Archive : News + Politics

Many of us have tried our luck in a number of sweepstakes that keep sprouting every other month with some exciting rewards or prizes. However, from the month of August to December this year, a very different type of sweepstakes has been initiated, where in the winner won’t be swimming in a pool of a million dollars, but will have an once in a lifetime [...]

One of the most advanced East Asian countries, South Korea, has now decided to integrate technology even deeper in the society, as the better half of the Korean peninsula is gearing up for a significant overhaul of the public education system. The South Korean ministry of education has now unveiled its plans of digitizing the entire education system [...]

In the global population of over 6 billion people, there is hardly an individual who hasn’t heard about one of the biggest natural disasters ever to struck Japan in the form of the earthquake and the resulting tsunami that had caused widespread destruction and has brought the country the threshold of one of the gravest nuclear crisis of all times. [...]

According to international media, the request was made by the law firm of Assange two weeks ago, with the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO), an organization that takes care of intellectual property in that region. The request covers the use of the mark Julian Assange in public activities (lectures), service journalism, news, texts, education services, [...]

A couple of days ago, the invitations for Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey on 29 April made waves and garnered much media attention. Everyone was talking about the invitation card and there was plenty of speculation about who was on the guest list and who had been left out. In the days to come, there is [...]

After 18 days of intense and violent protests that took several cities of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak the dictator, 82, gave up power after leading a dictatorship with an iron fist for 30 years. The announcement was made by Vice-President of Egypt, Omar Suleiman, on state television. Within minutes, hundreds of thousands were celebrating and shouting at Tahrir [...]

The WikiLeaks site was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, said a Norwegian parliamentarian Snorre Valen, author of the proposal, a day after the end of the deadline for applications. The Norwegian Nobel Committee accepted until February 1, the nominations for the prize regarded by many as a major honor in the world, although the five members [...]

Having returned from the just concluded “World Economic Forum” at Davos, Anshul Sushil, marketing manager, HCL Technologies, India shares his experience during 5 days of his stay there and unveils the mystery revolving about the global event that it is an initiative governed by world leaders who are no less than a common man at heart. 1. With great [...]

We are witnessing political protests and uprising in different parts of Middle East. The year 2011 began with an uprising in Tunisia which started with an act of protest of one single man, news of which spread like a wild fire and soon people of Tunisia took to the streets and overthrew the oppressive regime almost overnight. Now the same protests [...]

Recent Tunisian uprising seems to have woken up a part of the world which has been quiet and suffering for a long time under dictatorial regimes. Egypt is witnessing wide-spread protests against the corrupt ruling authoritarian government led by President Hosni Mubarak who has been at helm for nearly 30 years. The protests have turned violent and there [...]