An Egyptian court sentenced 529 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death for murder and other offenses on Monday in a sharp escalation of a crackdown on the movement that is likely to fuel instability. Family members stood outside the courthouse screaming after the verdict, which Continue Reading
The New York Times on Tuesday corrected a 161-year-old story about Solomon Northup, whose memoir was the basis for the Academy Award-winning movie “12 Years a Slave.” The January 20, 1853, article, headlined “The Kidnapping Case,” tells the story of Northup, a black man born free in the northern United States, who was kidnapped in […]Continue Reading
Imagine growing up in a modern day society. Everywhere you look there are images of beauty, representations of how beautiful people are supposed to look; flawless and thin. You grow up believing that this unattainable image is the only image of beauty. As you look in the mirror and see only flaws in your reflection, […]Continue Reading
Global Marketing in the simplest description attempts to understand customers in terms of what they buy, when they buy, why they buy, how much they buy, where they buy it, and with what they buy. Internationally, this means understanding culture. How marketing efforts interact with culture determines the success or failure of a product. There […]Continue Reading
It is very common to hear about human rights…now here’s something out of the ordinary, 39 year old activist politician Remus Cernea introduced a bill in parliament last week which would recognize the marine mammals as “non human persons,” because of their heir highly developed intelligence, personalities and behavior patterns. With a letter of support […]Continue Reading
After a rebel held town in Syria had been bombed and shelled in an operation which has caused fears of a major assault by ground troops, thousands of people have fled from the town, according to the United Nations (UN). The fighting came as the peace talks in Geneva came to the end of a […]Continue Reading
A book titled “The Hindus: An Alternative History,” by a professor at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School Wendy Doniger apparently gives an unorthodox view of Hinduism. Due to this criticism was made by conservative Hindus and some scholars and the book’s unorthodox view of Hinduism, it has been withdrawn from sales. Penguin Books India […]Continue Reading
Belgium has become the first country to allow euthanasia for the terminally ill children of any age on Thursday when its lower house of parliament passed new “right-to-die” legislation by a large majority. The law goes beyond Dutch legislation that set a minimum age of 12 for children judged mature enough to decide to end […]Continue Reading
There are many organizations and corporations, big and small that choose to take advantage of globalization. The movement of globalization in businesses today have in many ways saved a lot of businesses from going into bankruptcy or helped them in many areas where they may have otherwise fell short on their bottom line. Globalization has […]Continue Reading
A plot owned by the Sahara Group in the western suburb of Versova and valued by global property consultant Knight Frank at a jaw-dropping Rs 19,300 crore may actually be worth nothing. The 106-acre plot, with mangroves, mudflats and a creek, falls under the stringent coastal regulation zone (CRZ), where no development is permitted. It […]Continue Reading