If grand buildings, with colorful layout and impressive designs lack essence and purpose, they are mere nuisances since it is not the buildings alone that matter, the real significance belongs to the joie de vivre brewing within its premises and its usefulness to the outside world. Academic campuses are a telling example of enormous buildings [...]
Building Institutions – OpEd
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Britain Preparing For New Falklands War?
A series of military options are being considered by UK defense chiefs as tension mounts between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands, a report by the Sunday Telegraph claims. Extra troops, warships and Typhoon combat aircraft could be dispatched to the islands if needed, ahead of the March 11 referendum on the island’s future, [...]
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Hip Hop Hijabis Explore Gender Equality – OpEd
By Mette Reitzel A recent parliamentary report in the UK reveals that some Muslim women are removing their headscarves and anglicizing their names to improve their chances in the job market. Two best friends featured in the upcoming documentary film Hip Hop Hijabis did the exact opposite. Born in Bristol to Jamaican parents, they converted [...]
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Obama Calls For Action On Gun Violence
By Michael Bowman Tuesday, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is expected to unveil recommendations for curbing gun violence in America, which claims thousands of lives each year. The recommendations come one month after a deadly shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school that re-ignited a long-simmering debate on gun control. Gunfire erupted on December 14 [...]
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‘We Won’t Sell Our Healthcare’: Madrid Rallies Against Privatized Medical
Thousands swarmed the streets of Madrid enraged at a bill to privatize public hospitals as part of sweeping cuts. The ‘white tide’ of protesters slammed the measure as ‘politically motivated’ and putting the Spanish health system in jeopardy. Most of the participants of the mass rally were dressed in white, which has come to be [...]
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Middle East Soccer Associations Campaign For Women’s Right To Play
Middle Eastern soccer associations have launched a campaign to put women’s soccer on par with men’s football in a region in which a woman’s right to play and pursue an athletic career remains controversial and at a time at which political Islam is on the rise. The associations announced the campaign at the end of [...]
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Six Men Who Raped Girl ‘Should Be Hung Oublicly’ – Indian Expert
By Irina Maksimenko Neela Sawhny, a social figure, women’s rights activist and head of the Udayan Care charity, has shared her take on the recent rape cases in India in an interview with the Voice of Russia. Neela Sawhny: Recent rape cases show that there’s little or no fear of the law in India. The [...]
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UN Seeks Calm After Serbia Monument Protest
By Marija Ristic and Edona Peci The UN appealed for an easing of tensions after a demonstration sparked by Belgrade’s removal of a controversial memorial to Albanian guerrillas in Presevo. The United Nations is “following developments in the Presevo valley and is appealing for calm”, said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s spokesperson, Martin Nesirky. “The [...]
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Macedonia’s Feuding Leaders Agree To Meet
By Sinisa Jakov Marusic Macedonia’s Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, head of the main ruling VMRO DPMNE party, has called for a face-to-face meeting with opposition leader Branko Crvenkovski of the Social Democrats, which the latter has accepted. “Macedonia has faced all sorts of challenges, which it managed to solve… through wise and responsible behaviour… and [...]
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Little-Known Dutchman Takes Over As Eurogroup Chair
(EurActiv) — The Eurogroup yesterday (21 January) appointed Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem as its president for a two-and-a-half year term that can be renewed. Spain was the only country to abstain. Dijsselbloem’s appointment was backed by 16 of the 17 eurozone finance ministers. France too had previously expressed reservations but at the end its [...]
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China Challenges U.S. Statements On Island Dispute
By Shannon Van Sant China’s foreign ministry is pushing back on statements from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about a chain of islands claimed by both Japan and China. The Secretary’s comments provoked a critical response from officials and state-backed media. Friday, Clinton met with the Japanese foreign minister and said the United States [...]
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Russian Supreme Court OKs U.S. Adoptions Before January 1
(RFE/RL) — Russia’s Supreme Court says all Russian children whose adoptions by U.S. families were approved by Russian courts before January 1, 2013, are eligible to go to their new families. The clarification was posted on the website of the Supreme Court on January 22. On January 1, a controversial bill banning adoptions of Russian [...]
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A Few Questions To China On Hand Of Friendship – OpEd
By Bhaskar Roy It was very welcome to read in China’s official news agency Xinhua (Jan. 11) some parts of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The letter was carried by state Councillor Dai Bingguo who was in New Delhi to attend a BRICS meeting of Senior [...]
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Shinde: Prejudiced And Partisan Stewardship Of MHA – OpEd
Rediff.com has reported as follows: “In a statement that is expected to erupt a huge political row, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Sunday (January 20, 2013), “The RSS and BJP are running terrorist training camps to spread Hindu terrorism.”He mentioned the Samjhauta Express and Malegaon blasts to further enhance his point as he addressed [...]
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Putrajaya, Malaysia’s Admn. Capital, To Have 1st Hindu Temple
Putrajaya, the seat of Malaysia government, will have its first Hindu temple in the near future. Reports suggest that the required approval has been granted and after groundbreaking ceremonies in March, construction of the about 17,000 square feet two-storey structure of this about RM 12 million Sri Lalithambikai Alayam Temple on a one-acre plot will [...]
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Why India Will Not Retaliate? – OpEd
By Neha Kumar Tiwari The decapitated bodies of two Indian soldiers at Line of Control (LOC) have brought the peace process between India and Pakistan at halt. This was followed by series of ceasefire violations. Indian Army Chief declared in a press conference that ‘we will retaliate if provoked and we will choose date and [...]
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Egyptian Prosecutor Submits New Evidence In Bid To Preempt Violent Soccer Protests – Analysis
Egypt’s public prosecutor has submitted new evidence in the case against 73 people accused of responsibility for the death a year ago of 72 soccer fans in a politically loaded brawl in a bid to delay a verdict scheduled for January 26 that is certain to spark violent protests. Hassan Yassin, the prosecutor’s spokesman, did [...]
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Chavez Undergoing Physical Therapy, Says Bolivian President
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is undergoing physical therapy to hasten his return home from Cuba after surgery last month for the cancer that has threatened to end his 14-year rule, Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Tuesday, Jan 22, according to Reuters. The comments by Morales, a fellow leftist and close friend of Chavez, added [...]
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U.S. Home Sales Rise In 2012 To Highest Level Since 2007
U.S. sales of previously occupied homes rose in 2012 to their highest level in five years, spurred higher by record-low mortgage rates and steady hiring, The Associated Press reports. The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday, Jan 22, that sales reached 4.65 million last year. That’s up 9.2 percent from 2011 and the most since [...]
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Prosecution Of War Criminals In Bangladesh: The Verdict Starts Coming – Analysis
By Anand Kumar In its first verdict in the trial of war criminals in Bangladesh, the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh has sentenced Abul Kalam Azad, a former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, to death for crimes against humanity. He was found guilty in absentia on eight charges. Azad, also known as Bachchu Razakar, is suspected [...]
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