27 October 2008

Japan’s stocks dropped to the lowest in more than two decades (26 YEARS!) on concern tumbling share values will drag down capital at financial companies. [Via Bloomberg]
Syria protested to the US, saying American military helicopters carried out a raid yesterday on its territory bordering Iraq that killed eight people. [Via Bloomberg]
Oil is trading at 64$ [...]

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Many Singurs must be saved

Recently one of my friends made the effort to explain it to me that where West Bengal lost out, Gujarat made most of the opportunity. Really? One man’s poison cannot be another man’s manna. No way.
That the so called leftists in West Bengal – the Communist Marxists to be precise – were too happy to [...]

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It’s all about POWER (Money)

NY Times has published an article, written by Somini Sengupta, “Hindu Threat to Christians: Convert or Flee“
Obviously aimed at an American readership, Sengupta writes, “India is no stranger to religious violence between Christians, who make up about 2 percent of the population, and India’s Hindu-majority of 1.1 billion people. But this most recent spasm is [...]

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