The taxes that property owners hate most are the ones that hurt them least and are most likely to be spent for their benefit, writes Gavin R. Putland.–April, 2009–"Land and taxes In any tax jurisdiction, the supply of land is fixed. From the viewpoint of the...
Techies only know techie woes. Not surprisingly the solutions too. Imagine that you can take the entire data of your desktop in a single “CD”. Wow..!, right?
Let us hope that this will be a reality soon, ofcourse as cost effective too.
"SAN FRANCISCO,...
Ambitious Indian project of developing a laptop to be sold at US$10 has been achieved. The cheap laptop has been developed as part of the new "National Mission in Education through ICT" and intended to target higher education applications. The Indian government is...
Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad ask the Arab League to take action as possible as quickly against the Israeli aggression and attacks on Gaza. Mohmood Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran asked from the Arab...
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Uber pundit and American proclamationist David S Broder of the Washington Post recently indexed the short comings of Senator John McCain’s run for the Oval Office. "he had limited interest in, and capacity for,...
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" " Earlier this year in January, Australia's CSIRO Energy Technology divulged about a new battery for hybrid cars called UltraBattery. It is technically a lead-acid battery and supercapacitator in one....
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Contrary to previous studies pregnant women gets their brains rewired to cope with motherhood — and their intelligence soars when the tots are born. Tests on rats showed mums become braver and faster at finding food. And the increased ability could curb...
How do we define a king maker? What are its role? This article dig deeply into the power structure of a religious group which boasts of its bloc voting powers, peddling this power for politicians who are...
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Some UN staffer involved in Congo mission are reportedly missing after their small plane disappeared on the way to Congo."A small plane believed to be carrying United Nations staffers did not land as scheduled on Monday in the Democratic Republic of Congo and officials were...
Argentina claimed back-to-back Olympic football titles with the winning goal engineered by superstar Lionel Messi in a 1-0 win over former champions Nigeria in the gold medal match at the Beijing Games on Saturday at the Bird’s Nest stadium. The newly build stadium with...
"One of the nation’s top authorities on global Internet traffic growth says his latest data show no reason to fear network capacity shortages, as traffic growth may even be slightly decelerating. Updating data collected from Internet exchanges around the...
From my personal blog: " According to the American Wind Energy Association, the United States is now the leader in wind energy production. Wind energy in 2008 has risen and current wind power capacity is rated...
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"MUSING ON INDEPENDENCE Today is our 43rd Independence Day. I am sitting at home, enjoying a rare day with my family. Just now, the children are playing with their cousins as my little nephew is celebrating his...
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" Officials of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency are expected to arrive later this month to ink new pacts for the next phases of an ongoing project aimed to enhance the safety oversight capacity of Vietnam's...
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"The country plans to build eight 700-MW nuclear plants to boost its nuclear power generation capacity to about 10,000 MW and is stepping up exploration to uncover new uranium mines, a top Atomic Energy Commission official has said. At present the country has a nuclear...