MUCH in America and elsewhere is going to change as Barack Obama’s term as president of the US rolls along. Political observers across the world have been asking how his presidency would affect their countries. Our own commentators have wondered ...

22 Nov 2008

NEARLY 162 years ago on March 16, 1846 the valley of Kashmir, with its 90 per cent Muslim population, was sold to the Dogra Hindu Raja Golab Singh by the East India Company for Rs7.5 million as a reward for Golab Singh’s help to the British against ...

22 Nov 2008

The telegram sent jointly by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, the Calcutta Trades Association, and the European and Anglo-Indian Defence Association to the Viceroy, urging that special measures should be taken for dealing with the continued Anarchist ...

21 Nov 2008

T ed Stevens leaves public life as the most powerful figure ever to walk Alaska's political stage. His 50-year career, brought to an end by voters this past week, is tragic in the classic literary sense of the word. The same certitude and sense of ...

21 Nov 2008

I recently put together a concierge newsletter at WHERE Magazine (day job) that included some information you might find useful: * Teatro Zinzanni will have extended boutique hours from 10am-4pm daily, November 17th-December 24th for the holiday ...

21 Nov 2008

Turns out time’s run out for Silverjet, the world’s last remaining business class-only airline. Just shy of its second anniversary, the British-based carrier is calling it quits after admitting the $5 million cash injection it was expecting from ...

19 Nov 2008