Yearender 2011 :A year of revolutions,upheavals and slow downs

Middle East and North African region witnessed unprecedented unheaveals that led to to the toppling of decades old dictatorial regimes of Ben Ali , Hosni Mubarak and Muammer Gaddafi and  Tunisia, Libya and Egypt are still struggling to get the democratic process established.The social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter played a crucial role in mobilizing the protests.

The Eurozone countries are still struggling to survive  from the prevailing debt crisis.The US economy

North Korea after Kim Jong II

After the succession process of Kim Jong un in North Korea following the death of his father Kim Jong-Il gets completed , the world leaders  will be watching  the direction in which the young leader takes his country. The matters relating to domestic reforms ,

Russia becomes WTO member

Published on 16 December 2011 and republished again


Russia finally joins the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday at a ceremony in Switzerland after 18 years of intense negotiations for its membership.

Russians Begin Voting in Parliamentary Elections

Russians are voting to elect the State Duma -- lower house of the Parliament on Sunday that is expected to hand victory to Vladimir Putin's party United Russia.