Articles
View all articles-
Inflated egos to mindless posturing: 7 deadly sins of BJP
The BJP is partly responsible for all the country's problems for it has not provided an effective opposition. It has no strategy worth speaking about. #Politics #India #Manmohan Singh #Congress #BJP #InMyOpinion #Congress party #Bhartiya Janata Party #BJP Crisis #Political News
-
Corruption and crime: How coal mafias fuel India's power crisis
Coal workers pay a cut to crime bosses to join their unions, which control access to jobs, according to law-enforcement and industry officials. Unions demand a "goon tax" from buyers, a fixed fee per tonne, before loading their coal. #HowThisWorks #Economy #Business #coal india #coal scam #power crisis #Coal mafia
-
ECB set for rate cut as inflation falls sharply
The European Central Bank is expected to cut its main interest rate for the first time in 10 months on Thursday, driven to act by an economy wallowing in recession and freed to do so by sharply falling inflation. #NewsTracker #European Central Bank #Eurozone crisis #Mario Draghi #Rate cut
Blog posts
View all blog posts-
Kingfisher crisis: Inflated egos lead to business disasters
Avoid investments in companies where managements let ego affect performance and this includes government-owned companies as well. #air india #ConnectTheDots #Kingfisher Airlines #Vijay Mallya #Kingfisher Crisis
-
Why does Al Jazeera call terror, just violence
Firstpost blogger Seema Sirohi defends her views on why she found Al Jazeera's show on the flight of North Eastern Indians from various cities uninformed. She's also confused as to why the channel calls a terror group as merely violent. #MediaCrit #Al Jazeera #north-east crisis
-
SBI chief has faith in Mallya, but how will he get the money?
SBI chairman Pratip Chaudhuri says the loss-making airline should keep running, but Mallya has to bring in fresh equity into Kingfisher. The question is, where is the money? #Vijay Mallya #Endgame #Kingfihser's Crisis
Wire
-
The Christian PostAbortion: Birth, Crisis Counseling Are Better Options
Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank which promotes market based public policy to fight poverty. It's pretty clear from the Grand Jury report that, during Gosnell' #Planned Parenthood Federation of America
-
This Is LondonComment: time for action to stop tragedy of Syria crisis
I have just spent three days in Beirut with Oxfam where I met Palestinian and Syrian refugees who have fled the fighting in the past few months. I met Lebanese school teachers, business owners, police officers, lawyers and aid workers. I wanted to know h #Syria #Beirut, Lebanon #Oxfam
-
Economic TimesGermans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle
BERLIN: Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel's tough stance in the euro zone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries voting. Denmark's Emmelie de #Berlin #Angela Merkel #Europe