Daily Notes

BJP declares to abandon the minority welfare policies taken by current Indian Government in order to consolidate their Hindu vote bank. Times of India says :

Party president Rajnath Singh, in an interview to a news agency, said the BJP would withdraw all minority-appeasement policies of the UPA government...He said his party believed in providing equal opportunity to all sections of society, especially to the economically backward among all communities..."If NDA comes to power, we will cancel all schemes announced by UPA government on the basis of religion," Singh said.

This is revealing the fundamentalist nature of the party.

Srilanka watch reports another minority leader has been assassinated in Srilanka today by LTTE.

Dr. Julia Ljubimova found that air pollution may cause serious brain damage. Last night I was reading a comprehension on the diseased that is created by the enormous stress that the astronauts undergo during their space travels.

The daily times reports that more than 50 rivers of Philipines are endangered due to the pollution.

...Fifty rivers in the Philippines have been destroyed because people are using them to dump their rubbish, leaving some ecologically dead, an official said Wednesday.

Some days ago when I was reading some parts of the book "Power and Terror" I found Turkey to be a great ally of USA and how USA tolerates the crimes or state terrors of Turkey. Have a look:
....It has become a matter of dogma for the foreign policy establishment and much of the American media that Turkey is a "secular democracy". On the basis of strategic considerations and mythical views about the alleged moderation of Turkey, the Western world has stood by and tolerated acts of terror and violence against peaceful Christian communities that would have been denounced and opposed had they occurred elsewhere...