source Times of India MOSCOW: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed forming a “Eurasian Union” of former Soviet nations, saying the bloc could become a major global player competing for influence with the United States, the European Union and Asia. Putin, who has lamented the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Unionas […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Ministers of higher education and scientific research in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries began an extraordinary meeting here Tuesday to explore prospects of expanding cooperation among universities and research centers in the Muslim world. Opening the conference, Higher Education Minister Khaled Al-Anqari emphasized the […]
source: TOI on Line All power comes from the preservation and sublimation of the vitality that is responsible for the creation of life” – Mahatma Gandhi, as quoted in Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph’s book, Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays. Long before Anna Hazare boasted about the power of his brahmacharya […]
September 14, 2011 What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? By PAUL TOUGH Dominic Randolph can seem a little out of place at Riverdale Country School — which is odd, because he’s the headmaster. Riverdale is one of New York City’s most prestigious private schools, with a 104-year-old […]
Source: TOI on Line Desmond Tutu , Nobel Peace Prize winner, spent decades fighting apartheid in South Africa. Today, as part of ‘The Elders’ global coalition, he’s taking on child marriage. The Archbishop spoke with Srijana Mitra Das about the crucial ‘Girls, Not Brides’ campaign, tradition, non-violence – and corruption: […]
Source: onlineeducation.net Learning is a life-long endeavor and online education incarnates this age-old ideology quite flawlessly. Today nearly half of all online students are 26 years or older. But what about tomorrow? Read more
Source: Irfan Ahmed Khan of Germany Author and activist Tariq Ali spoke on ‘The Perils of Islamophobia’ last week at the annual Marxism festival in London ‘We live in dangerous and unpredictable times. If anyone had suggested 30 or 40 years ago that one of the central issues we would […]
Source: Times of India They arrived with their moody, melancholic prose offering remarkable insight into Pakistan. Their novels and short stories went far beyond what daily newspaper reports tell about the strife-torn country. Through characters trapped into making difficult choices, they not only explored what ails Pakistan and why sane […]
Source:Times of India In Varanasi, the poorest are the most creditworthy for blessings. Open-ended credit is available without any legally-binding contracts;yet, the rate of default is less than one percent. Bankers maintain they’ve never had sleepless nights thinking about the liquidity risk they run;not even, ever, about bad debts or […]
source:toi on line The government has begun to look for alternate ways to deal with drug abuse, and little wonder. With an estimated 7.5 crore drug addicts in India at last count – that’s just the formal figure – it isn’t a problem that’s going to go away soon. Neither […]
Source: Spiegel International Germany Dutch journalist Thijs Zonneveld wrote a column proposing the construction of an artificial mountain in the flat Netherlands as a joke. But the idea has captured the country’s imagination and Zonneveld is now looking into its feasibility. After all, he says, in the past the country […]
Source. asiatimes Much as I admire the late Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, who turned his horrific experience at Auschwitz into clinical insights, the notion of “man’s search for meaning” seems inadequate. Just what about man qualifies him to search for meaning, whatever that might be? More:
Source: Times of India As the United States and Europe struggle to contain their debt crises, the decline of the West and ‘the rise of the rest’ increasingly shape the international political discourse. Analysts around the world predict the dawn of a new world order led by mostly non-western giants […]
Courtesy / Source: New York Times By John Markoff PALO ALTO, Calif. — A free online course at Stanford Universityon artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58,000 students around the globe — a class nearly four times the […]
source: dawn.com THE lady cooking a new version of chicken curry is wearing a mint green hijab. In the midst of adding spices and emptying out bowls of beaten yoghurt and thinly chopped ginger, she pauses to narrate a hadith. Within the hour, viewers have been provided with an endearing […]
source/credit. times of india. Women who want to have a baby should brush their teeth and floss regularly, according to an Australian research. It found that poor oral health is as bad for fertility as obesity – delaying the chances of conceiving by about two months. The study, which involved […]
Credit; dailytimes.com The father mortgages everything he owns and even sells Jewel’s special horse to buy a new team of mules. When the family rests for the night at a farm, Darl burns the barn down in an attempt to cremate his mother, wondering why anyone would go through all […]
Keshet educational tours interface with Israeli society so that visitors understand that the story of contemporary Israel is their story, too. At the offices of Keshet: The Center for Educational Tourism in Israel in Jerusalem, things are humming with activity. Every summer the organization’s staff of 33 swells three fold, […]
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday directed the government to increase financial support for state universities, as recommended in a plan previously ordered by His Majesty to reform higher education. In a follow-up meeting with public university presidents, the King was briefed on the plan, which […]
Graphic designer Christian Boer developed the typeface, called Dyslexie, back in 2008. And while it isn’t the first font created specifically to help dyslectics, it may be the first backed up by some scientific evidence that suggests it works. A recent study by researchers at the University of Twente in […]