Jammu, March 22, (Scoop News)-The congress legislature party leader, Rigzin Jora, calls the budget a damp squib. Terming it nothing new except for change in idiom and jargon, he asked where does Haseeb Drabu’s so called expertise as an economist gone. If anything one sees Drabu’ s journalistic acumen taking over from the economist. Mere […]
Ukraine heading for trouble amid Western-Russian rivalry
It is a strategic tug-of-war between the West and Russia over Ukraine. Diplomatic wrangles, massive protests in Ukraine, prospects of a European-Union alliance amid threats and inducement by Moscow have turned Ukraine into a political hot potato in the post cold-war era. Ukraine, which won independence after the collapse of the Soviet in 1991, is […]
News from “Rolling Stone”
I obsessively read the September 29, 2011 Rolling Stone, which I found at the free table of the Formerly Yours Thrift Shop, here in Phoenicia, New York. The most startling facts were: Mick Jagger has joined SuperHeavy, the first band he’s ever been in besides the Rolling Stones. It consists of a son of Bob […]