Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

In the aftermath of the BDR mutiny in Bangladesh that may have killed up to 170 people, Dean Nelson, the South Asia editor of the British newspaper Telegraph, thinks he has figured it out. He thinks himself clever because he has come up with a clever headline for his musings. He thinks that the Bangladesh [...]

Now that the BDR “mutiny” in Dhaka is over, bodies of those massacred are being found inside the BDR headquarters at Pilkhana. Other bodies have been discovered dumped into sewege drains. Many army and BDR officers remain missing and it is feared the death toll may rise to 170. The BBC reports:
Bangladeshi troops searching the [...]

The Associated Press is reporting the following breaking news:
Local media say army tanks are rolling toward the Bangladeshi capital hours after the prime minister warned mutinous border guards to end their two-day rebellion.
The revolt by border guards angry over pay spread from the capital Thursday despite an agreement with the original band [...]

With nearly 50 people feared dead, the gunbattle at the BDR headquarters in Dhaka has come to an end after the government carried out negotiations with some of the rebellious soldiers. But now BBC is reporting the following:
The mutiny by paramilitary troops in Bangladesh has spread to towns outside the capital, Dhaka, reports say.
The [...]

There are reports that a gun battle is going in Dhaka at the headquarters of Bangladesh Rifles.
BBC  reports:
A gun battle has broken out inside the headquarters of the Bangladesh border guards in the capital, Dhaka, police and TV reports say.
There are no reports of any casualties yet in the gunfight at the Bangladesh [...]

Bobby Jindal gave the Republican response to the President. His speech sounded much better on paper.
That is the worst delivery of a speech at the national level I have seen (even if you include John McCain’s green screen speech). He sounded like a circus announcer.
Unbelievable. I am sure it will be a YouTube hit. I’ll [...]

President Obama delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress tonight. It was a speech for our times.
There is one sentence from this speech that may not get much press coverage. But it literally means the world to me, and I suspect to millions around the world. So, I want to highlight it [...]

I was thrilled to see “Slumdog Millionaire” win big at the Oscars last night. Although the movie received the Best Picture award, it is not without its critics - especially Indian ones.
One such critic is Salman Rushdie. He was unimpressed with the movie and complained that the movie “piles impossibility on impossibility.” For example, Rushdie [...]

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs went after Rick Santelli of CNBC during today’s White House Press Briefing. He was responding to Santelli’s on-air rant yesterday from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. Santelli was mocking Obama’s mortgage plan as helping “losers. He was cheered on by the traders around him.
Below is the rant [...]

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced the Obama administration’s financial rescue plan yesterday. The Administration calls this the “Financial Stability Plan.” The “Plan” has Paul Krugman confused. Krugman refers to it as “The Rorschach Plan.” Krugman says “It’s really not clear what the plan means; there’s an interpretation that makes it not too bad, but [...]