Climate change: India has an advantage over the West Way back in 1997, rich countries agreed to make cuts in their emissions. Evidence is mounting that they have not been able to stick to their 'meagre' commitments.
Voyeurism through net Last month Facebook unveiled Beacon, a programme that alerts users to their friends' online purchases and ignited a brushfire of protest.
Japan's whaling shame The Nisshin Maru, an 8,000-tonne whaling factory ship, has been sailing southward from Japan for about two weeks and should arrive in its hunting grounds any day now: the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary off the coast of Antarctica.
Sprucing up... Workers erect a massive fir tree, from northern Italy’s alpine Val Badia valley, in St Peter's square at the Vatican on Wednesday. AP
The Centre's proposal to introduce one year compulsory rural service for doctors has drawn the ire of medical students. Are the doctors justified in their stand? What should the government do to make rural posting attractive?
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