Jan 31 2009
Female infanticide has been prevalent since the days of ignorance in pre-Islamic Arabia as women have, unfortunately, always been considered as unwanted ‘beasts of burden’. It is still being practiced in this ‘civilized’ age in a subtle and...
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Jan 31 2009
Hinduism, like other religions, has been misused to justify the oppression of women. But properly understood, it is a challenge to sexism as well as to the oppression of the unborn. Indeed, some Hindus have noted the karmic link between the.The Case of...
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Jan 9 2009
A little-known Brazilian farming town with sugar cane wealth is set to upstage Rio de Janeiro by erecting a statue of Christ that will eclipse its famous equivalent atop Rio’s Corcovado mountain. The Christ statue in Sertaozinho, northwest of Sao...
Jan 9 2009
The craze for touch-screen gadgets, sparked by Apple Inc’s popular iPhone, is raising worries that a whole generation of consumer electronics will be out of the reach of the blind. Motown icon Stevie Wonder and other advocates came to the...
Jan 9 2009
Barack Obama will be “nerd-in-chief” when he takes office as U.S. president this month, according to Marvel Comics, which is putting him on the cover of its next “Spider-Man” comic. The special edition of the weekly Spider-Man...
Jan 9 2009
Musician Christopher Sands has suffered from hiccups every day for the past 22 months, and they show no sign of stopping. Sands has struggled to sleep, eat and hold down food for nearly two years due to the problem. The 24-year-old has tried all...
Dec 29 2008
If you believe Iraq was attacked for oil, then this is the reason for Mumbai attacks. Plain, simple and definitive. Puppet pakistani jihadis were used by US arm industry which needs to sell its wares somewhere. This news is much more than coincidence....
Dec 29 2008
How true this guy is. The recruiting mantra from 2004-2007 might be summed up as: “Skeptics and naysayers need not apply.” Now that so many institutions have crumbled, basically due to a lack of questioning and doubt-raising, maybe common sense,...
Dec 29 2008
Do not get frustrated by the initial picture. This is a serious news. Read till the end. Basically, MERCs are replaced as status symbols by these now for affluent people. How can I get entry here? This is something which is of my taste
Dec 29 2008
Read this to notice few things like: —When greed takes over, even the best ones falls from grace. —When money-makers (finance team) take precedence over money-creators (engineers), what can happen? —When something is too good to be...