‘Entering rice export market, SL’s aim’

Right from the beginning, our target was to be self-sufficient on our staple food - rice. Hence, all efforts have been focused on rice production. In earlier times, producers were not concerned about the quality or the variety etc, but were mainly production oriented

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Anxiety grips Egypt after divisive results

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, whose presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy polled the highest number of votes in the fractured electoral contest, has been quickly off the blocks in seeking support from all other 'pro-revolution' parties and individuals so that Ahmed Shafiq, seen by many as a former loyalist of the ousted President Hosni Mubarak, can be defeated in the two-horse run-off slated next month.

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GLOVAL SCAN - Lynn Ockersz

Propaganda blitz leaving trail of unanswered questions

As US President Barack Obama staunchly defends what he considers are his foreign policy triumphs in the run-up to the October Presidential poll against Republican front-runner Mit Romney, the US public as well as the impartial external observer would do well to raise some pertinent questions which would help to separate the ‘wheat from the chaff’ in the incumbent President’s typically ‘smooth as silk’ flow of words.

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Nehru - an embodiment of ‘Service above Self’

Death anniversary on May 27:

Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian nationalist leader and statesman who became the first Prime Minister of Independent India in 1947. He was born in Allahabad on November 14, 1889 and died on May 27, 1964 of a cerebral haemorrhage followed immediately by a heart attack. He was succeeded by Gulzari Lal Nanda, the then Home Minister of the Government of India, as Prime Minister.

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