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By K G Suresh Starbucks,the largest coffeehouse company in the world,recently announced a tie up with Tata Global Beverages Ltd to “harness the vast potential of the hot beverage market” in India. The partners have decided to open 50 cafes in several Indian cities in 2012 beginning with Delhi and Mumbai. . . . →Read More:Indians also want coffee Pope Benedict XVI on Monday called on Pakistan to scrap a controversial law against blasphemy,saying it served as “a pretext for acts of injustice and violence against religious minorities.” “I once more encourage the leaders of that country to take the necessary steps to abrogate that law,”the leader of the world’s one billion . . . →Read More:Pope urges Pakistan to scrap blasphemy law  One comment  Oppression  anti-Christian attacks in Egypt and Iraq,Arabian Peninsula,Area 14/8,Area148,Asia bibi,Christian mother-of-five,Coptic Christian church in Alexandria,Holy See's insistence,killing of Salman Taseer,New Year's Day,Pakistan,Pope Benedict XVI,Pope urges Pakistan to scrap blasphemy law,Roman Catholic Church,Saudi Arabia,traditional New Year's address to ambassadors to the Vatican,tragic murder of the governor of Punjab,Vatican and China,world's one billion Catholics | |||
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Impact of Eastern Muslim welfare states on Europe
By Brig Samson S Sharaf
In the study and commentary of Arthashastra written by Vinshnugupta Kautilya Chanakya,I learned that the sub continent had a formative influence on the Arab World of antiquity in arts,governance and sciences. Later,through trade and warfare,this knowledge fused with the Persian and Chinese schools of thought transferred . . . →Read More:Impact of Eastern Muslim welfare states on Europe