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Friday 12/February/2016 17:40 PM

Cricket: Advantage Australia on Day One

Steve Smith and Usman Khawaja hammered home the advantage their bowlers had established when they took Australia to 147-3, a deficit of just 36 runs, at the...

Friday 12/February/2016 16:14 PM

.Open Minds forum concludes in Oman

Muscat: Speakers for the final day of the .Open Minds were Ghassan Fadhil, Caricaturist Matt Ryder, Col Abdulwahab Al Balushi and Standup comedian along...

Wednesday 10/February/2016 22:55 PM

What would founders say about assault weapons?

The US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has struck down Maryland’s law regulating assault weapons, creating a split with the 2nd Circuit, which upheld...

Wednesday 10/February/2016 22:51 PM

The neglected probation system

There are approximately 90,000 people incarcerated in the prisons of Pakistan including men, women, juveniles, minors with their mothers and so on. All...

Wednesday 10/February/2016 22:47 PM

Defusing the third space race

With China, Russia, and the United States fine-tuning anti-satellite (ASAT) warfare capabilities, the third round of competition to “seize the high...

Wednesday 10/February/2016 16:08 PM

Oregon is the picture of rosy economic health

The biggest recent news from Oregon has nothing to do with the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge near the high-desert town of Burns. It's...

Wednesday 10/February/2016 15:56 PM

Why should the world fear a falling yuan?

Everyone from buttoned-down Japanese central bankers to ex-slugger Jose Canseco (or whoever hacked his Twitter account) seems to be worried about the...

Wednesday 10/February/2016 15:41 PM

How India’s caste system survives

On January 17, Rohith Vemula, a PhD candidate at the University of Hyderabad in India’s Telangana state, hanged himself. Even in a country of 1.2 billion...