Today is the 20th anniversary of UN’s Convention on Rights of the Child and various ceremonies are being held all over the world to mark the event. This Convention on Rights of the Child (CRC) was signed in 1989 and it endorses and guarantees basic right of all children to life, education, play and protection [...]

Reports and sources are hinting that Obama will concede to demand of Gen. Stanley Mc Chrystal and send nearly 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan and that too with plans of longer stay. White House has denied the reports about any such decision.
With war situation worsening in Afghanistan and number of casualties going higher every passing [...]

There are quite a few conflict zones in the world today where everyday civilians are being caught in the crossfire, their villages are devastated due to bombing and homes are reduced to rubble. There is no normalcy and hence no regular source of livelihood and income. People live in rehabilitation and refugee camps. More than [...]

Chandrayaan – the famed Indian mission to the moon has come up with startling evidence of existence of water on the lunar surface. The Indian moon mission had to be aborted after they lost contact with the spacecraft. But findings of one of the probes show that Moon soil is indeed damp. This crucial finding [...]

The world’s few remaining billionaires all over the globe are turning into eco-barons. The Sunday Times had published first Green List of top 100 rich who are investing in some green technology or the other.  Environment is taking precedence in business too. Economics is turning into Geonomics.
Yes, world wealth has gone down with recession and [...]

BJP, the main oppostion party in India has finally stopped hiding its communal feathers and has openly acted against one of its own senior leaders Jaswant Singh for writing a book praising Pakistan’s founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah who was also one of the principal architects of bloody India-Pakistan Partition.
The fact that Jaswant Singh had blamed [...]

The commuter bike of the future you always dreamt of is finally here. It counts cals as you sweat and pedal, plays music as well as has asolar-powered motor for times when you are exhausted and need some recusing. The famous Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman unveiled the design of the future. It is expected that [...]

Burmese Court and Burma’s military dictatorship did what the world and Aung San Suu Kyi herself had been speculating. They found her guilty of violating terms of previous house arrest and sentenced her to 18 more months of house arrest.  She had committed ‘crime’ of giving shelter to an eccentric American. Meanwhile American John Yettaw [...]

Is Russia going back to its old ways of constant surveillance of its critics and gagging all the criticisms? Did Russia hack into Twitter, Facebook and Live Journal to target one pro-Georgian blogger who was revealing truth about Russian-Georgian war in his blogs?
Well, pro-Georgian blogger, Cyxymu, who was primary target of the hackers seems to [...]

The most shocking reality of Ceausescu’s regime in Romania was discovery of thousands of children who were found locked away in some 600 notorious institutions. Who were these children? They were victims of Ceausescu’s policy against contraception. Romanian couples were forced to have more children and when they could not afford to raise them, they [...]