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Why the Blade runner controversy is good for the Paralympics

What Pistorius achieved by complaining that the IPC needed to clarify the rules about the length of blades for Paralympic athletes, was to make the games even more mainstream.

Can alcoholism, diabetes lead to spontaneous human combustion?

Doctors have not found any cure for this condition except treating it like a normal case of burns, a big reason being that science has not yet been able to ascertain what may be the definitive reason for this condition. However, there are various theories to why SHC occurs.

UPA on the mat, it’s now or never for the BJP

The party has everything going for it but there’s one problem: general election is far off.

Shielded by a deal, it’s a jolly good life for Abu Salem

Gangster Abu Salem – an accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts and in the killing of music baron Gulshan Kumar — cannot be awarded the death sentence. He won’t be tried for offences that merit more than 25 years in jail. No wonder, he is making merry.

Laws alone can't prevent a disaster like the Bangladesh factory collapse

Unless consumer approach in the West changes or countries like Bangladesh come up with strong rules, disasters like the Savar factory collapse will keep occurring.

Is social networking building Internet’s caste system?

With Google’s Page Rank we started to see changes in the way we consumed the web. We moved away from individual web pages and started visiting the Google home page. But, then who decides which result should come up tops? Not Google surely.

Jaitley’s speech: The reality beyond the rhetoric

Bright speeches not enough. The political class must be the change it promises to bring. There’s no escape from corruption till the nature politics changes.

After Lokpal, it's time for an investor revolution

Indian investors need to begin a revolution against wealth destroyers in the market and for more transparency in the handling of their provident and pension funds.

Travels through the Hindi belt: Cast out of cow trade, Bihar's Gora village plunges into despair, poverty; MGNREGA offers no relief

Half of Gora with a population of nearly 3,000 had been engaged in the cattle trade.

In Mumbai's crematoriums, exhausted workers pull on to earn a living despite psychological stress, fear of COVID-19

While managing the mourners, disposing dead bodies and exhausting themselves physically, the workers are overwhelmed emotionally and physiologically too.