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Even with an African-American president in the White House, it's a still a hard day's life for the blacks 150 years after Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and 50 years after two landmark legislations outlawed racial discrimination.

The international borders in the North east is extremely porous and allows cross border infiltration and smuggling of arms. Dimapur in Nagaland is a hub for smuggled sophisticated arms from across the border, especially Myanmar. Mizoram is another major conduit for smuggled arms.

Till now, more than a dozen Chilesaurus specimens have been excavated, including four complete skeletons -- a first for the Jurassic period in Chile -- and they demonstrate that this dinosaur certainly combined a variety of unique anatomical traits.

Haryana Agriculture Minister O.P. Dhankar told media here that the state government could not support farmers who were committing suicide. He said that the farmers who were committing suicide were running away from their responsibilities and leaving their families and children with liabilities.

Akshaya Patra's mid-day meal programme reaches out to both; urban and rural India through its dual-pronged strategy of centralized and decentralized kitchens. It's 21 centralized kitchens, often called 'the happiness factory' cater to the urban children whereas in rural inaccessible areas such as the deserts of Baran, Rajasthan and the deep jungles of Nayagarh, Orissa, decentralized school-based kitchens are established. Here, the food is cooked by local women self-help groups, for whom it is also a steady employment.

Despite the best efforts of my parents, grandparents and teachers, I could never develop a clear, succinct, legible and beautiful pearl-like handwriting. As a result, I suffered first at examinations and then in personal life as my girlfriends often complained that they could not decipher what I wrote. It was when I realized the advantages and disadvantages of handwriting.

Politicians of all shades and variety claim to be friends of the farmer but what have they done friends in need?

The Khosla Commission (1970) concurred with the reports of Justice Mukherjee Commission (2006) which said, "Bose did not die in the plane crash and the ashes at Renkoji temple are not his". However, the findings were rejected by the Government of India

A ministerial berth or any such glorified decoration is a sure shot way to mask or camouflage the business promotion activities of a Marketing Manager of Ayurvedic products...

Fifty-four years ago on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut, 27-year-old Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, went into space in the spaceship called “Vostok 1″ and made one complete orbital flight around the Earth.Yuri Gagarin’s space odyssey lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes, and overnight he became a world hero.

For the the first time NASA has discovered Nitrogen on the surface of Mars. This discovery adds to the evidence that Mars is habitable for life

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project is using Curiosity to determine if life was possible on Mars and study major changes in Martian environmental conditions.