2010 to be declared 'year for affordable housing'

NI Wire,    Wed, 21 Jan 2009
The National Conference of Ministers of Housing, Urban Development and Municipal Administration has recommended that the year 2010 be declared as the "Year for Affordable Housing".

India needs to redefine democratic pluralism

Syed Ali Mujtaba,    Wed, 21 Jan 2009
India celebrates its 59th republic day on 26th January 2009. However, even after such a long time, India is unable to define a correct roadmap of nation building. Societal brakes are pulling down the rapid scientific advancement and

Separatists call general strike on Republic Day

Nava Thakuria,    Wed, 21 Jan 2009
As usual, the separatist groups of Northeast India have imposed a boycott call on the forthcoming Republic Day (of India) celebration in the region. In a Solidarity Statement issued by the banned armed groups

A new era begins with Obama

NI Wire,    Wed, 21 Jan 2009
Defying severe cold, below zero degree Celsius temperature, above two million cheerful people thronged Washington before dawn and waited patiently and passionately to witness the historic moment when Barack Obama was sworn in as

Maoists behind killing of Nepali Journalist?

Nava Thakuria,    Tue, 20 Jan 2009
As Nepal welcomes 2009 as a secular democratic republic after shedding its earlier identity of a Hindu kingdom, bad news poured from the land of Maoists. The first two weeks of the new year brought the news of killing of

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