Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday left Ludhiana as he had come by train, joining top leaders of the party enforcing austerity measures amid a drought....

I went to the DMV yesterday. I know. That is enough to elicit sympathy for me. Yes. For those who do not know what the DMV means, it is an abbreviation for the...

Only ten years from now, our children may ask us what a Prime Minister of India looked like. By that time, there would perhaps be no post of a Prime Minister at the...

Brazilian Congress Here in Brazil there is a very common expression in the political, journalistic and academic world respect to the ability of certain elites have to...

Interestingly enough the word ‘democracy’ comes from the Greek ‘democratis’ - For those of you that don’t know the Ancient Greeks operated...

All the characters in the article are imaginary and have no resemblance to any person living or dead. Any co–incidence is purely co–incidental. Priyanka is a...

I recently watched the last HBO special of George Carlin ‘It’s Bad for Ya’ where the made a passing mention of ‘Leadership Camp’ in his list of raves and...

The cold-blooded and well-coordinated Mumbai operation involving a batch of college-going-type terrorists has raised many questions. We have been forced to doubt the...

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that the government is fully cognizant of the utter necessity of national leadership and ownership to fight a campaign...

I am a retired army officer now growing apples in Chhajpur, Shimla. No, please stop being envious of me. Today my pension is Rs 15500/- per month after having put in 33...

Brazil’s National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) fell to a one-year low of 0.26 percent in September, down from 0.28 percent in August and up from 0.18 percent in...

As worrisome, alarming, unsettling, scary or [choose your adjective] as the spreading, worldwide financial crisis and its effects may be, try this statistic on for...

The president of Nigeria on return from his “pilgrimage” on lesser Hajj to the holy land of Saudi Arabia on September 8 2008 did something that was not...

Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security says that Google’s new browser Chrome

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has declared that granting the right to vote to regular immigrants is not included in the goverment’s plans. This put an end...

The Swedish government has announced plans to clamp down hard on religious education. It will soon become illegal even for private faith schools to teach religious...

As speculated, Chairperson of Nepal Communist Party Maoist Mr. Pushpa Kamal Dahal is elected as a first executive prime minister of Republic Nepal. After the 12 years...

Scores of Delhi government hospitals still handling piles of papers and hard copy of medical records shall soon be able to do without it - they are set to go...

The other day while stuck up in a traffic jam I started watching a street corner play Actors playing the role of public were shouting GALI GALI MAIN SHOR HAI HAMARE...

Singing sensation Ishmeet Singh, who died in the Maldives on Tuesday, will be given a state funeral in his native town Ludhiana tomorrow by the Punjab Government.