It is important to bust a myth reinforced by the generic expression of despair that Delhi has turned into a crime capital of India. In terms of number of crimes registered per 100,000 residents, Delhi, a city of 16 million people, is not the worst city in the country. India’s smaller cities are far worse [...]
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By Michael Felsen It’s been a hard week for Boston. A native New Yorker, I’ve lived in this town for close to forty years. My wife and I raised three boys who hawked Coke and peanuts in the grandstands at Fenway Park, and cheered on the Celtics at Boston Garden. And for many years, we [...]
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Astronomers have found a galaxy turning gas into stars with almost 100 percent efficiency, a rare phase of galaxy evolution that is the most extreme yet observed. The findings come from the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer in the French Alps, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. “Galaxies burn gas like [...]
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The most comprehensive evaluation of temperature change on Earth’s continents over the past 1,000 to 2,000 years indicates that a long-term cooling trend–caused by factors including fluctuations in the amount and distribution of heat from the sun, and increases in volcanic activity–ended late in the 19th century. The study also finds that the 20th century [...]
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U.S. investigators have questioned the parents of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects in the Russian republic of Dagestan as they try to determine what might have influenced their sons in the months before the attack. The American authorities, working with Russian security forces, interviewed both parents Tuesday night and called back the suspects’ mother, [...]
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Aleksandar Vulin, director of government’s Office for Kosovo, said he is resigning in protest against the conclusion of a landmark deal with Kosovo, which he said ought to have gone to a referendum. Vulin told Serbian public service broadcaster, RTS, on Tuesday evening that he resigning as head of the government office on Kosovo after [...]
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There is an urgent need to better understand lone wolf terrorism, in general, and the Breivik case, specifically, placing the threat in the right context. This analysis is based on the principles of transformative learning theory, an educational aspect of adult learning theory, probing the life experiences that transformed Breivik’s worldview and drove him to [...]
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Daniel Bodirsky After days of media ruminating on the identity of the Boston bombers, it emerged that the suspects are in fact of Chechen descent. What followed was a predictable torrent of simplistic characterizations, portraying the Chechens as a people with a long history of global Islamic radicalism. This is however false on a number [...]
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Book review on Ndue Ukaj’s “The Crate of Salvation,” poetry volume, published by Drita Publishing House, Prizren, Kosovo (2012) By Anton Gojçaj, Albanian writer from Tuzi, Montenegro: Translated in English: Peter Tase In all his poetry, from its micro to macro structures, somewhere in a very lucid style and in other place expressed very implicitly, [...]
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Over the last month the media has led the world to believe that North Korea, the United states and South Korea are standing ‘eye ball to eye ball’ on the brink of war. Secretary Kerry’s comments after meeting with his Chinese opposites State Councilor Yang Jiechi, and Foreign Minister Yang Yi, and later President Xi [...]
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Rosneft JV Projects S.A., an indirect 100% subsidiary of Rosneft said Wednesday that pursuant to Article 41, paragraph 2, letter c) of the Consob Regulation no. 11971/1999, that on April 23, 2013 it completed the acquisition of 130,290,883 shares of Saras S.p.A. (representing approximately 13.70% of the issued share capital of Saras S.p.A.), for a [...]
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(EurActiv) — A newly published report on a corrupt deal for the repayment of the Angola debt to Russia in the early 1990s was presented in the European Parliament yesterday (23 April) as a vivid example of the plundering that can take place in developing nations with the complicity of European banks and tax havens. [...]
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The topic of my last article published in Eurasia Review a week ago was “Election and Bloodshed Threat,” in which I had reiterated that perpetrators are getting arms and funds from abroad and want to plunge the country into anarchy and then into civil war. I had also highlighted the threat of bloodshed during the [...]
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By Ashok Bhan Those who watched the footage of orderly public behavior and response of emergency services soon after the Boston marathon blasts will realize how much India has to learn as a society to respond to a terror attack. No crowding, no slogan shouting, no protests and of course no questions asked whether it [...]
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By Kunkhen Dorji The upcoming general elections in Bhutan will see many new faces at the grass root level, but the same cannot be said about their party’s leadership who have served Bhutan in many distinguished fields. The Opposition are quite critical about the first elected government of Bhutan, but are not able to provide [...]
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At least 124 people were killed when a building housing five garment factories collapsed outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Wednesday morning, police said. “The death is now 124, most of them women,” said deputy police chief of Dhaka district A.B.M Masud Hossain. Hospitals in and around Savar were overwhelmed with patients with serious injuries, [...]
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By Karen Parrish With his visit to China nearly complete, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said today he has been afforded good access to senior Chinese leaders, junior leaders and future leaders. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during a media roundtable that one thread common to the meetings he’s attended [...]
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A 60 Minutes report which aired on Sunday provided a glimpse of the 9/11 Museum in New York, currently under construction and scheduled to open next year. The report underlined the degree to which 9/11 has become a pillar in America’s national mythology. For many Americans the events of that day clearly hold more significance [...]
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Hundreds of Europeans are fighting with rebel forces in Syria against the regime of President Bashar Al Assad, the EU’s anti-terror chief told the BBC. Gilles de Kerchove estimates there are currently around 500 European fighters in Syria, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Those estimated to have the highest numbers of fighters in Syria include [...]
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The microbial population in the air of the New York City subway system is nearly identical to that of ambient air on the city streets. This research, published ahead of print in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, establishes an important baseline, should it become necessary to monitor the subway’s air for dispersal of potentially [...]
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