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Australian Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks at a press conference in New Delhi, India, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. Gillard is on a five-day visit to India.
(photo: AP / Gurinder Osan)
Oz to amend law in wake of racist attacks on Indians
Zeenews
Melbourne: Australia will strengthen legislation to better protect international students, including Indians, and ensure world class quality education for them, Education Minister Julia Gillard said Tuesday. | Gillard released a review report presented by former MP Bruce Baird and agreed to work tow...
India's ruling Congress party supporters celebrate the passing of Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament, in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
(photo: AP / Ajit Solanki)
Women's Bill passed in RS as Congress refuses to be cowed down
The Times Of India
NEW DELHI: After a day of high drama that saw the Rajya Sabha swarm with more than a hundred marshals in blue dresses called in to bundle out seven MPs blocking proceedings, the House recorded a historic vote in favour of a bill providing for 33% reservation for women in Parliament and assemblies. |...
Dropping the r-bomb
National Post
 By National PostMarch 10, 2010 2:37 AM   | It was revealed by The Wall Street Journal in late January that at a private strategy session in August, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's chief of staff, blasted the internally divisive political ploy propos...
Churches acted 'decisively' in child sex scandals—Vatican
Inquirer
| VATICAN CITY – (UPDATE) Vatican officials moved to stem the rising tide of anger as details emerged of separate pedophilia scandals involving Catholic priests in several European countries. | Spokesman Federico Lombardi defended the response of chu...
Madhya Pradesh CM wants Gita in school curricula
IBN Live
Bhopal: First it was sun worship and yoga in government schools and now the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has made it a mission to introduce the Bhagavad Gita in school curricula. | “I had met swami Arganad and there this thou...
Fighting a War of Words About a Lot of Words About a War
The New York Times
| A momentous passage in American journalism strides stiffly across the stage of New York Theater Workshop in "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers," a fact-packed drama by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons, journalists with distinguished car...
Why only Gita teach in schools
The Siasat Daily
| Bhopal, March 10: Minorities in Madhya Pradesh have criticised plans to introduce the Bhagvad Gita in state-run schools, saying the scriptures of other religions should also be part of the syllabus, even as a section of Muslim leaders sees nothing ...
Oz to amend law in wake of racist attacks on Indians
Zeenews
Melbourne: Australia will strengthen legislation to better protect international students, including Indians, and ensure world class quality education for them, Education Minister Julia Gillard said Tuesday. | Gillard released a review report present...
 Armenian women pray at Surp Astvadzadzin Church in Istanbul, Turkey, March 27, 2005. Turkey´s mass expulsion of Armenians during World War I - which Armenians say was part of a genocide that claimed 1.5 million lives, is one of the most sensitive s
AP Photo/Osman Orsal
Robert Fisk: Living proof of the Armenian genocide
The Independent
| It's only a small grave, a rectangle of cheap concrete marking it out, blessed by a flourish of wild yellow lilies. Inside are the powdered bones and skulls and bits of femur of ...
Muslim preacher Ebu Enes Muhamed, 3rd from left, from Braunschweig, Germany, speaks to around 500 persons during a demonstration against a minaret ban, organized by the central council of muslims, on the Bundesplatz square in Bern, Switzerland, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009.
AP / Keystone/Lukas Lehmann
Integrate Germany's Muslims,but also defend liberal democracy
Daily Star Lebanon
| Commentary by | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 | - Powered by | The relationship between the popular majority in Germany and the country’s Muslim residents is one of the foremost ...
Condom
WN / Yolanda
Condom debate brought to bishops' doorstep
Inquirer
| MANILA, Philippines—They came bearing condoms. | Members of a workers group Monday brought the condom debate to the doorstep of Catholic bishops, in a bid to convince the prelate...
PRE CAMPAIGN CLUTER OR SPIN CENTRAL?--> CBCP to Cabral: We're open to condom talks
Malaya
| THE Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is not ruling out a dialogue with the Department of Health to resolve the dispute over its renewed promotion for condom use. | "On our side, hindi naman masama yun… kasi nga, di ba, i...
Whistleblowers seek justice for one of them
Inquirer
| MANILA, Philippines—Whistleblowers in various scandals that have rocked the Arroyo administration Tuesday came out to demand justice for the killing over a week ago of Wilfredo 'Boy' Mayor, a witness in Senate investigations into illegal gambling p...
Vatican seeks to put child sex scandals in perspective
Inquirer
| VATICAN CITY—The Vatican on Tuesday said national Catholic churches had reacted decisively to pedophile priest scandals while stressing that the sexual abuse of children is a "much wider" phenomenon. | "The main ecclesiastical institutions involved...
Human Rights
File - Detainees at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo, Cuba, sit on prayer rugs as they observe morning prayers before sunrise inside Camp Delta Oct. 28, 2009.
(photo: US Navy / MCS2 Marcos T. Hernandez)
UK complained to US about terror suspect torture, says ex-MI5 boss
The Guardian
| • Waterboarding of 9/11 suspect was 'concealed' | • Manningham-Buller criticises Bush staff | Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller criticised George Bush and his administration, for torture of terror suspects Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images | The government protested to the US over the of terror suspects, the former head of , Dame Eliza Man...
Society
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet reading the Buddhist scriptures at the main Tibetan temple during long life prayer offering ceremony held in Dharamshala, India
(photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
Dalai Lama speech to appeal to elite in Tibet to visit communities of exiled Tibetans
DNA India
| Beijing: Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will appeal to the elite in the Chinese-run Himalayan region in a speech on Wednesday, inviting them to visit communities of exiled Tibetans. | In an address marking 51 years since he fled into exile after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, the Dalai Lama will also pledge he and mem...



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