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Right-to-Information (RTI) movement brewing in UP: By Anjali Singh

-RTI Service centres will be set up in UP.
-200 computer cells will be constituted aswell in various districts to provide assistance to people wanting to get information online.
-Govt staff will be trained to update and feed the websites providing information of various departments.

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Kashmir: conflict in a peaceful valley: By Ershad Mahmud

The new US Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, identified Kashmir as one of the world’s hot spots and bracketed it with contested regions such as the Balkans and Golan Heights during her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations committee last month.
Likewise, in an interview with Tim

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Turkish women battle for rights: By Evre Kaynak

In the past two decades, a movement of some 30 Turkish non-governmental women’s rights organisations has spearheaded legal, political and social change to promote equality and eliminate violence against women. Change, however, is not coming easily as these NGOs try to battle ingrained traditional vi

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Agriculture extension systems should be strengthened in India: By Amit Dwivedi

The arrangements for agricultural extension in India have grown, over the last five decades, in terms of activities, organizational types and available manpower. However, public investments in agriculture, (investments in irrigation, rural roads, rural electrification, storage, marketing, agricultur

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Indonesian peacebuilders, please stand up: By Raja Juli Antoni

Like the rest of the world, Indonesians watched recent events in Gaza with concern. Thousand of Indonesians participated in demonstrations and fundraising events. These activities were, to some extent, important ways to show disagreement with Israeli military actions and call for an immediate ceasef

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Pen pals for Muslim-Western understanding: By Kendra Lahue

In second grade I had a pen pal named Annie from Simsbury, Connecticut. She was a student at one of the schools in my town.
We wrote letters to each other every week and talked about our hobbies, families and schools. At the end of the year, we met in person and I discovered I had a new friend.
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The only answer to "Christianland" dispute; By Jeanne Swartz

Bishop Timetheous presents some key points to rebut Mr. Durrani's suggestion that setting up a “Christianland” in Pakistan would be the ultimate answer to stop persecution against Christians.
However, I truly expected more from a Bishop than a simple tongue lashing and “worldly” reasoning. For y

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President Zardari says “Pakistan’s survival is at stake” By Bashy Quraishy

President Zardari says “Pakistan’s survival is at stake” By Bashy Quraishy

“Taleban have established themselves in large parts of Pakistan and are trying to take over the country. Pakistan’s survival is at stake” So said the President Of Pakistan Mr Asif Ali Zardari to an American TV Channel w

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High on Afghan opium: By Jonathan Power

Quite right – the Obama administration is gearing up to pressure the Europeans to put more men in boots on the ground in Afghanistan.
Quite right – the Europeans don't want to engage in a war of attrition – à la Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s or like the United States in Vietnam a decade and

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February 13 Birth Anniversary of Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Contextualizing Poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz Or Iqbal and Faiz: A Few Similarities: By Mohammed Akmal Pasha

Faiz in terms of essence that emanates from his poetry shoulders the responsibility of those chosen few social intellectuals who out of their mystic and not sadistic predisposition have endeavored to reform collective social conscience. Brass of such humanists could be Persian poets Saadi and Rumi i

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Our response to terror: By Dr Sandeep Pandey

In the clamour for asking the Pakistani government to take decisive action against the terrorist organizations in that country and shut down their camps we forget one thing. The civilian government in Pakistan is probably simply not in a position to do what we except from it. It is a well known fact

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Children of a lesser God? Abandoned and stricken too!: By Anjali Singh

In the first ever incident of its kind the state of Uttar Pradesh is struggling with its growing disabled population. As grim as that sounds the fact remains that a single seven year old blind and deaf destitute child has become a huge challenge for not only the government of UP but its citizen's at

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Afghan civil society speak out on US policy: By Lisa Schirch

As policymakers in Washington assess the best way forward in Afghanistan, they should heed advice from thousands of Afghan civil society leaders working to improve their country. While divided in their support for a troop surge, Afghan civil society leaders are unanimous in wanting a shift in the US

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Kala Azar patients lack adequate diagnosis and drugs: By Bobby Ramakant

At the fourth Leishmaniasis World Congress in Lucknow, India, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said that there is a serious need to expand availability of effective treatments and diagnosis for visceral leishmaniasis (kala azar) in order to reduce the present burden of disease and resistance to treatm

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In Response to "Common Values of Abrahamic Traditions" article: By Jeanne Swartz

Respectfully, Mr. Munjid, I can not agree with your supposition that the main message of Hijra, Hannukah and Christmas are all equally about “spiritual breakthrough........starting point for the establishment of a new social order that is supported not by blood, ethnic and cultural affiliation, but



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"Trial of Pakistani Christian Nation" By Nazir S Bhatti

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