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Published: December 8, 2009 President Obama has articulated a reasonably comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan, but there is no chance of defeating the Taliban and Al Qaeda unless Pakistan’s leaders stop temporizing (and in some cases collaborating) and get fully into the fight. After the Sept. 11 attacks, former President George W. Bush tried to buy off Pakistan’s military leaders who pocketed billions of dollars in American aid and continued to shelter the Taliban. Mr. Obama must demand more while finding ways to bolster the country’s weak civilian leadership and soothe anti-American furies. In a world of difficult strategic and diplomatic challenges, this may well be Mr. Obama’s toughest. In his speech last week, Mr. Obama laid down a marker for Islamabad, declaring “we cannot tolerate a safe haven for terrorists whose location is known and whose intentions are clear.” In private, administration officials have been even more explicit, warning Pakistani leaders that if they don’t ac

Incest Story In Haryana Just a few days back India gloriously celebrated its 64th Independence Day but the oxymoron of Indian freedom runs in Indian villages. Nowadays one of the most noted sarcasms is quite in style in national news channels. The noise is quite audible, and annoyance level is also comfortably high. The subject is the most tempting one to mankind – sex. Haryana, a state in India known for flourishing industrialism and affluent farmers, seems living in the medieval period. The self-proclaimed Haryana’s Khaps are the sham ‘kings’ of the villages. Their “moral judgments” can even make shy to the epitomes of immorality. They do all sort of things – to solve personal problems of family, to give judgment of any conflict, and above all their profound knowledge in ancient gotras, caste system etc. is mind-boggling. A recent example is about a law graduate and resident of Karora village Seema whose brother had been killed for marrying a woman from the same gotra. This

By STAFF Writer November 05, 2012 If you have decided by now to own and develop a website or blog then you need to know certain important details related to the best way how to manage the site and how to make it perform well on Google and other search engines. One, among many, is link building knowledge. Today we will discuss about the benefits of online marketing and how backlinks help in bringing more reputation and traffic to your site. First of all let me tell you one truth that link building is a strategic process. You need to plan out very carefully and very smartly. You need to research it well so that link building works out qualitatively for your site. You can get the work done by SEO business houses if you have good investment capacity to hire their services. If not, try out yourself and know the details of link building strategy by participating in different SEO or Webmaster forums and discuss with other members about it. It will help you like a good guide.   To

By STAFF Writer August 05, 2011 INDIA NEWS - Ancient Vedic festival Rakhi, also known as Rakhsha Bandhan, gets greater market both online and offline. The online B2C companies in India such as VirtualRakhi.com, Rakhi-Gifts.com, SendRakhiGiftsToIndia.com, RakhiFestival.com, rakhi.indiangiftsportal.com, Rakhi.Rediff.com, festivals.iloveindia.com/rakhi, Raksha-Bandhan.com have already launched their Rakhi Store months ago to attract its global customers who wants to send rakhi to India and other countries. Indian postal department is also playing a major role to celebrate this relationship celebration between brothers and sisters. The department has launched special envelops for sending Rakhis which is pre-gummed with peel-off strip to ensure proper and safe delivery of Rakhis. These tear and water-resistant envelops cost just Rs. 5 per piece. Riya Arts & Exhibition Solutions is organizing a Rakhi Mela, The Shopping Carnival, between 10th and 13th August at Bansal Bhawan in

Patna - It is perhaps the weirdest news or may be an exemplary example of corruption that passes all human imagination. In Bihar 298 women claim to give birth two or five children in a span of 60 days - the authenticity is perhaps doubtful but at least the government incentive scheme shows the record right. According to Bihar government's Janani Suraksha Yojana, a women gets around Rs.1,000 when she delivers a child. However, the scheme goes upturn and government has to pay whopping Rs.6.6 lakh as incentive to 298 women who claimed to be a mother of new born infants. The report is published by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) that exposes a different type of corruption in the state. This pandemonium was found in different districts in the year 2008-09. According to CAG report, the districts of Bhagalpur, East Champaran, Gopalganj, Kishanganj and Nalanda, had all those mothers who bore two to five babies at the span of 60 days. "The concerned officials paid incentive

Published: December 8, 2009 President Obama has articulated a reasonably comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan, but there is no chance of defeating the Taliban and Al Qaeda unless Pakistan’s leaders stop temporizing (and in some cases collaborating) and get fully into the fight. After the Sept. 11 attacks, former President George W. Bush tried to buy off Pakistan’s military leaders who pocketed billions of dollars in American aid and continued to shelter the Taliban. Mr. Obama must demand more while finding ways to bolster the country’s weak civilian leadership and soothe anti-American furies. In a world of difficult strategic and diplomatic challenges, this may well be Mr. Obama’s toughest. In his speech last week, Mr. Obama laid down a marker for Islamabad, declaring “we cannot tolerate a safe haven for terrorists whose location is known and whose intentions are clear.” In private, administration officials have been even more explicit, warning Pakistani leaders that if they don’t ac

By STAFF REPORTER October 17, 2011 In the first eight months of this year the trade between Thailand and Cambodia went up by 8%. Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh said yesterday the trade between went up to $1.93 billion. The export of Cambodia to Thailand was 125.6 million dollars, which is 17% lower compared to the same period last year, whereas the export of Thailand to Cambodia went up by 10% to 1.8 billion dollars. Director of Thai embassy's Foreign Trade Promotion Office, Jiranan Wongmongkol said trade between the two countries is seeing better recovery since August when the Pheu Thai Party came to power led by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. She added, "We project that through restoring good relations between the two nations, the bilateral trade will grow around 20 percent this year." Director of statistics department at Cambodia's Ministry of Commerce, Kong Putheara also said that Cambodian and Thai trade would re-grow well henceforth after it slow

Incest Story In Haryana Just a few days back India gloriously celebrated its 64th Independence Day but the oxymoron of Indian freedom runs in Indian villages. Nowadays one of the most noted sarcasms is quite in style in national news channels. The noise is quite audible, and annoyance level is also comfortably high. The subject is the most tempting one to mankind – sex. Haryana, a state in India known for flourishing industrialism and affluent farmers, seems living in the medieval period. The self-proclaimed Haryana’s Khaps are the sham ‘kings’ of the villages. Their “moral judgments” can even make shy to the epitomes of immorality. They do all sort of things – to solve personal problems of family, to give judgment of any conflict, and above all their profound knowledge in ancient gotras, caste system etc. is mind-boggling. A recent example is about a law graduate and resident of Karora village Seema whose brother had been killed for marrying a woman from the same gotra. This

From EDITOR's Desk August 13, 2011 17 years later, the story continues with a simple photograph of a sea green eyed girl when a casual photography by McCurry turned out to be one of those captivating portrait that sear the heart and ran on the cover of National Geographic magazine in June 1985. The shy girl was among hordes of refugees at the refugee camp in Pakistan. The anger of those haunted eyes was apparent, which swept away the photography fraternity and not least the whole world, but after 17 years nobody actually remember her, even her name. The year is 2011 when a team from National Geography Television & Films brought McCurry to Pakistan to search the immortal face. They searched around Nasir Bagh where the refugee camp still stands lonely among multitude. After showing her photographs to number of people, they came to know the girl in the picture returned to Afghanistan and now lived in the mountains near Tora Bora. So, they decided to hunt the girl.