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President Felipe Calderon says Mexico will start issuing nationwide identity cards for its citizens starting this year, and by 2012 everyone will have one. The cards will carry the bearer’s photograph. It will also include information on...
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We see today that the corruption has become order of the day. Political/Administrative every segment of the society is plagued with this menace.
Every step that the...
made popular Nov 27 2009
As far as I am concerned, India’s best political leader is Mahatma Gandhi. He did nothing for his family and himself. He did all the heard work to give us the...
made popular Nov 23 2009
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday that the United States could start holding Afghanistan’s government accountable for corruption by withholding money for...
made popular Nov 21 2009
Is India shining? Give me a break!
This piece of article is an un-well thought of thoughts that keep flashing in my mind. I am deeply concerned about a country that I...
made popular Nov 21 2009
Sierra Leone has launched an initiative to enlist boys as young as 10 as crime-fighting volunteers in Freetown.
Police chief Chris Charley said the capital, which is...
made popular Nov 20 2009
Courts have trouble convicting corrupt bureaucrats because colleagues help destroy incriminating evidence in a “scratch my back, I will scratch yours” syndicate, a...
made popular Nov 19 2009
For years, one of the defining images of the African political élite has been the silhouette of a figure sitting behind tinted glass or drawn curtains in the backseat...
made popular Nov 18 2009
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur...
made popular Nov 18 2009
Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances as part of the Communist party’s efforts to clamp down on...
made popular Nov 17 2009
Of late, this is being experienced that the hierarchy is turning blind eye towards public criticism. May be this is result of too much Mass media coverage of various...
made popular Nov 17 2009
It is really surprising but the truth is The Communist party in China is at honest about one thing it knows that with the salary given to the bureaucrats it is not...
made popular Nov 16 2009
The Attorney General of Afghanistan Mohammad Ishaq Aloko reported the completion of investigations on allegations of corruption against Cabinet Ministers.
While talking...
made popular Nov 14 2009
Mexican authorities have dismissed almost a quarter of all traffic police in the city of Monterrey for failing corruption and competence tests.
It is the latest move...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Don’t laugh — this is serious money!
Who denies that city guys are smart? Who says that the term city slickers is not correct? In recent years two stories of...
made popular Nov 12 2009
As Mauricio Fernandez Garza took the stage to be sworn in for the second time as the mayor of one of Latin America’s most wealthiest communities a broad smile...
made popular Nov 9 2009
One of my friends is enormously rich. I told him once—“Why don’t you donate something for a noble cause?”
He replied without the least hesitation, “Noble...
made popular Nov 7 2009
I was chatting with my American friend Bob on a chat site when he wrote.‘Hey you Indians are the biggest idiots. Look at the way a Chief Minister in India is erecting...
made popular Nov 6 2009
The noose is tightening around Madhu Koda. The former Jharkhand chief minister is likely to be arrested once he is released from the hospital. A summons was slapped on...
made popular Nov 5 2009
The Obama administration’s new “incentives and pressure” policy toward S Sudan confirms that it will resort to punishing errant African governments only after...
made popular Nov 4 2009
You may call me what you like but I am not convinced that we can take decisive/deterrent steps against terror. Almost a year has passed since 26/11 the promised, NSG...
made popular Nov 3 2009
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Kenya AGO summit to promote exports
Ten years since the African Growth Opportunity Act (Agoa) was established, Kenya has only taken advantage of about 12 out of 6,500...
made popular Jul 31 2009
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This March 6, 1865 photo by Henry F. Warren provided by the Collection Keya Morgan/LincolnImages.com, show the White House with several figures standing in front of it. Photography collector Keya Morgan says the photo is the only known photograph of...
