Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is set to start selling diesel from over 1,400 petrol pumps across India from October this year. These operations are run jointly by RIL and Essar Oil in India. Diesel will be sold at the market price, without subsidy. Within a few years of getting into the petro-retailing business, RIL had […]
Moran calls for intelligence assessment to evaluate the threat of Al-Shabab
On November 26, 2013 Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas sent me an email regarding calling for an assessment of the Al-Shabab terrorist threat. This is in part what he had to say: “I also introduced an amendment which requests a classified, joint intelligence assessment from the Departments of State and Defense and the Director of […]
NIELIT sub-centre to be opened at Leh :Dr. Killi
Srinagar, May 23 (Scoop News) –Union Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Dr. Killi Kruparani, inaugurated Lecture Block and R&D Lab at National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) at SIDCO Electronics Complex, Rangreth here today. Union Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) Sh. J. Satyanarayana and Union Joint Secretary […]
The Seven D’s of Stroke Survival
A stroke occurs when the blood supply to the brain is cut off by an artery in the brain that either ruptures or is blocked, cutting off critical oxygen supply to neurons. Approximately 80 percent of neurons die within three hours of the time that oxygen is cut off; therefore, rapid action is critical to […]
Organizational Know-How, by Phin Upham
Organizations seem to be good at things – but how can we understand what it means for an organization to be good at things? Is it the people or something between them? A review of a seminal work by Phin Upham. As the title of their paper Measuring Competence? implies, Rebecca Henderson and Iain Cockburn are […]
Black Panthers gearing up for "National Day of Action"
The New Black Panther Party, a group described by many as being the largest organized anti-Semitic and racist Black militants in America, has used troubling language to describe several of the events scheduled to be held Saturday, April 23, in New York City, Washington, DC and about 40 other cities across the United States during its "National Day of Action. […]