Washington: US gay rights advocates claimed a major victory Tuesday as voters in Maine and Maryland became the first to approve legalizing same-sex marriage, media reported. “More people understand that this is a fundamental question of equality,” the boston.com website quoted Alison Smith, a resident of Portland, Maine as saying after the results of the [...]
Washington: After the presidential election debacle of 2000, when election results in the US state of Florida incorrectly called for then vice president Al Gore based on exit polling information from voting locations, American media outlets took pains to avoid any such errors again. On Tuesday morning, representatives from five major US TV networks and [...]
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No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
The inglorious case of Sreesanth
It may be said there was something amiss about the way S Sreesanth’s career spanned out. He was the hope of a whole state that had never seen any of its cricketers hold their place in the national team. Once there was time when vernacular papers and sports magazines debated deeply about why Kerala could [...]
Reforming the Cockatoo Bureau of Investigation
Of all the acronyms that Indian public associate with investigation, CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) is the most common. However, if its functioning is anything to go by, the motto ‘Industry, Impartiality, Integrity’ would be one of the longest-running jokes in the history of the country.
Don’t fall for Sharif’s charisma
Political pundits of our country are already in La-La Land airspace over the great opportunities the return of Nawaz Sharif presents. The intelligentsia still seems to be buying the explanation that Sharif was actually serious about peace with India — and unaware of Kargil intrusions. We forget that Sharif was, at that time, facing serious threats [...]
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