Govt snips babus’ flights of fancySaturday, November 22, 2008 @ 3:53PMNew Delhi, Nov. 22: Fasten your seat belts, babus. Air travel expenses during holidays are the government’s latest target as it girds up to tackle the global financial crisis.
Too Gallas for his own goodSaturday, November 22, 2008 @ 3:45PMalways good to hear freedom of speech - the right to rant, as columnists know it - being defended. It must be better still to be endorsed as honest and rational by a distinguished fellow professional.
Ex-minister uses inside track to lobby for firmSaturday, November 22, 2008 @ 3:27PMIn July this year, Stephen Ladyman, the former Labour minister, wrote to the official in charge of London’s transport. As an MP he might have been expected to be complaining about overcrowded trains for a constituent, but Ladyman had a different agenda. He was pitching for business.
Daschle to take health post; another familiar faceSaturday, November 22, 2008 @ 3:02PMWASHINGTON — Barack Obama is enlisting former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary, embracing a third Washington insider in the early stages of Cabinet-building by the president-elect who promised change.
Carmakers’ crisis deepens Detroit’s despairSaturday, November 22, 2008 @ 2:50PMDETROIT (AP) — While U.S. automakers wait for federal action on loans they say are key to their survival, former restaurant worker Richard Thomas is waiting on his own bailout — odd jobs that barely pay the bills.
You are currently viewing this from 69.147.109.97 -Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 2:25PMWELCOME GUEST! US President George W. Bush, bidding farewell to the international stage, on Saturday offered a sweeping defense of free trade, demanding the world resist protectionism during the financial turmoil.
Carmakers’ crisis deepens Detroit’s despairSaturday, November 22, 2008 @ 2:02PMSat, Nov 22, 2008 (11:54 a.m.) While U.S. automakers wait for federal action on loans they say are key to their survival, former restaurant worker Richard Thomas is waiting on his own bailout _ odd jobs that barely pay the bills.
PEOPLE PROFILE: Kira Kremer receives Freedom Alliance ScholarshipSaturday, November 22, 2008 @ 12:34AMKira Kremer, 21, a 2005 graduate of Lockport High School, is getting help with tuition to the SUNY Upstate Medical University with a scholarship from the Freedom Alliance Scholarship.
Marcia DeSanctis: Piracy and UsSaturday, November 22, 2008 @ 12:21AMEvery day seems to bring another headline-grabbing act of piracy in the lawless waters off the Horn of Africa. When I recently wrote my...