If you were a bird, would you worry about heights?

I had drooped into a commonplace simplicity obtained over the previous years spent in Athens and had given it a chance to conceal me for three months like an encouraging haze which I knew would scatter soon. As the fog lifted, I got myself slung into Palakkad, a little dark yet-striking town in Kerala encompassed by the lushest of green vegetation, sticky climate, tropical foods grown from the ground... where conventions and old ways...

Hugh Thomson and the humility of wanderlust

In this visit, voyager and movie producer Hugh Thomson discusses how our thought that we have mapped the world out on GPS is a somewhat presumptuous one. "Isn't entering a radical new world clearly what mountains and life and writing are about?" | Daisie Thomson Hugh Thomson is a swashbuckler. Calm and slender face to face, he doesn't promptly emit the feeling that he may set out over the Yorkshire Moors with his donkey Jethro to...

27% tribal population do not have access to safe source of drinking water: Govt

The administration today educated Parliament that as indicated by 2011 evaluation, near 27% inborn populace don't approach safe wellspring of drinking water and 75% ancestral families don't have toilets. "According to 2011 enumeration, general 75% Scheduled Tribes (STs) family units in the nation were pooing in the open. Facilitate 26.66% of aggregate ancestral populace in the nation did not approach safe wellspring of drinking water,"...

Russian historian who exposed Stalin’s crimes cleared of child pornography: TASS

A Russian student of history whose introduction of Soviet pioneer Josef Stalin's violations incensed state authorities was cleared of tyke explicit entertainment charges on Thursday, the TASS news organization announced. State prosecutors had blamed Yuri Dmitriev for including his received little girl, at that point 11, in tyke erotic entertainment, of wrongfully having segments of a gun, and of evil including a minor. Some of Russia's...

Will resign but won’t endorse martial law, says Pakistani chief justice

Pakistan's Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday expelled bits of gossip about the likelihood of a "military law" being forced in the nation and said he will leave however never embrace such a move. Equity Nisar likewise guaranteed that no postponement in the decisions will be permitted and encouraged the majority to believe him. "There is no space for any military law in the Constitution," Justice Nisar said while tending to...

IndiGo rules out participation in Air India disinvestment

Ease transporter IndiGo has discounted its cooperation in the disinvestment of Air India.  The aircraft said in an announcement on Thursday that it was principally intrigued by obtaining Air India's universal activities yet that choice isn't accessible after the legislature discharged the declaration of intrigue record a week ago for the stake offer of the national bearer.  The legislature has proposed to offer 76%...

Lahore Court asks government not to harass Hafiz Saeed

In a mishap to the administration crackdown on Hafiz Saeed's Jamaatud Dawa, Lahore High Court on Thursday requested government specialists to not hassle JuD's Chief Hafiz Saeed and enable him to proceed with his social welfare exercises till a week ago of April.  Pakistani experts had assumed control Falah-I-Insaaniyat Foundation (FIF), the philanthropy wing of JuD in February in front of the Financial Task Force (FATF) meeting...