01 Sep 2012Editorial

Non-alignment in a new light

for the 16th summit meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), a relic of the Cold War is again in the spotlight. Commentators have had yet another opportunity to dissect the usefulness or the lack thereof of NAM.It will be noted that when the heads of states return home after a three-day talkfest, the world will not have changed.would have spent perhaps a billion dollars for the pleasure of hosting...

Source : Times Of India | 265 Day(s) AgoCategory : Editorial

The Naroda Patia verdict has renewed public faith in the judicial system

years after the Gujarat killings, a special court in Ahmedabad has found 32 people guilty of premeditated violence in theof 99 Muslims in Naroda Patia, one of the many murderous sprees that made up the pogrom of 2002.This is a landmark judgment because in India the instigators of murderous communal violence are almost never held to account. A decade is a long time, but given that three decades have...

Source : Times Of India | 265 Day(s) AgoCategory : Editorial

Non-alignment in a new light

16th summit meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), a relic of the Cold War is again in the spotlight. Commentators have had yet another opportunity to dissect the usefulness or the lack thereof of NAM.It will be noted that when the heads of states return home after a three-day talkfest, the world will not have changed.would have spent perhaps a billion dollars for the pleasure of hosting the summit...

Source : Times Of India | 265 Day(s) AgoCategory : Editorial

Monsoon magic

Today, in drizzling rains and rumblings of a cloudy day/ Know not I, know not why, why on nothing does the mind stay/ With restless water laden winds, towards wondering clouds/ Speeds this mind, yearns this mind, longing to know paths of a flight of geese/ Time throbs to Rag Megha Mallhar all day longRain down your wisdom in sacred streams to carry me like an upturned leaf through the currents of this...

Source : Times Of India | 265 Day(s) AgoCategory : Editorial

Minister advises officers to be moderate in corruption

being questioned by a British parliamentary committee about graft allegations,remarked that he "stood amazed by my own moderation". Taking a leaf out of the book of the robber baron - who was described as "a tawny nabob with a bad liver and a worse" - UP's PWD minister Shivpal Singh Yadav, CM Akhilesh Yadav's uncle, recently advised officers in Etah to practise moderation in corruption.The minister...

Source : Times Of India | 265 Day(s) AgoCategory : Editorial

MS Dhoni says college attendance row involving Unmukt Chand reflects low priority for sports

Dhoni says college attendance row involving Unmukt Chand reflects low priority for sports, Team India skipper MS Dhoni has rightly said that the incident reflects a poor attitude towardsin this country. Unmukt was denied permission by his college - a premier education institution - to sit for half of his second semester exams due to a shortfall in his attendance. This has not only thrown Unmukt's academic...

Source : Times Of India | 265 Day(s) AgoCategory : Editorial

Curious case of mistaken identity

few days back, I was invited to my village to attend a function for inauguration of piped water supply. Mandatory pooja was performed of the pipe and tap in the Grampanchayat premises. The village sarpanch applied vermillion and placed some flowers on the pipe and tap; arti was done after which the valve was opened to release the water.This is a ritual we see so frequently, but it left me contemplating...

Source : Times Of India | 265 Day(s) AgoCategory : Editorial

Editorial Board: The GOP is wrong to say Obama cut nuclear weapons budget

displayComments:true!includes some scare talk. “The United States is the only nuclear power not modernizing its nuclear stockpile,” the platform warns. “It took the current administration just one year to renege on the President’s commitment to modernize the neglected infrastructure of the nuclear weapons complex — a commitment made in exchange for approval of the New Start treaty.”These statements...

Source : The Washington Post | 265 Day(s) AgoCategory : Editorial

Editorial Board: The GOP is wrong to say Obama cut nuclear weapons budget

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY platform includes some scare talk. “The United States is the only nuclear power not modernizing its nuclear stockpile,” the platform warns. “It took the current administration just one year to renege on the President’s commitment to modernize the neglected infrastructure of the nuclear weapons complex — a commitment made in exchange for approval of the New Start treaty.” Read...

Source : The Washington Post | 265 Day(s) AgoCategory : Editorial

New laws make divorce easier for women

RAMALLAH (West Bank) — For decades, Palestinian women seeking to divorce their husbands risked years of miserable, expensive litigation or lengthy domestic battles as they begged their spouses for permission to leave.On Thursday, Palestinian religious authorities announced sweeping new reforms of local divorce law that make it much easier for a woman to end her marriage. The rules have put the West...

Source : Khaleej Times | 265 Day(s) AgoCategory : Editorial

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