The Saudi royal family often works tirelessly to make sure that there are no public rifts between the many princes. Of course, there are numerous rivalries, but the Godfathers, so to speak, often work to mend them or at least subdue them from public…
New Zealand’s government has struck an exclusive deal with fast food giant McDonalds. Young people receiving the unemployment benefit will be sent to jobs with McDonalds restaurants, and have their training subsidised by the taxpayer. Every…
It’s sad and unfortunate that recitation of the Vande Mataram ,apparently,goes against the religious pathos of the Muslims.One fails to understand how can obeisance towards one’s nation can invite wrath of Allah,or,for that matter , downgrade his…
The natural order of things in India ensure that elitist section
of people have the luxury of entering into corrupt practices yet boast of clean antecedents.Rahul Mahajan’s bonhomie with ‘drug culture’dosen’t surprise us,after all,such brazen…
By and large rise of non-state actors has been the result of ruling parties inability to heed to the grievances of common people in an effective way . The messy situation of allegations and counter -allegations between the ruling party and Opposition.
What a horrible price he had to pay, the tormented talent, Michael Jackson who once ruled the music world and was capable of doing so again was a mass of bones and had pills for food in his stomach as a leaked report of Autopsy suggests.His body..
Even the American luxury real estate market has suffered from the economic slump. The past wisdom that those who can afford a +$50 million are insulated from the economic ups and downs has to be revisited as several luxury homes have been knocking down…
Czech women are raised with names that imply almost patronage. In youth, their names would suggest paternal ownership. That is because Czech women traditionally add the suffix “ova” to their last names.
The suffix “ova” is allegiance to whatever…
Sexual harassment of women in the Arab world is, unfortunately, a daily burden they must carry. For the record, by harassment I do not mean cropping or worse but the act of verbal harassment as in whistling and catcalls.
[Ralph D. Hughes.]
Many…
The Leonardo DiCaprio film “Blood Diamonds” informed a whole generation of moviegoers how illicit trading in diamonds fuels oppression of native people in Africa and civil wars between neighbors.
For years, international organizations have sought…
