Strongest words spoken by any PM at the UN General Assembly
“Pak is a terror
state Pak should shut down terrorist camps if the talks have to be fructified.
Pak has to shun the path of terrorism”.
What is BJP machine advocating stop talking. Recommending
Manmohan should go to UN and start thrashing SHARIF with a hockey stick. (Bhartiya
Jhagraloo Party)
What happened in Kargil and thereafter
is forgotten.
For Gates, corruption isn’t A BIG BILL TO PAY
Gates made news this week with his
statement that there would be no poor countries by 2035 (he also made a viral
video promoting his website), but what went mostly unremarked was a series of
statements about aid and corruption. Gates issued a two-part response to
critics of foreign aid provided by governments. “Many people think that
development aid is a large part of rich countries ‘budgets, which would mean a
lot can be saved by cutting back. When pollsters ask Americans what share of
the budget goes to aid, the average response is 25 percent. When asked how much
the government should spend, people tend to say ’10 percent.’ I suspect you
would get similar result in the United Kingdom, Germany, and elsewhere. Here
are the actual numbers. For Norway, the most generous nation in the world, it’s
less than 3 percent. For the United States it’s less than 1 percent, “he wrote.
As for corruption, Gates begins at
home. “There is a double standard at work here. I’ve heard people calling on
the government to shut down some aid program if one dollar of corruption is
found, On the other hand, four of the past seven governors of Illinois have
gone to prison for corruption, and to my knowledge no one has demanded that
Illinois schools be shutdown or its highways closed,” he writes.
BIG DATA
Current number of foundation employees 1,194
Asset Trust Endowment $40.2b
Total grant payments since inception $28.3b
Total 2011 & 2012 grant payments $ 3.4b
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