<p>Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India’ largest private sector enterprise, has been able to heave its third large scale fundraising for the company in the last nine months and will sign a $ 1.091 billion five year term loan on Thursday.</p> <p>Despite volatile conditions making a vortex in the market, RIL has been […]
Remove Farakka, Stop Tipaimukh for congenial relation as Bangladesh calls!
(Scooped News) Bangladesh’s great river Padma and her tributaries are all dried up now in April! One can walk trhough the once mighty great river under the famous Hardinge Bridge at Ishwardi! What a cruel fate! Ganges is one of the best acclaimed rivers which gave bearing to a cardinal of human civilizations. The Gangotri […]
JK Govt willing to bring judicial officers under 6th Pay Commission: Rather
Jammu, March 3 (Scoop News) – The Minister for Finance, A. R. Rather has said that the recommendations of Padamna Bhan Committee constituted by Supreme Court regarding pay revision of judicial officers have not been implemented in the State as the case was sub-judice. Replying to a question by Nazir Ahmad Gurezi, Rather said […]
The WSJ Gets Its Facts Wrong, Says No to Net Neutrality
by Matthew L. Schafer Note: This article originally appeared at the media website LWR. On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal published a short editorial regarding the net neutrality Order recently passed by the FCC. The new prophylactic rules are relatively, weak, essentially enforcing the current status quo. The editorial questioned both the FCC’s authority to […]
Challenges Facing Education – Budget Shortfalls, Part 6
Let us take a closer look at the public schools in Chicago. The budget for this fiscal year is $5.328 billion. The breakdown of revenue sources is: 1.) 18% from federal Title 1 funds, 2.) 36% from state funding which is based on a formula involving students, household income levels and special needs, 3.) 37% […]
India’s Education Sweatshops
The son of a friend recently went away all the way from Delhi to Kerala to prepare for the medical entrance tests. It seems that they have coaching centers there which have tracked the entrance tests of some medical colleges for years and have now got the requisite expertise to say that any one that […]