Corruption and Unending Problems in Africa Africa is incontrovertibly blessed with an abundance of natural resources, especially land that is rich in all sorts of imaginable minerals. Hundreds and thousands of fertile tracts that are conducive for agriculture can be found nowhere else on the globe except in most African countries. Had these resources been […]
Visa restrictions overseas cause drop in US tourism
The Los Angeles Times today reported that the number of "overseas visitors to the U.S. has dropped 17% since its peak in 2000." In fact, this resulted to an estimated US$100 billion in lost visitor spending through 2005, it added. Travel and tourism analysts are not surprised at this development. They have observed that the sharp drop […]
Illegal aliens must learn to read, write and speak English
Kudos to the concerned members of the U.S. Senate who took the courage to consider immigration policies that would eventually encourage millions of illegal immigrants to come out from darkness and expose themselves to join the normal mainstream of American society. But some U.S. legislators are still remorseful at the way things turned out […]
Fruits of Research
Madam Hillary Clinton’s essay on child upbringing had appeared in Times Magazine when she was first lady of USA, the essay was quite informative and was based upon recent research findings, I had kept a copy of that essay with myself, in later years I also came across an encyclopedia written by an Australian […]
A judgement caste in stone
The Supreme Court stay on OBC reservation is among several judgements unsympathetic to ‘lesser’ castes. The judiciary has to be socially accountable K. VEERAMANI On November 25, 1949, Dr BR Ambedkar sounded a grave warning in the Constituent Assembly: "On January 26, 1950, we will have equality in politics and inequality in social and economic […]
Polity of Jammu and Kashmir: Skewed to favour a few
Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India: Jammu and Kashmir has been accorded a special status in the constitutional scheme of things in India. J&K unlike any other state in India has its own constitution, own flag as well as state penal code. As a result of the unique constitutional arrangement, the State Assembly has been accorded […]
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