people

UN: World will miss economic benefit of 1.8 billion young people Population report says lack of education, infrastructure and jobs will mean a generation's potential will be wasted Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 October 2011 13.32 BST Shoeshine...

New Delhi: An internal Congress inquiry report has indicted the Ashok Gehlot government for the Bharatpur riots. The report prepare by the Congress' inquiry committee set up by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, has confirmed police excesses during the riots. The report also said that State Home...

Some people have to work hard at being good while others seem to display an innate goodness appearing to be predisposed to good and religiousity like Mother Terera or the Saintly Souls who do it for goodness sake. Some people try to be good but fail even after trying, yet some are good without...

Ask the Religion Experts. Does Religion Divide or Unite People? Rabbi REUVEN BULKA is head of Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa and host of Sunday Night with Rabbi Bulka on 580 CFRA. Yes. Religion both divides and unites. It divides by the very nature of having different...

July 27, 2011 Indians are World's Most Depressed People: Report London - Jul 27, 2011 Indians are the world's most depressed people with nearly 36 per cent suffering from Major Depressive Episode (MDE), the cluster of symptoms of depression, according to a WHO-sponsored study. The...

by Terry Moran It's not your ordinary Sunday service. In a small church just outside Buffalo, N.Y., people are retching and coughing up into paper bags. A few are incessantly, forcefully, weirdly yawning. An 8-year-old boy is tackled and pinned to the ground as he yells out, "Get off of...

Shafqat Tanveer Mirza Punjabi Leaders, Academics Fail language of the people Image: From "Mirza Sahiba." S O far as Punjabi political leaders are concerned, they are illiterate in terms of Punjabi or Seraiki language because they are not taught in their mother tongue at any level...

Ask the Religion Experts: How can people of faith be good examples for peace? THE OTTAWA CITIZEN MAY 28, 2011 BE THE FIRST TO POST A COMMENT KEVIN SMITH is on the board of directors for the Centre of Inquiry, Canada’s premier venue for humanists, skeptics and freethinkers...

May 15, 2011 Where wheat decays and people starve Gobind Thukral - South Asia Post - May 15, 2011 ANYONE traveling through Punjab and Haryana is greeted by mountains of wheat. Large markets of Moga, Khanna, Jaraon and Malout in Punjab besides Kaithal Karnal, Hisar and Sirsa in Haryana along...

The definition of democracy according to dictionary.com is "Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system." By definition democracy is the will of the...

Respect people’s language of worship G Vinod | March 16, 2011 Rakyat will doubt the government's sincerity in respecting religious freedom and the mode of worship, says consultative council PETALING JAYA: The government should respect religious freedom and the language used for worship...

See photo slide show at this link http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/world/earthquake-strikes-christchurch/20110222-1b3a5.html New Zealand earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing at least 65 people City hit by 6.3-magnitude quake on busy weekday afternoon, its second major quake in five...

By VIKAS BAJAJ Published: February 11, 2011 Lack of Attention to Farming Is Catching Up With India BAMNOD, INDIA — The 50-year-old farmer knew from experience that his onion crop was doomed when torrential rains pounded his fields throughout September, a month when the Indian monsoon normally...

Dr. David Liepert Muslim Author, Leader, Spokesperson, Host of "The Optimistic Muslim" on webtalkradio.net "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (and women) are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are...

Forwarded by forum mentor Gyani Jarnail Singh Arshi ji Shiv Kumar was born on July 23, 1936 in Bara Pind Lohtian (Shakargarh tehsil), in Punjab (now Pakistan). His father was a Patwari by the name of Pandit Krishan Gopal. After the partition his family moved to Batala. As a child Shiv is...

Lisa D. Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton Are you religious? What criteria come to mind in answering that question? When evaluating how "religious" someone is, social scientists and the general public tend to rely on the frequency of religious activities, strength or type of religious...

WASHINGTON — The State Department is warning hundreds of human rights activists, foreign government officials and businesspeople identified in leaked diplomatic cables of potential threats to their safety and has moved a handful of them to safer locations, administration officials said Thursday...

Douglas Todd Here's a news release that came out today from SFU about Christmas trees in social spaces making some people feel marginilised. It's quite fascinating, but makes one wonder what would happen if subjects were tested on a variety of other things that might make them feel excluded...

Why Religion Makes People Happier (Hint: Not God) By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer posted: 07 December 2010 05:37 am ET Religious people are more satisfied with their lives than nonbelievers, but a new study finds it's not a relationship with God that makes the devout happy...

Expelled by Akali Dal, embraced by people Punjab Newsline Network - Sunday, 14 November 2010 By Satinder Bains CHANDIGARH: It is phenomenal rise for Manpreet Badal, former Punjab Finance Minister, a rebel, who was accorded an unprecedented welcome by people of Punjab after being expelled...