News and Society Articles

Sexual harassment, non-payment of salaries and poor living conditions are among the reasons of a growing number of housemaid abuse.

The internet era has changed the way news organizations will need to provide news. Both fact and commentary remain important, but should be separated.

The internet is changing how we do things, and this is only be hurried along by convergence in mobile technology that results in hand held devices that can do everything (yes, that means the iPhone), and by ever improving software and community websites. For example many people are now describing Twitter as the 'pulse of the planet' allowing you to see what 'people' are talking about from your phone and to contribute to the global conversation from you iPhone.

Smoking is not only an expensive habit, it's also a very dangerous habit that might cause death eventually.

Calculating, and recalculating, the numbers of those who are below the poverty line in the country has never been easy, and the most recent effort has attracted its share of criticism. As some newspapers have been editorialising, this seems an esoteric exercise, an act of indulgence on the part of economists and experts who have played not only with the figures but with the indices as well.

A smiling photograph of her elder son Nitish adorns the front wall of Neelam Katara's drawing room, at her quaint little railway bungalow on Chelmsford Road. It is nearly a decade since Nitish was murdered, and in the time since then she has endured much that should have wiped the smiles off her own face. But Mrs.Katara has sustained her will and determination through the years.

Gone are the days where the taxi driver would ask you to pay them up front or demand you leave their shoes with them as deposit. Now, thanks to in cab CCTV, these taxi drivers are safe in the knowledge that if you do a bunk, they aren't out of pocket.

You can't open a paper these days without seeing a news story or two on anti-social behavior. It is a problem that our country faces and although we know the situations we should avoid, sometimes that just isn't possible. For taxi drivers in particular, anti-social behavior can be a dangerous part of the job which is why new technology has been developed to help keep them safe.

The author reevaluates the mystery of the Fermi Paradox in the light of humankind's own potential to explore the stars, and he concludes that alien visitation in the past has to be more likely than unlikely. In the process he notes a timing correlation between two possible signs of alien presence in early medieval times: the Nazca Lines of Peru and Muhammad's encounter with the archangel Gabriel.

There is nothing worse than feeling threatened in your own workplace. But what if your workplace is your taxi?