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More than three quarters of large carnivores now in decline by Matt McGrath http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25675002 Three quarters of the world's big carnivores - including lions, wolves and bears - are in decline, says a new study. A majority now occupy less than half...

The Ministry of Minority Affairs, Govt. of India launched the 'Jiyo Parsi' scheme to check the decline in the population of P{censored}es and help increase their numbers. The Ministry of Minority Affairs reports that as per 2001 Census of India, the Parsi community population in India was only...

Ever since the 1980's, Punjab has been decreasing in Sikhi faith. Sikh children are taught the wrong stories about our gurus in their textbook. Theres stories all over the web that complain about how the textbook can't change and how its teaching the students how Sikhism is just a sec of...

It may come as a surprise, but a recent UNO sponsored report released has clearly stated that Punjabi [currently the 10/12 most widely spoken] language is likely to die out within the next fifty years.Many reasons have been given for this. There are many causes, some social inferiority on...

"Wife-sharing" haunts Indian villages as girls decline Thu, Oct 27 2011 By Nita Bhalla - Reuters BAGHPAT, India (TrustLaw) - When Munni arrived in this fertile, sugarcane-growing region of north India as a young bride years ago, little did she imagine she would be forced into having...

Decline of radical Islam has begun Chandan Mitra The immediate aftermath of Osama bin Laden's death may propel more jihadi violence, but robbed of its most potent symbol the romance of revivalism is set to dissipate I s the worldwide Islamic upsurge petering out? Is Huntington’s Clash of...

Annals of Science (The New Yorker) The Truth Wears Off Is there something wrong with the scientific method...

Quoted from a passage by S. Rattan Singh Jaggi ...these days people do not follow the ideology of Guru Nanak and his message in our practical life, which is the cause of decline of the religion... Finally there is a realization that Sikhism is on a decline.The Reasons? To begin with, today...

NEW DELHI, Sept 7 (OneWorld) - India's release Monday of the country's 2001 religion-wise population Census, reveals that the 19 million strong minority Sikh community has reduced in numbers from 24.3 percent in 1991 to 18.2 percent in 2001, and has one of the lowest sex ratios of women to men...

washingtonpost.com - PINELLAS PARK, Fla., March 24 -- Even some of the most ardent supporters of a seven-year battle to keep Terri Schiavo alive began to resign themselves to what appeared inevitable Thursday: saying goodbye for the last time...