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Obama Vs Zardari on Terror
Dec 1st
Pakistan is playing safe when it comes to terror and US. On the same issue, US president Mr. Barack Obama wrote a letter to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, saying – ” The US would no longer tolerate Islamabad’s reluctance to act against Lashkar-e-Taiba and other jihadi groups. ” According to a report in , Obama also warned Pakistan that its use of insurgent groups for policy goals “cannot continue” and called for closer collaboration against all extremist groups.
According to the Post report, US national security advisor Jim Jones recently travelled to Pakistan to deliver a message – ” if Pakistan cannot deliver, the United States may be impelled to use any means at its disposal to rout insurgents based along Pakistan’s western and southern borders with Afghanistan”.
President Barack Obama declared Tuesday, announcing he was ready to spell out war plans virtually sure to include tens of thousands more U.S. troops. It is still in America’s vital national interest to “dismantle and destroy” al-Qaida terrorists and extremist allies. “I intend to finish the job.” he said. He later said, “I can tell you, as I’ve said before, that it is in our strategic interest, in our national security interest to make sure that al-Qaida and its extremist allies cannot operate effectively.We are going to dismantle and degrade their capabilities and ultimately dismantle and destroy their networks. And Afghanistan’s stability is important to that process.”
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JCB Diesel Max – Fastest Diesel Car
Nov 30th
JCB Diesel Max launched first time in India on Nov, 2009. The Special thing about this car is it’s speed. JCB Diesel Max is the world’s fastest diesel car. It achieved an average speed of 563 kmph. It’s a fire. It has a fuel capacity of nine litres. It measures 9091 mm in length, 1145 mm wide and a height of 979 mm (to top of canopy at run speed) and 1337 mm (to top of fin). The engine power has been increased five times, ie from 125HP to 750HP.
JCB : Fastest Diesel Car
The fully-laden weight of the vehicle, including fuel, oil, ice, water coolant and the driver, is slightly less than 2,700 kg. Dr. Tim Leverton holds the position of Group Engineering Director for JCB.He was Project Leader for the JCB DieselMax land speed record project which raised the world land speed record for diesel-powered cars to 350mph in August 2006.
Commonwealth call for climate deal
Nov 29th
The countries, representing more than a quarter of the world’s population, met in Port-of-Spain (the capital of Trinidad and Tobago) on Saturday – ahead of a UN climate summit in Denmark. Leaders at the biennial Commonwealth summit have endorsed an agreement on climate change and a fund to help poor. The summit was joined by Nicolas Sarkozy( France’s president), Lars Lokke Rasmussen( Danish prime minister) and Ban Ki-moon(the UN secretary-general) .
The UN is aiming for a political agreement at the climate talks that would cover tougher emissions targets, climate financing for poor nations and the transfer of clean-energy technology.
The meeting of the Commonwealth, made up mostly of former British colonies, attracted an unusual level of attention this year because of climate change. The gathering, held every two years, brought together some of the key countries in the global debate, including India, Canada and Australia, amid debate over cutting carbon emissions and the economic effects of those cuts.
Courtesy: CBN news
Dubai Debt Crisis
Nov 28th
Share prices in the City suffered their biggest fall since March today amid fears that a debt crisis in the millionaires’ playground of Dubai heralded a new phase in the global financial meltdown and a double-dip recession in 2010.
With Alistair Darling admitting that he had been forced to rip up his already gloomy forecasts for the UK economy this year, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares dropped more than 170 points – wiping £44bn off their value.
The market turmoil – which saw jittery investors retreat to the traditional safe havens of bonds, the Swiss franc and the US dollar – followed news that the government-owned conglomerate Dubai World had asked its creditors for a six-month debt moratorium.
As concerns grew that a fledgling economic rally stimulated by rock-bottom global interest rates might have run its course, the price of crude oil fell by almost $2 a barrel and speculators shunned riskier markets in emerging countries. Banks were the hardest hit stock market sector, and shares in HSBC and Standard Chartered – which are exposed to a property crash in Dubai – fell heavily.