Marking the Global HIV/AIDS Day on Monday, patients and activists asked the Pakistan government to tackle the menace head-on because the socio-economic situation of the country, according to them, provided the ideal breeding ground for AIDS."The socio-economic situation of...
" Woman Risks Her Life for the Wolf Man She Loves There is hunger in the forest at night. A wild cry is heard beyond the trees as darkness falls. It is the witching hour of stealth and surprise,...
" Every 20th person in Pakistan is suffering from eye diseases and there is a pressing need to rescue people from this menace, says Lt Gen (retired) Jahandad Khan, founder and president of Al Shifa Trust, an eye hospital. He says there were 1.7 million blind in Pakistan...
To an extent, news functions as entertainment, whether we admit it or not. However, the old adage remains true: if it bleeds, it leads. So, what happens when we read a news story that A) doesn't affect us...
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"Thursday, January 17, 2008
Unsafe at any price: World's Cheapest Car Environmentally Costly
By Praful Bidwai
NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (IPS) - Nothing has generated as much hyperbole in the global automobile industry in recent years as the unveiling, last week, of an ultra-cheap...
What's the world coming to when you can't go to market without being accosted by a gang of monkeys? "Just weeks after the Indian capital's deputy mayor toppled to his death fighting off a pack of monkeys, the...
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"SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Police in Indian Kashmir usually accustomed to fighting separatist militants have a new target in their sights -- teenagers canoodling in parks, restaurants and at Internet cafes. The crackdown aims to curb "immoral activities", a senior...
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"Several legislators criticized the Indian government in Parliament on Wednesday for failing to control the growing number of marauding monkeys in the country's capital, a news report said.
Battalions of simians...
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I was interested to read this today - especially after listening to a program about school bullying via text message. It seems it is not uncommon for (mainly) girls to send threatening messages, including...
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"NAMIB DESERT, Namibia -- The blonde in the cowboy hat stepped forward with slow, swaggering menace, her boots crunching audibly on the sand below. As the camera zoomed tight on her green zombie eyes, the desert...
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This cracks me up - a call from the Health Minister to run workshops in making vegetables and fruits less scary by showing how to peel them."Caroline Flint called on supermarkets to mount in-store demonstrations...
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