Population of African Cities to Triple: UN
The population of African cities is set to triple over the next 40 years, warns UN-Habitat’s new report: The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, Inequalities and Urban Land Markets.…
TSA Still Asks You to Show Your Bodies
By Rakesh Raman Notwithstanding the travelers’ outcries against getting their full bodies exposed under the scanning machines manned by humans, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the U.S is still pushing…
Football Field is New Battlefield for Afghanistan
The Dutch company GreenFields, a leading synthetic turf company, has completed the installation of a new football field at the future Olympic Centre in Kabul. As part of the FIFA…
West Hollywood Voters Want to Tax Billboards
It is said that tens of millions of dollars in advertising revenues are received each year by billboard companies from billboards, large screen video displays, tall walls, supergraphics and other…
Human Rights Outfit Welcomes Suu Kyi Release
Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist organization Amnesty International has welcomed the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a prisoner of conscience, from house arrest in Myanmar (formerly called Burma). Suu…
Obama Ignored Outcries of Sikh Widows: Statement
By Rakesh Raman President and Michelle Obama visited India on an economic mission and despite outcries from human rights organizations the President did not address India’s terrible human rights record…