while tackling global warming and climate change at the same time with a simple solution that incorporates tradition as well as knowledge of farming. The flood-ravaged districts...

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