Typhoon Ketsana struck several Southeast Asian countries leaving hundreds dead and millions homeless. It triggered the worst flooding in the Philippines which affected 3 million people as of this writing. It displaced hundreds of thousands of residents in central Vietnam, Cambodia and southern Laos. “Ketsana” destroyed more than 300,000 homes, schools and other structures in […]
Mehbooba disobeys Speaker’s direction;Speaker adjourns JK Assembly Sine-die
Srinagar,September 1 (Vijay Kumar) -Speaker, J&K Legislative Assembly, Mohammad Akbar Lone asked leader of opposition Mrs Mehbooba Mufti to confine her speech with regard to budget session. However, she disobeyed the Speaker’s direction by raising irrelevant issues in an effort to play to Press Gallery. The PDP leader instead of confining her […]
Is Social Media Helping or Hurting California Politics?
The following is a three part series funded by Spot.Us, written by Jackson West with editorial support from SFAppeal.com. The content is Creative Commons, but all three parties must be given attribution. Social Media Meets Politics: Pols Chasing Publicity Find Web Waters Welcoming Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other popular sites for publishing online have […]
Cold Fusion: The Ghost of Free Energy
Two decades ago a pair of eminent chemists claimed to find the secret of almost limitless energy, only to have their results dismissed several weeks later. Today many scientists think there was truth in the claims but, as Jon Cartwright discovers, few are still listening The late writer Arthur C Clarke had a knack for […]
A reminder to AIDS Pandemic in Darjeeling!
BY BARUN ROY Darjeeling on the verge of AIDS Pandemic’. The story had revolved around an investigation that had revealed that the HIV positive cases in the Hills and especially Darjeeling had exploded to a four digit number. And this was only four years after the first HIV case had been acknowledged in Darjeeling. The […]
Georgia, Russia, Serbia: The Use (or Abuse) of Some Historical Facts
Serbian bloggers follow closely the situation in the Caucasus region. Many of them compared and analyzed the Kosovo issue and the newest opportunities in South Ossetia. Some of them were careful to express their own thoughts and mainly cited thoughts of politicians. Here is a post by Aleksandar T, a Serbian blogger who quoted in his blog […]