On 26 January each year, Australians come together to celebrate their national day, and with Australia Day in Sydney fast becoming a ‘must do’ travel experience, the emerald city turns on the charm, packed full of activities on and around Sydney Harbour, according to Destination NSW. “The Australia Day celebrations in Sydney are a must [...]

Arvind Kejriwal is being pooh-poohed by every aam aadmi (common man) of India for whom he formed his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). But I still like Kejriwal. By Rakesh Raman While explaining his law of gravity, the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton once said: “What goes up must come down.” But how much? Newton didn’t [...]

A petition urges President Obama to look into the matter, as the U.S. government’s stand of denying visa to Narendra Modi is based on biased media information and contorted facts. By Rakesh Raman An online petition is urging President Barack Obama to invite the Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of an Indian political party BJP [...]

Today, it’s observed that the democratic systems in different economies of the world are crumbling and there is an increasing degree of unrest among the people in democratic nations. India is one such nation. By Rakesh Raman To discuss the defects in the Indian democracy, RMN News Service of RMN Company has started a three-part [...]

With Nehru-Gandhi family at the center stage, Congress is ready to take the plunge in the cutthroat political battle, beginning with the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. By Rakesh Raman Amid cheers and complimentary slogan for them by thousands of party members, the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi delivered their passionate speeches [...]

By Rakesh Raman Not long ago, I was attending a national film industry conference in Mumbai where a leading Bollywood director Subhash Ghai was invited as a speaker. In his address, Ghai didn’t mince his words to describe Indian filmmakers as copycats. While stating that he got popular as a director after his debut film [...]

It won’t be a bad idea for Congress to make Anna Hazare the next PM, particularly when India is facing a complete leadership bankruptcy. By Rakesh Raman Big question: Can Anna Hazare be the next Prime Minister (PM) of India after the Lok Sabha elections of April / May 2014? It may sound an hypothetical [...]

After announcing his retirement from the post of Prime Minister (PM) after the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, India’s PM, Manmohan Singh seems to be on an inauguration spree. Close on the heels of inaugurating TCS Learning Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, he inaugurated Friday the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) Terminal 2 in Mumbai. He was supported [...]

In the world population of 7 billion, it’s estimated that 2.5 billion people live without a toilet. They defecate in the open – on streets, in the fields and forests. WaterAid announced today a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that puts the global sanitation crisis at the forefront of advocacy efforts aimed [...]

Today, people or common citizens don’t have any role to play in the affairs of a so-called democratic government. And there is a big divide between the rulers and the ruled. By Rakesh Raman In his Gettysburg speech of 1863, the-then U.S. President Abraham Lincoln introduced America’s representative democracy as the “government of the people, [...]

Axis Bank, claimed to be India’s third largest private sector bank, as a part of adding value to the banking service in China, today announced the opening of its Shanghai branch. Subsequent to the bank receiving permission to start banking operations from Chinese Regulator – China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) – in September 2013, it [...]

Japan’s Okinawa Prefectural Government announced today that it has uploaded videos introducing the “Ichariba-chode” hospitality, the manner of people who visit the nation’s best resort islands. The announcement is part of the “Be.Okinawa” global branding project. “Ichariba-chode” is an Okinawan saying and approach to life, meaning “once we meet, we become brothers and sisters.” The [...]