Double trouble heading for Jammu and Kashmir

After a brief pause, heavy rains will resume on Wednesday

Sendai framework on disaster risk reduction disappoints

Goals are without specific time plan and targets

Union budget 2015: Children left asking for their dues, as ever

The most drastic cut in child budget so far has occurred in the 2015-16 budget

Graphic Editor Sorit Gupto on Paris attack on Charlie Hebdo

Cross Hairs - December 16-31, 2014

Finger licking

Website>>Cooking>>North KOREA

Dangerous funds

Easy World Bank loans on mining and power projects can harm biodiversity

First time voters scripting a new electoral demography

Africa’s democratic deficit

Political leaders fail to deliver in Africa

A new generation

Radio>> Politics • North Darfur

Privacy concerns

APP>> Medicine • Australia

News Snippets

Living in threat

Book Launch>>MEMOIR • Pakistan

Ruby’s Benefactors

Computer Programming>>Crowd Funding • Finland

Babies as trophies

TV>> Talk Show • Pakistan

Value of a tweet

Twitter>> Reporting • Virtual world

Wire to prime minister

Telegrams>> Medicines • India

Haunting past

Report>> Indigenous Communities • Brazil

Metal shield

Arctic’s whistle-blower

Online>> www.arctictruth.org

Stranger than fiction

Novel >> Climate Change ÔÇó The UK

Mocking an autocrat

Hacking>>Politics • North Korea

Death crawl

Carnivorous snails of Thailand face extinction due to mining

Gut reaction

Malarial parasite’s food chamber reveals secret of its survival

Green monster nailed

Phosphorus can kill deadly bacterium that hits citrus plants