Hindustan Times
One of the reasons Labour lost the 2010 general election to the Conservatives, some pundits hold, is that it was out of step with the general mood on immigration. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Dipankar De Sarkar on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Filed under England · Tagged Aberdeen City Council, dipankar de sarkar, Ed Miliband, Gordon Brown, hindustan times, immigration, Jobcentre Plus, Labour party, migrants, news
In November 2010, the Dalai Lama hailed the release of Burmese pro-democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi as a positive and “good” move by the military junta. “Hopefully she can carry on her work without restrictions,” he said. Then he aired an interesting afterthought: “After all Burma’s a Buddhist country and I’m sure its military leaders are also Buddhist. In their political work they should carry the Buddhist principle of compassion.” Read more
(4 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Dipankar De Sarkar on Monday, June 18, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Filed under world · Tagged Buddhist, Burma, China, Chinese Communist Party, Dalai Lama, democracy, Dipanka De Sarkar, IMF, military junta, Myanmar, Suu Kyi, Terminal 3
British government ministers and officials have been lecturing India about its move to force telecoms giant Vodafone to pay back-dated tax on its 2007 acquisition of Hutchinson’s Indian mobile phone assets. Now it turns out Vodafone avoided paying a single penny in taxes in the UK last year in an alleged deal with the UK tax department. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Dipankar De Sarkar on Monday, June 11, 2012 at 9:46 pm
Filed under UK · Tagged British corporation tax bill, dipankar de sarkar, hindustan times, Hutchinson, Luxembourg, Mannesmann, news, Osborne, Pranab Mukherjee, tax, Terminal 3, Vodafone
