History repeats itself.We have seen many a high profile personalities have resigned under controversial circumstances The latest being a Tamil Nadu cabinet minister, namely Ms.Poongothai, the wife of late.Aladi Aruna, the erstwhile DMK Minister who was gruelly murdered. A few days ago, Mr.Subramaniam Swamy , the Janata party leader, released a CD which had the tapped versions of Ms.Poongothai […]
MacGyver or Richard Dean Anderson
When an American pilot is shot down in the Himalayas or scientists are trapped in an underground research lab, the experts called a former Special Forces agent, to save the day. He used that paper clip to short-circuit a nuclear missile; with the chocolate, he stopped an acid leak. It may be just a Snickers […]
Ecuador: The Aftermath of the Border Crisis
by Milton Ramirez The decision taken at the Rio Summit benefits the people living in the three countries involved: Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, but the governments are only slowly returning their relations back to how they were before the incident. The Organization of American States (OAS) has already handed out its resolution and it seems […]
Australian Umpire Darrel Hair Was Restored in the Elite Panel of Umpires of the ICC
The Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board, Mr.Shaharya Khan was shocked to hear the news that the Australian umpire Mr. Darrel Hair who was removed from the elite panel of umpires of ICC, a few months ago for racking up a controversy, was restored back to the elite panel of umpires. Darrel Hair, one of the most […]
Trouble Brewing in Megalaya
In the recently held elections for the assembly of Megalaya (60 seats total), results did not give a single party majority control, Congress I under the leadership of Mr.Lapang, emerged as the single largest party securing 25 assembly seats. The next position went to the Nationalist Congress party led by Sangma, securing 15 seats, other regional […]
Last.FM at Glasshouse in Tribeca – ball-pits, and scrobbling I can believe in.
I should have taken my own photo, since I was sitting closer to Last.FM at the Glasshouse event Thursday, Feb 28th on 75 Murray street in Tribeca. Instead I had to steal this one from from a flickr stream. A clearer shot would have shown the nice guys from Last.FM looked more like coldplay or […]