Does the death sentence, executed in 20 seconds and which frees a convict from any burden of crime he has committed, act as a greater deterrent than a life time in jail without any hope of ever coming out on parole or bail....
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With the United States shifting the focus of its foreign policy to the Asia Pacific region, Myanmar has gained a tremendous strategic importance. ...
Even eight decades later, one of the most widely-travelled Indian writers, Rahul Sankrityayan, is close to the heart of the Chinese people....
About 86 million more rural Indians have been counted as illiterate than the 2011 census data found....
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What is the Greek referendum? How did the crisis there start? What next? Will India be impacted? IANS presents a primer on the crisis that is rocking not just Europe and its currency but also threatens to spill over to the global economy:...
Winston Churchill's most outstanding contribution during World War II, according to President John F. Kennedy, was that he "mobilised the English language and sent it into battle". But his compatriot, P.G. Wodehouse, went one better, in making the language an unsurpassed medium for some of the most inspired comic writing ever possi...
An Australian photographer has clicked a breathtaking image of the International Space Station (ISS) as it was passing over the Moon....
