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Mauritius Times 60 Years Ago – 1st YEAR No. 9 – SATURDAY – 9th October 1954   A GLIMPSE OF LOCAL HISTORY By D. NAPAL B.A (HONS)  “Je crois que Dieu

What news do we dread most as a people? Not the bad news on the economic situation and high unemployment rate, because our parents already experimented with the

The coming general elections are the most important since the 1967 elections which led to the independence of Mauritius in 1968, 46 years ago

Naked on the Net

The push for greater use of Hindi by Modi, the son of a poor tea-seller who made a stunning political rise, has been read partly as a move

In a packed auditorium of the Alliance Francaise, with a fitting ambience, the audience listened and watched a well-organised launching event for a new book, held on Wednesday

When the Nobel Prizes are due to be announced, usually around this time of the year, there is always excitement in the air for the scientific community, as

We can tackle the oncoming problem of poverty not by squeezing money out of what we already have but rather by increasing sustainably the size of the national

« Les générations à venir auront peine à croire qu’un tel homme ait existé en chair et en os sur cette terre » — Albert Einstein Le 2

 Mauritius Times 60 Years Ago – 1st YEAR NO. 8 – SATURDAY 2nd October 1954

Teachers Day

Party leaders should stop playing such communal games and concentrate instead on the real issues facing the country, for which they have been voted.

For so many months since the beginning of the year the national political agenda was almost exclusively dominated by the search for a solution to the allegedly divisive

  If anything, the electric atmosphere that thrilled crowds of NRIs at Madison Square Garden on the occasion of the Indian PM’s visit was tantamount to an exceptional

The poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge reads, “Water, water everywhere. Nor any drop to drink.” These words ring all too true when one