Light sweet crude rallied by 9 percent to $54 per barrel as production outcut cut expected from OPEC. The price of crude had fallen to 3 and a half year low to $48.25. The president of OPEC Chakib Khelil revealed that a further output reduction of more than 1 million barrels per day would definitely […]
Obama Names First Blogger to White House Post
Appointments to positions in President-Elect Barack Obama’s White House personnel came fast and furious today, also Vice President-Elect Joe Biden’s 66th birthday. Previously reported was his naming of Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services and point man on health care reform in the new administration. Daschle used to be the Senate Majority […]
Journalist killed
Security forces shot dead a local journalist in Mingora city of Swat valley late Saturday night when he was on his way back from a local hospital. Qari Muhammad Shoaib, a correspondent of two Mingora-based dailies, was shot in the back of the head at Green Square despite the fact that there was no curfew. […]
Nepal’s Fragile Peace Process
Nepal’s government and political parties were unable on Wednesday to form the high level army integration committee and the political steering committee proposed and expected long ago due to the fresh barriers set by the Nepali Congress (NC) known for its love for status quoism. NC leaders refused to join the army integration committee and […]
Typhoon Hagupit kills 42 in Vietnam
Hanoi: Typhoon Hagupit hit Vietnam on Friday and claimed as many as fourty two lives and left four missing in northern part of the country, the officials said today. Officials at the National Steering Committee for Storm and Flood Control said that heavy rains and landslides triggered by the typhoon swept through villages, washing […]
a holiday in the KodavaNadu (Part 2)
so there we were… driving along in the Ash-blue Maruti Van along the picturisque roads of Coorg… first stop : Chiklihole Dam (pronounced Chiklyholay Dam) Frankly not the best showcase piece of Coorg… atleast not at the time we went there… first of all, mid summer and hardly any water meant that there was no […]
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