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Letter from New Delhi

Je vous écris cette lettre, Chers Terriens, pour vous dire que l’heure est grave. Notre monde est malade. Et comme le Professeur Stephen Emmott a évoqué dans son

Conférence-débat à l’initiative du diocèse anglican de Maurice

More than a decade after the American-led invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, trillions of dollars of military spending from 2003 to date, after hundreds of thousands of lives

Mauritius Times 60 Years  Ago – 1st YEAR No. 10 – SATURDAY – 16th October 1954

With the situation hotting up, a call to ‘Mind Your Language’ would not, I think, be superfluous. Politicians of all hues will tend to use double-entendre words. For

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