The Tibetan shot in yesterday’s police violence in Ngaba Bharma Shang has been identified as a young school student. Urgyen, a 20-year old student was shot dead while he
Time management: sustain your soul with structure
Structuring time doesn’t have to be about work. Make appointments to reconnect with something personally importantMost of us are painfully aware of, and sad about, how highly structured our time is. Anyone in employment or with children to look after k…
Nigeria: fundamental issues | Editorial
Boko Haram’s gruesome rise has prised open crevices where ethnic, religious and socioeconomic fault lines intersectA bombing campaign is reductionist by design. Complex societies with long and painful histories end up being reduced to simple dichotomie…
Capitalism only creates misery – we need a system that puts human wellbeing first
It is the Green party that now embodies the natural political expression of the more progressive traditions found in dissenting movements such as Quakerism and radical CatholicismEd Miliband has accepted David Cameron’s cuts. Ken Livingstone shares Bor…
US TV removes 'weird' remark for Hindu deities
Chicago: An American television station that sparked an outrage among the Hindus by using the term 'weird' to describe their deities in a sports commentary, has removed …
BJP promises to remodel Mayawati monuments, oppose minority quota
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promised Friday that if voted to power in Uttar Pradesh it would remodel the multi-billion rupee monuments and parks erected by Chief Minister Mayawati and oppose …
Karnataka to halt Aadhaar enrolments
The curtains will come down on enrolments for Aadhaar, the Central government's ambitious unique identification programme, by February 15 at all 2,245 enrolment centres across …
BJP promises 'grand temple', Congress jobs, quota
Reviving the Ayodhya issue, the BJP today promised to build a Ram temple but Congress came out with plans to create 20 lakh jobs for unemployed youth in their manifestos for the Assembly elections …
Why are people friendly? | Andrew Brown
Without selection between competing groups, the advantages of co-operation are not great enough to make it spreadThis week’s Nature has a report on how hunter-gatherers co-operate, which shows the way in which the scientific study of altruism has moved…
Jean Wyllys, Brazil’s first openly gay MP, takes fight to the religious right
Stance against homophobia has made former Big Brother contestant a hate figure for religious zealots, but he has vowed to keep battlingIn the sitting room of his eighth-floor Copacabana apartment, Jean Wyllys has hung a multicoloured portrait of one of…
Accord Coalition meets with Shadow Secretary of State for Education
The Accord Coalition had this week held a constructive meeting with Stephen Twigg MP, the Shadow Secretary of State for Education.
