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In "Opinion"
December 30, 2018
Rationalize spending
THE Japanese government has come under widespread international criticism for its decision to resume commercial whaling. Since 1986, the International Whaling Commission has effectively banned the hunting of whales, although Japan and other whaling nations, including Norway and Iceland were allowed to hunt ‘for scientific purposes’ some species of these undersea leviathans, that were not considered to be endangered.
Japan has now also withdrawn from the IWC and, even though it is geographically very far from the North Atlantic, joined the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission which, besides Norway and Iceland, is also made up of Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
While the IWC’s with its now-88 members, including landlocked countries such as Laos, the Czech Republic, Austria and...
December 28, 2018
Whale wailing
December 27, 2018
Did the Saudis win or lose in Yemen?
FOLLOWING the British model, after Independence, India also adopted a parliamentary form of democracy. Accordingly, like the United Kingdom where laws and regulations are enacted in the name of the Queen, in India, all decisions, orders, laws and regulations are promulgated in the name of the President, though, it is Parliament that legislates and passes all laws and regulations.This customary arrangement where the President is merely a ceremonial head of State for all practical purposes is quite well understood. What is not understood and what has become more manifest in recent times are the norms and practice that run contrary to secularism, a principle that is entrenched in the heart of the Indian Constitution. Although, when it first came into effect, the Indian Constitution fell short...
December 27, 2018
Secularism in India: In theory and practice!
December 27, 2018
Economic winners and losers
December 27, 2018
Expats should spend their money in the Kingdom
December 27, 2018
Wa’ad El-Shamal: The capital
of global phosphate
December 26, 2018
The embarrassing sign at our gas stations
December 26, 2018
The biggest losers in the fall of Dhaka
December 26, 2018
Will Saudi Arabia achieve self-sufficiency in weapons production?
