NPR Marketplace To Tackle Open Source Science

If there's going to be a "Science 2.0" you need raw data to be openly available, not restricted to expensive journals.  Janet Babin is interviewing scientists for her Marketplace series and it is discussed here.

Mayawati's Maya in Uttar (Utam) Pradesh

LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which was better known as the key representative of socially downtrodden and outcast Dalits has given the lion’s share of tickets for the forthcoming assembly election to Hindu upper caste candidates http://citizenxpress.com/blog/view/1262/

Bahadur Shah Zafar Waited For Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose for 90 Year

It was Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, a titan among India’s nationalist leaders, who turned the Mazar into a memorable spot of national pilgrimage. http://citizenxpress.com/blog/view/1293/

IIT-Mumbai Restricts Internet in Hostels

One of India's top engineering schools have banned the use of internet in hostels, stating that addiction to surfing and blogging was affecting the performance of student's, making them reclusive and even suicidal!! http://citizenxpress.com/blog/view/1286/

Chemistry Open Access Searching

Open access is extremely important, especially on a site like NowPublic.  This articles discusses getting access to open access science through various tools and sources and know what you can freely use and how you can use it.  It's great stuff for the science journalist...

Compulsory Voting: A tool to Complete Democracy

There are 239 countries in world map out of these 189 has democratic character in their governance, all international organizations like United Nations, WHO etc work as democratic unit to make them universal acceptant. Democracy is being considered the best form of all...

Citizen Journalism, Local Context, Fear

Some of us reacted to France's Law in Project, endangering CJ. In other NP articles, we tried to nuance this idea, suggesting we could be wrong. Today, we wish to detail our thoughts and highlight the importance of "local context". We will attempt describing a singular sign...

Hurricane Katrina: Big Broken Drive By

I was heading down into the Deep South to live out of my vehicle indefinitely, deep within a natural disaster zone. By that night I would finally be joining a group of proven nutcase art festival volunteers I had yet to meet. I trusted enough through past associations...

Child Trafficking Mostly Covers Adoption shields In India.

India is heralded in the international community as the land of mystics, tantalizing foreigners since ages with its exoticism. People are drawn from all over the world to experience the doctrine preached by the ascetics promising ‘Nirvana’. The magic of India has survived...

Teacher Charged With Kidnapping Student

Chandigarh, March 6: A student of Government Model Senior Secondary School at Sector 22 was allegedly “kidnapped” by her teacher on Monday. However, according to sources, the teacher and the student were having an affair and they might have eloped together.This Class X...

Bengalis Worship Mother Goddess, But Their Widows Mother's Home Is Varindavan

Today on International Women’s Day I would to draw your attention on the status of neglected Indian widows, because In terms of prevalence of widowhood, India ranks among the highest in the world. Varindavan which is known as the City of Widows has 16,000 suffering...