A file photo of traders working at the crude oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange in New York. – Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – The price of oil fell to near $93 on Wednesday after the publication of disappointing economic growth figures in Europe, with the 17-country eurozone languishing in its longest […]
Lora Saalman, a Beijing-based associate in the Nuclear Policy Programme at the Carnegie Endowment. Photo: Mohammed Yousuf – Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – China, concerned over India’s policy on Indian Ocean, wants to establish posts in countries like Sri Lanka and Seychelles, said Dr. Lora Saalman, an American expert on arms control. […]
– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – A week into the Emergency when the relationship between the Congress government at the Centre and the DMK government in Tamil Nadu was becoming increasingly hostile, Labour and Housing Minister K. Rajaram asked a U.S. diplomatic representative in Chennai whether the U.S. would give assistance to the State if […]
– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday urged the Centre and Supreme Court to reconsider their stand against authorising Tamil as official language in Madras High Court and said administration of justice needs to be taken closer to the people. A recent communication from the Centre had indicated […]
– Submitted by Walter jayawardhana – Former Union Minister and DMK’s south zone organising secretary M K Alagiri’s supporters perhaps did not realise that not attending a birthday party would cost them so dear. But then they should have, considering the party was none other than Alagiri’s bete noire and younger brother M K Stalin’s. […]
North Korea has moved what appears to be a mid-range Musudan missile to its east coast, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said on Thursday, quoting multiple government sources privy to intelligence from U.S. and South Korean authorities. It was not clear if the missile was mounted with a warhead or whether the North was planning […]
(CNN) — Internet users around the globe are facing slowed-down service, thanks to what’s being called the biggest cyberattack in history. The prolonged denial-of-service assault is targeting The Spamhaus Project, a European spam-fighting group that has gone after CyberBunker, a data-storage company that offers to host any content “except child porn and anything related to […]
– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – In further signs of fissures within the DMK, party chief M. Karunanidhi’s son M.K. Alagiri on Monday skipped the crucial Executive committee meet, which is likely to take key decisions in the wake of the party’s pullout from the ruling UPA at the Centre. […]
To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From: Tomas Young I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds […]
LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — The terror lasted less than two minutes: Smoke poured from a hot air balloon carrying sightseers on a sunrise flight over the ancient city of Luxor, it burst in a flash of flame and then plummeted about 1,000 feet to earth. A farmer watched helplessly as tourists trying to escape the […]
Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana Thanks to India’s intervention, the crisis in the Maldives has blown over with the former President, Mohamed Nasheed, emerging out of the Indian High Commission in Male on Saturday. Fearing arrest, he had sought refuge at the High Commission office on February 13. […]
Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana Welcome to the land of the Buddha. A breather from most other religious destinations, which, ironically, reel under chaos, Kushinagar – the place where Gautam Buddha breathed his last – is a place where you can pray in peace or simply soak in the beauty of the architectural marvels and the […]
