Washington, Nov. 18 : Pakistan''s potential for youth radicalisation is high, given a poor education system stratified along socio-economic lines and disparate economic opportunities across society, a study according to a study by a Pakistani scholar published by the Brookings Institution in the Daily Times.
Pakistani scholar and journalist Moeed Yusuf in his study titled ''The Prospects of Youth Radicalisation in Pakistan: Implications for US Policy'' has warned about the possibility of increase in the number of youths getting "lured" towards extremist causes.
New York, Nov 18 : The gun sales have shot in the United States as Americans fear that the Barack Obama Administration will bring stiffer rules for possessing fire arms.
During election week, the FBI did 374,510 background checks on prospective gun owners, compared with 251,804 in the same week last year. Last month, the G-men did checks on 285,894 people buying handguns, compared with 223,141 in October 2007.
“It is a significant jump,” the Daily News quoted special agent Jason Pack, as saying.
Washington, Nov. 18 : A Virginian Republic leader in the U. S. House of Representatives has said that his party is no longer "relevant" to voters and must stop simply espousing principles. Instead, it must craft real solutions to health care and the economy.
"Where we have really fallen down is, we have lacked the ability to be relevant to people''s lives. Let''s set aside the last eight years, and our falling down in living up to expectations of what we said we were going to do," Eric Cantor told The Washington Times.
New York, Nov. 18 : Aides to U. S. Presidential-elect Barack Obama are reported to becoming exasperated by the Clinton camp’s pokey response to queries on former President Bill Clinton’s finances.
According to Politico, so high is the exasperation, that it could cost Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton her potential job of being the next Secretary of State of the United States.
Washington, Nov 18 : A new research has proven that glacial erosion can not only change internal mountain structure, but also bring out a structural response to plate tectonics.
The subject of study for the researchers, which were from seven universities, was the highest coastal mountain range on earth, the St. Elias range in Alaska.