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News for Wednesday, 27 Oct 2010

A rubbish way to handle garbage

Who can possibly resist an opportunity to exchange rags for riches? Or garbage for gold? Apparently, the Punjab government can, since it has proved to be immune to such temptations....

An inalienable right?

If the trend of using the violation of human rights as a basis of litigation continues, it wont be long before blackmailers, kidnappers and thugs will be asking for their...

Downing Hemlock

Arundhati Roy, that gadfly of the Indian establishment, is in trouble again. Not bad enough was the fact that she was sympathetic to (and some say assisting) the Naxalite rebels...

Double whammy

Reports by Transparency International (TI) and Amnesty International (AI) should make the government and concerned agencies do some serious thinking. The Transparency International, widely recognised as a responsible whistle-blower, notes...

New responsibilities

This is in response to the news reports that the US has agreed to increase military aid to Pakistan by an amount of US$ 2 bln per year. This increase...

Taliban seeking shelter

In a surprising development, the local Taliban council has said that militants will move into Afghanistan if the army launches an operation in North Waziristan.

A pamphlet purportedly...

Traffic woes

The public transport system in the provincial metropolis is in shambles. There are no buses for school children, the line and lane is not followed, no taxi system is present,...

Education syllabus

We are a nation of divided segments. We are producing children in schools with as various syllabi as are there football teams in the world. This is going to cause,...

Dengue fever

Now that the reports have confirmed quite some deaths and hundreds of patients admitted in the hospitals, the government seems to be awakening to the situation that the dengue fever...

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