There is no escape from actions and their fruits. We are helplessly compelled to do something throughout our life, right from our birth to death. There cannot be any moment in our life when one does not work. There is no escape from action, and therefore, there is no question of escapism. Our all actions to escape from unhappy situations of our lives are also actions. And where there is action, there is bondage. All actions bind us to certain fruits.

Almost all of us seek happiness. We follow the path that we believe are capable of giving happiness. We also get happiness in our life, but our problem is our incapability of sustaining it for a longer time. We begin experiencing happiness and then end up in miseries. Our happiness is interrupted. It cannot be experienced continuously throughout the life. Everything that begins has an end. It is the law. We forget the self in this process which is simply bliss and axiomatic. We simply need to remove the veil of ignorance to find it within, which is the rhythm and the base of our very existence.

With our present approach to development, we have caused the clearing of much of the original forests, drained half of the world’s wetlands, depleted three quarters of the fish stocks, and emitted enough heat-trapping gases to keep our planet warming for centuries to come.

Rabindranath Tagore attained early success in literature in his native Bengal. Though successful in all literary genres, he was first of all a great poet. With his translations of some of his poems he also became rapidly famous in the west. Among his fifty and odd popular volumes of poetry are the likes of Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], and Gitanjali (1910), which fetched him the Nobel prize for literature in 1913.

Better city, better life with Information and Communication Technology is the theme of this year’s celebration of World Telecommunications and Information Society Day (WTISD). This day marks the signing of the first International Convention and Foundation of International Telecommunication Union in 1865. World Telecommunication Day is being celebrated annually since 1969. Telecommunication services which because of technological evolution morphed into Telecommunication and Information Services prompted the Plenipotentiary Conference in Antalya to rechristen the World Telecommunication Day as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day.

New York: Global health challenges facing the world can only be overcome through collective efforts similar to the international campaign that resulted in the eradication of smallpox three decades ago, the head of the United Nations health agency has said.

Rapid urbanization and the increase in the population of cities are recognized as being among the major challenges of health development. Between 1990 and 2025, the total urban population in developing countries is projected to increase threefold to almost 61% of the population. It is associated with many health challenges related with water, environment, violence and injury, non-communicable diseases and their risk factors like tobacco use, unhealthy diets, physical inactivity and the risk associated with disease outbreaks.

New York: Everyone has a right to information affecting their lives but too often government secrecy and a lack of accountability ensure that the public are deprived of vital facts, UN Secretary-General? Ban Ki-moon has said as he called for a wholesale change in attitudes towards press freedom.

If 1989 saw the end of the “Second World” with Communism’s demise, then 2009 saw the end of what was known as the “Third World”: We are now in a new, fast-evolving multipolar world economy – where North and South, East and West, are now points on a compass, not economic destinies.

More than 10 million different species of animals, plants, fungi and micro–organisms inhabits the Earth. They and the habitats in which they live represent the world’s biological diversity or biodiversity as it is often called. Humans use at least 40,000 species of plants and animals on a daily basis for food, shelter, clothing and medicinal needs.