Climate change is one of the most controversial topics included in the Asian Development Bank’s 40th Annual Meeting in Kyoto, Japan, on May 6-7 this year. The ADB said in a dispatch that more than 3000 participants have already registered at the Kyoto International Conference Center. The conference is expected to bring in senior officials within the Asia-Pacific region […]
Freedom and Liberty
Freedom and liberty what do those words mean? Are there universally understood and excepted meanings for these words? The dictionary defines freedom as the condition of being free from restraints and the capacity to exercise free choice. Liberty is defined as the right and power to act, believe, and express oneself in the manner […]
TB wake-up call for Africa
The recent emergence of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in South Africa is not only the result of poor treatment adherence by TB patients. It stems from years of neglect endured by TB programmes throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The current scale of the region’s drug resistance challenge is poorly understood, and African TB programmes are […]
Can the Leaping Cat Defy Extinction?
Jaguar Sale Inevitable Unless Corporate Change Means Profitability Conversing with Jaguar representatives or motor industry analysts and ‘change’ is the recurring word that crosses their lips. One of Britain’s most historic car companies is facing up to the reality of a far from certain future. An internal analysis of Jaguar prepared for Ford executives […]
Low Cost Technology Saves Poor
Most Zimbabweans – about 70 per cent of the population – live in rural areas and are engaged in smallholder agriculture. These smallholder farmers, particularly in the country’s low rainfall areas, are extremely food insecure and have little or no access to new technology. They suffer from low incomes and a generally low standard of living, […]
Article 209 of Pakistan Constitution empowers President to take action against a judge
In clause five of article 209 of Pakistan Constitution it is mentioned that if on information received from the Council or any other source, the president is of the opinion that a judge of the Supreme Court or of a High Court ,- (a) may be incapable of properly performing the duties of his […]