Mauritius is quite a young country and is hardly four centuries old. Yet it has witnessed a lot of changes in this respect, passing through the French East India rule from 1721 to 1767, Crown or Royal rule from 1767 to 1790, Revolutionary Government from 1790 to 1799, and Imperial rule from 1799 to 1810 when it was captured by the British.

Freestyle Football is the latest contagious trend among footballers of all ages allowing them to exhibit their talent and ball skills. It can be described as an art form and a sport in its own right.

Rarely has an election resonated so widely across the European Union as the French presidential ballot has done. Rarely has a leadership change in one EU member state created expectations of a real policy shift.

As Mauritians, we have always regarded our health as an important factor in our daily life. The health of our young shapes the future health of the whole nation and in a broader social sense, the health of Mauritian society.

The 19th century is an anthology of the tribes and tribulations of the Indian labourers, the ex -slaves, the creoles and the blacks in terms of living and working conditions. It has already been pointed out that they lived in small thatched huts  bordered with walls plastered with a mixture of cow dungs  and earth.

According to Stephen King, “books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”  Why, indeed?

As India grapples with the Vodafone and 2G fallout, the Bilateral Investment Treaties it signed a few years ago are coming back to haunt it. On April 17, British telecom giant Vodafone issued a notice of dispute to the Indian government, as a first step towards launching investment arbitration proceedings under the India-Netherlands Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) signed in 1995.

Most of us, at least in some circumstances, consider it bad to harm others and good to help them. We all have a sense of fairness: that one should reciprocate favours, reward benefactors and punish those who commit crime.

The last issue has focused on epidemics mainly Cholera and Malaria and the harm they did to the country by taking a heavy toll of lives and the struggle the authorities had to put up to cope with them. However it was not the end of the problems. More were still to come in the guise of 1899 plague and 1919 Spanish Fever.

This is an incredible era for art, photography and design. New paradigms are being explored and boundaries are being broken. However, there are many artists who remain undiscovered, for the simple reason that it is thorny to make a breakthrough into the professional art world.

Not only Nepal but the entire Himalayan region is under threat. Genetically Engineered seeds are weapons of mass culling. The Nepalese Government’s foolishness in inviting USAID and Monsanto for ‘agricultural development’ through genetically engineered maize will destroy the quality of its livestock and humans.

All human beings are entitled to rights and freedoms set when they are born, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.