How To Overcome Fraud and Investment Risk Investment opportunities generate responsibilities, challenges and risks. Besides, the market-induced risks are the unwholesome practices and frauds, which may lead to gargantuan loss of funds and possible profits. For instance, one investment promoter attempted to get people to invest in a fake coconut plantation in South America, claiming […]
J&K Irony: She kissed the hands that buried her son
Abhishek Behl, www.merinews.com Four years after her son was brutally killed by the terrorists in J&K, 70-year old Sabza Begum could not resist herself from embracing the police officer, who went against the ‘fatwa’ issued by the terrorists and gave him a decent burial. AFTER FOUR YEARS of long wait, when seventy-year-old Sabza […]
Signals From Tehran
The title of the two-page Iranian document is "Gentlemen’s Agreement." In convoluted English, it lists 11 points of understanding supposedly reached in September between Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani and his European counterpart, Javier Solana, on a temporary, partial, not-quite suspension of uranium enrichment. What’s interesting isn’t the purported agreement — Solana’s spokeswoman, Cristina Gallach, insists […]
East of Tragedy
The intimate portrait of a New Orleans East couple who are in the midst of rebuilding their home and recovering the pieces of a joyful life twenty months after the levees broke. Beatrice Haynes anxiously walked up to the single story home she and her husband Milton, both 48, have owned in New Orleans East […]
Paris Hilton should be held accountable for her legal problems
Paris Hilton’s recent arrest for driving on a suspended license and now her recent court hearing and sentencing. Both Paris and her mother Kathy felt that the sentence Paris received was “Harsh and Cruel and Unnecessary”. How is getting 45 days in prison considered cruel, harsh and unjust? Then Kathy Hilton is quoted making a […]
Overpopulation needs immediate attention
The world’s population right now is exploding. The United Nations predicted that from 5.3 billion people today, the world’s population is expected to swell to 9.2 billion in 2050, assuming that global fertility among women will drop from 2.05 to 2. Worldwide, the population is growing at 75 million people per year. From 2000 to […]