| Vol 9 Issue 11-12 September 03-16 |
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| Dig into the diversity! |
Food in London isn’t just fish and chips or roasts at the pub; there’s doner kebab, halal butchers and more...
by ZIADUL KABIR |
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| Let’s Plant Trees |
If trees must be felled, let this not be indiscriminate and let there be ample replacement
by Mohammad Shahidul Islam |
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| Echoes in Tamil Nadu |
AS usual, the build-up of emotions on the Sri Lankan Tamil issue was as fast as the climbdown in Tamil Nadu. At the end of three weeks of fast-paced developments, the ........
by T.S. Subramanian |
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| Reality checks on the way |
Obama has inspired hope and the world waits for him to translate that hope into reality
by Fazal M. Kamal |
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| Inheritance of loss |
The film highlights the groundswell of introspection among the “Partition generation”.
by CHITRA PADMANABHAN |
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| Dreaming of a better Bangladesh |
This NGO works in the field of health, disaster management, social awareness and more
by SHAFIQ RAHMAN |
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| And Pegasus Is Off... |
These stories are precursors to the Booker winner, with similar characters and incidents, and are better
by Khushwant Singh |
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The Cheapest Million
A one million pound banknote, believed to be one of only two in existence, sold at only 78,000 pounds at auction. The eight-inch-wide green note, which dates back to 1948, is no longer legal tender.
It was issued by the Treasury in connection with the Marshall Aid Plan to pump US money into Europe after the Second World War. The million pound banknote, the eighth of nine produced over a period of six weeks, was sold by specialist auctioneers. The note, numbered 000008, was issued after the World War and the Marshall plan was a programme of funding given to Western Europe by the United States to help with recovery after the war.
Another £1,000,000 note numbered 000007 was sold for £8,000 in 1977, through a private sale. Only two survived as they were presented as mementoes to the respective American and British Treasury Secretaries. The others were destroyed. Number 000008 has been entered for sale by a banknote collector Bill Parkinson, from, Burnley, Lancashire, along with other world banknotes. Barnaby Faull, director of banknotes at Spink, said the note was on Bank of England watermarked paper. “It is one of the rarest examples of British currency around today and is the highest denomination note,” he said. |
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| Concept of National Security-2 |
Pakistan entered the 21st century a truncated version of its original creation, uncertain about its future, its place under the sun, its identity, etc indeed without a coherent vision for the ...
by IKRAM SEHGAL |
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| The spoof NY Times |
The recent NY Times spoof reflects the aspirations of the people, what they want from President-elect Obama
by Ripan Kumar Biswas |
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| Iraq: dramatic drop in deaths |
For 18 months Baghdad’s chief mortician could not walk across his laboratory for the bodies piled in front of him. He left work through a side door to ....
by Martin Chulov |
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| Avoid the debt trap, please |
Pakistan is the only country outside Europe to have gone to the IMF for a bailout. While the western financial meltdown hit the US and Europe hard, no ....
by Yousuf Nazar |
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