Against going to War with IraqWednesday, October 2, 2002, Chicagoanti-Iraq war rally Good afternoon. Let me begin by saying that although this has been billed as an anti-war rally, I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances.The Civil War was one of the bloodiest acts in history, and […]
The Suez CrisisHouse of Commons, 31st October 1956 In view of my right honourable friend’s announcement that there will be a further debate tomorrow, I will, if I may, confine myself today to giving certain facts about the situation which are available to us and to meeting certain of the criticisms which may be in
Secession is the Height of MadnessDelivered at the State Convention of Georgia. 1861(Declared to be a forgery by Stephens in 1868) This step (of secession) once taken, can never be recalled; and all the baleful and withering consequences that must follow, will rest on the convention for all coming time. When we and our posterity
Nobel Prize Acceptance SpeechOslo, Norway, 4th November 1954,The Problem of Peace For the subject of my lecture, a redoubtable honour imposed by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, I have chosen the problem of peace as it is today. In so doing, I believe that I have acted in the spirit of the founder
Declaration of War against the USDec 11th 1941 Deputies, Men of the German Reichstag! A year of the events of historical significance is drawing to an end. A year of great decisions lies ahead. In theseserious times, I speak to you, deputies of the German Reichstag, as the representatives of the German nation. Beyond and
Gettysburg AddressDelivered at Gettysburg, PA—November 19, 1863 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and
The Saradha Group financial scandal was a major financial scam and political scandalcaused by the collapse of a Ponzi scheme run by Saradha Group, a consortium of over 200 private companies that was believed to be running collective investment schemes popularly but incorrectly referred to as chit fundsThe group collected around 200 to 300 billion
The Bhawal case was an extended Indian court case about a possible impostor who claimed to be the prince of Bhawal, who was presumed dead a decade earlier.Apparent first death and cremationRamendra Narayan Roy was one of the kumars (“princes”) of the Bhawal Estate, a large zamindar in Bengal in modern-day Bangladesh. He was one
Mobile and allied networks work on specific frequencies allotted to each operator in a band of frequencies known as a spectrum. . Any particular mobile network will operate only on the frequencies it’s been allotted. The Government is responsible for such allocation. One such allocation in the 2G network spectrum took place in India in
Top officials of BEML Limited, a Bangalore-based company, and the defence ministry have siphoned off at least Rs 750 crore in bribes and commissions over the past 14 years in the purchase of components for Tatra trucks, backbone of the army’s artillery and transportation wings.The Indian Army uses Tatra all-terrain vehicles to mount guided missile
Another scam in a history of Indian. Coal mining controversy is major fraud in 2012, which involved Rs 1,86,000 Cr loss to exchequer . This is serious allegation against Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh who is in a serious scrutiny of the CAG which leads to protest against the leading political party NCP
On 19 March 1987, a group posing as CBI officers executed the fake income tax raid on the Opera House branch of Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri (TBZ) in Mumbai. This case remained unsolved.BackgroundThe person posing himself as Mon Singh or Mohan Singh had placed a classified advertisement in the 17 March issue of The Times of
Uttar Pradesh food grain scam took place between years 2002 and 2010, in Uttar Pradesh state in India, wherein food grain worth Rs 350 billion (US$5.6 billion), meant to be distributed amongst the poor, through Public Distribution System (PDS) and other welfare schemes like Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), Jawahar Rozgar Yojana and Midday Meal Scheme
The 1971 Nagarwala scandal was a fraudulent act in which Rustom Sohrab Nagarwala convinced Ved Prakash Malhotra to withdraw 6 million rupees from the branch of the State Bank of India where he was the head cashier.CrimeOn 21 May 1971, Nagarwala called Malhotra at the State Bank of India, and imitated then Prime Minister Indira
Palm Olein Import Scam (Palm Olein Case, Palm Olein Corruption Case, 1991-92) are the alleged irregularities in the import of palm olein by K. Karunakaran lead United Democratic Front Government of the state of Kerala, India through the Power and Energy Limited Company. The Kerala State Government selected Power and Energy Limited arbitrarily without inviting