The Wall Street Journal reports that insiders have told them that Republicans will redouble their efforts to make House Speaker Nancy Pelosi an albatross around the necks of the Democrats. The strategy of linking the liberal Pelosi to centrist Dems didn’t work in 2006 or 2008, reports WSJ’s Neftali Bendavid but in the upcoming mid-term elections, Republicans […]
Amazingly, Even Diarrhea KIlls Scores of People in Nepal
One or the other instances of health related issues have been making the world at large obliged to get alert and anxious, time and again. There was a global threat called SARS quite sometime back. And an overwhelming fear about Bird Flu, which but seems to be alleviated recently, while the concern shall not be […]
Fiji: EU cancels 2009 sugar subsidy
The European Union announced that it was suspending 2009 payment of 24 million Euro in subsidies to help prop up Fiji’s sugar industry. European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel, admitted Fiji would have received the payment if it would have had a “legitimate government” in place. He was referring to the events […]
Bulls Dismiss Slump Warnings
Hopes are mounting among financiers that the recent rally in emerging market assets is setting the scene for a bull market in 2010, despite warnings from senior economists of a long and deep global recession. Mark Mobius, executive chairman at Franklin Templeton Investment, told Emerging Markets yesterday the rally was “ sustainable in the long […]
‘J&K needs a strong political voice to represent regional aspirations’ :Mufti
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has said the fast emergence of PDP as a strong political force across the State, is the people’s endorsement of the party’s agenda and vision on Jammu & Kashmir. “Having given PDP a substantial mandate in 2008 assembly elections, once again an important decision is to […]
Visa Waivers Afforded To 34 Foreign Countries While America Still At War
Recently I received one of the status bulletins from the Department of Homeland Security with respect to the measures which are being taken due to the escalation of the violence and drug trafficking which are occurring in my former home state of Arizona. I subscribed to this bulletin since I have many friends and family […]
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