Warren Buffett told to 'shut up' for wanting more taxes on rich
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says Buffett should “just write a check and shut up”. Ouch!
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Nine-year-old shoots classmate in Washington state
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Jennifer Aniston puts name in star on Walk of Fame
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Nobel Peace Prize: Honour Edhi, the Mahatma of our time
It’s puzzling that the Nobel Committee has ignored him this long as they did Gandhi.
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Syria: Why we can’t afford the death of journalists
When it comes to war zones, the world needs to listen to the voices of the subjects and the storytellers. We can’t afford the deaths of either.
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From any branch banking to any booth voting
Any Booth Voting will be a boon for travellers as well as economic migrants who have to live away from their constituency to earn a living.
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Whiter shade of pale: What are lily-white women doing in Bollywood?
Even as our actresses try to look more like Cameron Diaz, with their blonde streaks and skin whitening treatments, we have an influx of lily-white foreigners who are being bronzed and tanned – and not very well – to be made to look more desi.
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A weak yen means a fresh potential bonanza for equities
A weakening yen coupled with higher interest rates in emerging markets means we could see a tsunami of fresh equity investments from Japan
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Citizen candidates failed: Do cribbers really want change?
Nothing else, but the unconcern of non-voting cribbers, will explain the victory of only 1 of the 79 candidates put up by the citizen groups across the city.
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Does your designation really matter?
Beyond setting an internal pecking order within the organisation, from an employee’s perspective, what is the utility of this tag?
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Why we can not accept ‘this’ Sachin
Tendulkar has more cricket left in him – good, world-class cricket. But he isn’t playing it today and that is the only issue.
Want to study and work in the UK? Think twice
The recent changes to UK visa rules kick-in from April 2012 and may spell an end to the country being the favourite destination for prospective Indian students.
#Education #HowThisWorks #Theresa May #United Kingdom #Visas
Phone-hacking scandal: Cherie Blair sues News of the World
Cherie Blair, barrister and wife of former prime minister Tony Blair, has sued the now-defunct News of the World over hacking of her phone.
#Cherie Blair #News of the World #NewsTracker #Rupert Murdoch
Demographic nightmare ahead: China risks Japan-style stagnation
With a rapidly ageing population and falling birth rate, the only way out is to shift the Chinese growth model from cheap labour and capital to one focused on innovation and productivity.
#China #Demographic divident #Income #labour #ThisisNextPolling close with Romney in Michigan, Santorum needs headway in Arizona debate
Santorum needs to build on his momentum going into the Arizona and Michigan primaries on 28 February and pave the way for Super Tuesday on 6 March.
#Arizona #Mitt Romney #Rick Santorum #Ron Paul #US2012 #USelectionsArgentine commuter train crashes, kills 49 people
Passengers said the force of the collision propelled the second train car inside the first carriage, trapping dozens of people in the wreckage alongside the busy platforms at Once station.
#Argentina #Buenos Aires #NewsTracker #Train accidentChavez surgery shrouds Venezuela into uncertainty
With a tight re-election campaign brewing for the president, analysts said Wednesday that Venezuela could be thrown into turmoil because Chavez has resisted grooming a successor during his 13 years in power.
#Cuba #Hugo Chávez #NewsTracker #VenezuelaObama proposes minimum tax on foreign earnings
The proposed move would make it a bit tough for US multinationals to ship jobs overseas and will give incentives to those who bring operations back into the US.
#Barack Obama #United States #US2012Karzai urges calm as US apologies fail to contain Afghan anger
The US government and the American commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan apologized after Afghan laborers found charred copies of the Koran while collecting rubbish at the sprawling Bagram Airbase, about an hour’s drive north of Kabul.
#Afghanistan #Hamid Karzai #Koran #NewsTracker #United StatesEgypt’s Mubarak set to be sentenced on 2nd June
Cairo: An Egyptian judge on Wednesday set 2nd June as the date for the verdict and sentencing in the trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, which could put the man who spent nearly 30 years as one of the Arab world’s key strongmen on death row. Mubarak is accused of complicity in the killing of [...]
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