WAR AS ENTERTAINMENT Responsible media would have reported on the causes of Somalian piracy
OMG, pirates! Headlines around the country squealed with glee as our Navy SEALS — the Easter SEALS — took out the Somalian baddies, freed the newest American hero and helped President Obama with the “dodging of a PR bullet,” as USA Today put it. Meanwhile,
Dollar & More
One of the concrete outcomes from last w e e k ’ s G - 2 0 summit in London was the decision to revive the International Monetary Fund with a cash infusion of $500 billion. The move was aimed primarily at shoring up ailing Eastern European economies,
The War on Women IN AFGHANISTAN
As the presid e n t i a l e l e c t i o n s e a s o n arrived in Afghanista n, the incumbent Hamid Karzai sprang a nasty surprise on the country’s Hazara Shiite women by signing on to a ‘rape law’ that legitimizes non-consensual sex in wedlock.
Mumbai journalist Shishir Joshi, who stepped down recently after four years as editorial director of Mid-Day
In Mumbai’s boisterous media world, DNA is not the stuff of crime sleuths but the masthead of Daily News & Analysis, a bright and breezy newspaper that is quite prepared to put a half-page ad on the top of its front page.
WIEF meet puts India on world map
Philadelphia: The faculty and students of the Wharton School organized the 13th Annual Wharton India Economic Forum conference on March 21.
India’s financial sector sound, assures AhluwaliaMore room for interest cut; high deficit not to hamper FDI; 7% growth rate achievable.
The deputy chairman of the Planning Commission and the brain behind the economic resurgence of India, Dr.Montek Singh Ahluwalia told the 13th Annual Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) through a video link from New Delhi that India’s financial sector was sound and India’s central bank has “more room” to cut interest rates further to combat economic slowdown and a global recession.
‘Indian Banks Robust People’s Money Safe’
Chanda Kochhar, ICICI bank’s joint managing director and the bank’s new CEO, firmly believes that Indian banks and the money of people is much safer as compared to their counterparts around the world.
Gandhi’s glasses and a rabbit’s head
Barely had the controversy about the sabotage of the auction of two Chinese bronze fountainheads in Paris broken out when a parallel drama has begun to unfold about the personal belongings of Mahatma Gandhi being paraded for auction in New York.
Power play behind BANGLADESH’S MUTINY
As the body count from the bloody mutiny by t h e Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) crosses 140 amid the exhuming of fresh graves, questions arise whether this pre-planned event could have been motivated by simple economic grievances.
UN Security Council reform process has to make real progress
The debate over the reform at the United Nations has been around the future of the organization’s top decision-making body, the Security Council.
Nikkitasha Marwaha
of America
crowned
Miss India
Worldwide 2009
Nikkitasha Marwaha, an Indian-American from Chicago beat 24 contestants from all over the world to clinch the 18th Miss India Worldwide crown at a glittering event in Durban, South Africa, attended by over 2,000 from around the world last month.
Jai Ho India Shines At Oscar Awards Night
It was an amazing night for India and its more than a billion people at the 81st Academy Awards held in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, February 22, 2009. ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ won eight Oscars during a glittering ceremony that was watched live around the world by millions.
HOME SAFE HOME
At a recent gathering of central b a n k e r s in Kuala Lumpur, the IMF’s Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn conceded that advanced economies are “already in a depression”.
Controversies and Omissions
in the PBS Documentary
THE STORY OF INDIA
The show “The Story of India” is about the history, the religion and the culture of India. India has thousands of years of history, diversified religious thought processes and varied cultures.
Nuclear trade on the go after the deal with US
BY RITU PANDEY The nuclear deal between India and the United States signed last year has opened up new opportunities for nuclear trade between India and the United States. And the push to enter the multi-billion dollar Indian market now opened to global trade, has already been felt.
Developing world is poorer than we thought: World Bank
Despite being the fourth largest economy in the world, a large percentage of India’s population lives in absolute poverty, earning a meager $1 a day.
Developing world is poorer than we thought: World Bank
Despite being the fourth largest economy in the world, a large percentage of India’s population lives in absolute poverty, earning a meager $1 a day.
The U.S., Pakistan and the Law of Unintended Consequences Art courtesy of The Globalist
With Pervez Musharraf on the way out, and on the heels of news that the Bush Administration is diverting funds from counter-terrorism operations to upgrade Pakistan’s F-16s, Pakistan’s role in U.S. national security policy is again in question. Sreeram Chaulia argues that U.S. military..
