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Ashgabat - Gas-rich Turkmenistan has indicated an interest in the Nabucco gas pipeline, just days before an accord for the multi-billion-euro European Union project is due to be signed in Turkey, reports said Saturday. Geologists have determined that...

The NAACP said it takes our country back 50 years. The claims of racism against a group of children are causing nationwide outrage.

There is something insidious and disconcerting when self-appointed men of god, be they Hindu sadhus, Christian priests, Muslim maulvis, Jain munis or Sikh granthis, come together in the name of religion to denounce a section of humanity - the homosexuals - for professing deviant behaviour. This is as disturbing as a place of worship not opening its doors to eager faithfuls because someone doesn't fit the caste, others don't match the colour and yet others don't hold up to the desired class. It is as disconcerting as saying individual faith, religion, belief has to snuggle itself into a broader preset mould or spiritual template just to survive. It is so ironic that in a country which can trace a majority of its most persistent ills to periodic narrow, insular, non-secular and outright communal ranting of its various religious leaders, those carrying the torch on behalf of their respective flocks should come together on one platform to denounce gays. Had they been so united in talking