Stop burning holes in the sky- go for energy efficient small cars

Car is a modern day convenience enabling faster transport. Millions of gas guzzling personal cars on roads may be status symbols that need to be discarded if we need to do our bit in reducing global warming.  According to some estimates there are as many as 600 million...

Climate change- Nepal cabinet plans meet on Everest base camp

Recently Maldives cabinet met under water attracting world wide attention as the Island nation is likely to be submerged and disappear by the end of this century. Nepali Cabinet is meeting today at the base camp of everest hills to highlight the dangers of climate change...

Emergency contraceptive pills – benefitting whom?

While modern medicines are indispensable for curing us from illness and disease, all the medical formulations that the drug manufacturers market are not  helping the social or individual health cause. Among them are the formulations that prevent unwanted pregnancy as a...

Let religions help world peace

According to news reports, top Iranian spiritual leader asked British Muslims to quit the army saying that their involvement in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is forbidden by Islam. He believes that Islam and politics are intermixed because religion can not be ignorant of...

2012 or 2212 the end is near unless we all act.

There are lots of rumors going round that the world will not last beyond the year 2012. While we may dispute the on the date, yet we are heading fast towards destruction due to global warming effect and excessive abuse of natural resources. Studies show that the Oil and Gas...

Credit Card Interest/ Service Rates - Making a Killing

Shopping for goods and services with credit cards give a false notion of eating the cake and paying later. As we routinely use credit cards for purchases, we find it difficult to clear the entire dues shown in the monthly billing and resort to paying 'minimum due' amount...

Brazilian Plane Crash Kills 16

According to a BBC report, an Embraer Plane carrying 20 people crashed due to heavy rains and bad weather killing 16 people. The plane was on a flight from Coari to Manaus and the heavy rain and bad weather forced the pilot to force land the plane on the River Manacapuru in...

Indian boxers strike gold at Youth CommonWealth Games

"Cousin of Vijender Singh, Balwinder Beniwal, lived up to expectations as Indian boxers shone in the rings with three gold and one silver in the third Commonwealth Youth Games on Friday at Pune. It was Nanao Singh Thokchom of Army Sports Institute who opened the account...

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