Source: Newstrack India
ISLAMABAD: Foreign countries including the US and India are responsible for killings in Balochistan, Pakistan military sources have claimed. he United States, the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, the XE Services (the new name of erstwhile Blackwater), India and Israel are some of those involved in terrorist activities in Balochistan and are fanning secessionist tendencies among angry Balochis, The Nation quoted the sources, as saying.
They also claimed that the interior ministry has failed to deport such elements from Balochistan, because of which the terrorist activities are still going on.
Source: Realclearpolitics.com
"Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."
Those four words have played an outsize role in the Michigan primary race between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. It's the headline that topped an op-ed Romney wrote for the New York Times on Nov. 18, 2008, in which he asserted that the troubled American auto companies should go through a "managed bankruptcy" rather than receive a government bailout.
Source: Business Standard
MUMBAI: Indian employees going to the US may find it increasingly difficult to get a visa.
Data obtained from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reveal the agency has dramatically increased denials of L-1 and H-1B petitions over the past four years, harming the competitiveness of US employers and encouraging companies to keep more jobs and resources outside the US, according to a report by National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), an Arlington, Virginia-based policy research group.
Source: Punjab Newsline
WASHINGTON: Akshay Desai, who studied medicine in India, has been made the chief of the Republican Party of Florida's finance committee.
"I am grateful that Desai has agreed to accept this crucial role. In this election year, we need the resources for victory, and Desai's long history of work for the state and our party make him a proven leader. A.K. and I are ready to roll up our sleeves and win," said RPOF's chairperson Lenny Curry.
Desai has been a member of the Florida State Board of Education since 2007. He received his medical degree in India, and earned his Master's in Public Health Administrative Medicine from the George Washington University. Desai is currently president and CEO of Universal Health Care Group, which he founded in 2002, and serves the health care community through several associations. He previously served as commissioner and chairman of the Health Committee on the White House Commission on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders 2005-08.
