As the BJP government presents the federal budget today in Parliament, one is reminded of the famous saying, "You can fool some people all the time but not all people all the time".  It seems that this time there will be nothing new left to be presented during the upcoming Union Budget. Most of the things to be presented by the Finance Minister have gradually been placed even before the actual budget could see the light of the day (on 10 July). In fact, the entire stretch since the G...

Survival has never seen such a difficult battle as with urbanization, with the latter forcing a retreat on the former to the periphery of urban territory. The battle is of the weak and oppressed against the mighty and powerful; like David versus Goliath. It’s a struggle for securing the rights which are being denied. As urbanization progresses, spreading further interior, it u...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, public facilities in the poorest districts of India were few and far between. Most people were left to their own devices and they lived in the shadow of hunger, insecurity and exploitation, with no public support in their hour of n...

At the far flung corner of Asia, in the waters of South China Sea, military maneuvers wage on among the nations who want to lay claim on the strategic location. On the face of it, the very notion of creation of territorial military zone seems a bit strange. Why does a nation want to expand its territory over water? The answer lies beneath the ocean.

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The case of ethanol as an alternative fuel source has already proved its success in the American continent. The United States is the largest producer of ethanol fuel followed by Brazil. Together both the countries accounted for 87.1% of global ethanol fuel production in 2011. Brazil, particularly, is the first country to have a sustainable bio-fuel economy and one of the largest and most successful bio-f...

Scars run deep in the lives of the poor who are caught in the debt cycle, thanks to numerous microcredit lenders in the hinterlands of Bangladesh. Rural poor are being forced to sell of their organs, in return of ready cash that is used to repay the debts of the mirco-lenders.

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