Analysis: False records issue is key to Standard Chartered case
A New York state case against Standard Chartered Plc is more about whether the British bank carried out an old-fashioned cover-up using allegedly false records and less about the role the bank played in the alleged More...
Syria rebels say fighting army in Salaheddine
Syrian rebels said they had regained control over parts of a strategic district of Aleppo on Thursday after countering a sustained assault by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces seeking to retake Syria’s More...
Unity of India is of untold antiquity
Column by Virendra Parekh - India’s cultural unity goes back to Vedic times. Even when politically divided, the goal was always to unite it under a single chatra. There is no basis to the claim that India was More...
Syrian prime minister defects, fighting goes on
Syrian forces pressed on with their offensive against rebels in the largest city Aleppo after the prime minister fled the country, denouncing the “terrorist regime” of Bashar al-Assad. Riyad Hijab is More...
Standard Chartered may lose NY license over Iran ties
In a rare move, New York’s top bank regulator threatened to strip the state banking license of Standard Chartered Plc, saying it was a “rogue institution” that hid $250 billion in transactions More...
Wahhabi Eruption in Troubled Germany
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz with Veli Sirin & Ali Uyanik Germany and Islam have made news lately, none of it good. Germany has a large Muslim minority of around four million, or five percent of the More...
Islamist celebrate as Morsy elected Egypt president
Islamist Mohamed Morsy was declared Egypt’s first freely elected president on Sunday, sparking joy among his Muslim Brotherhood supporters on the streets who vowed to wrest more power from armed forces reluctant More...
Reinvigorated Islam
Columns by Amil Imani – Trauma, viruses, or bacteria cause the death of a biological entity. Viruses and bacteria are major killers of human beings and present great challenges to medicine. They can be deadly More...
Turkish, Syrian forces seek downed Turkish jet
Report by Jonathon Burch and Erika Solomon (Reuters) – Turkey and Syria said their navies were jointly searching on Saturday for Turkish airmen shot down by Syria over the Mediterranean, while nearby Turkish More...
Romila Thapar and the Study of Ancient India 2: History as propaganda
Column by Dilip K Chakrabarti (Edited with comments by N.S. Rajaram, Contributing Editor. This continues Professor Dilip Chakrabarti’s analysis of the motives and methodology of Romila Thapar and her colleagues.) Diluting More...
