Noted International Film Celebrity, Film Movie Director Mani Ratnam’s sixteen year old son Nandan Maniratnam, is attending the CPI(M)’s 19 th All India Party Congress presently being held at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. He was seen helping as a volunteer to help the foreign delegates who had come to attend the party congress as special invitees.He […]
Brazil: Blogs banned from the 2008 elections
by Paula Góes Brazil is warming up for local elections later this year, in October, when voters will go to the polls to choose their local government representatives. The Supreme Electoral Court [the TSE, the Portuguese acronym for Tribunal Superior Eleitoral] has just passed the regulations for voting, and again, the opportunity to better discuss […]
26,000 Share Top Health Concerns in AFL-CIO Survey
by Mike Hall, Mar 25, 2008 In Veneta, Ore., Dorene relies on a unique form of health care coverage. The laid-off manufacturing worker, whose job was shipped overseas in 2006, says she is: "on the faith-based health care system. I pray I don’t get sick. Oh yeah, I’m a cancer survivor and I haven’t done […]
Zardari or Nawaz Can Be the Next President
Helpless victims of General Pervez Musharraf for years, Mian Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, who were in political wilderness until just a few months ago and who have suddenly become the virtual controllers of the country’s destiny, realise that they have to get even with the establishment through a systematic, comprehensive and calculated joint […]
TRINITY, Confused? You won’t be until you read this!
TRINITY, Confused? You won’t be until you read this! We all know that the word Trinity is not found anywhere in the Bible. It was Tertullian who coined the word in the last decade of the second century and became a church creed only in the forth century. It is the distinctive and comprehensive of […]
151,000 Iraqis Dead According To New Study
The number of Iraqi deaths due to nationwide violence is about twenty-five percent of the figures given by the Lancet article which is being disputed at the moment. But, this number is three times higher than the number taken by the Iraq Body Count campaigning group. These figures are from the results based on interviews […]