EvilBuddha comments

No mission of peace is hopeless and it will bring a small but significant upturn. Nothing ventured nothing gained.

Wonder when he will be going to Moscow then to meet Putin.

Or is it that Komeito's overtures are for China only? Why is it that the Soka Gakkai considers it a badge of honour that they played a role in normalization of ties between China and Japan? Why do they play up the friendship between Ikeda and Zhou Enlai (Mr. Chew and Lie).

Now that China has become a problem for many Asian countries when will Soka Gakkai accept that, in a small way, they too are responsible.

Maybe India should work on providing toilets and sanitation for its citizens instead of landing spacecraft on the mooon.

Or maybe India should send all its slumdogs to Canada so it will end up becoming Canada's problem.

This is nothing compared to Kennedy pushing NASA to land a man on the moon, any and every push by all governments which results in advancement in space exploration is very much needed

Yeah if the mission succeeds all credit will be taken by Modi and his bhakts.

If it fails though (like it did before the 2019 elections) he will be nowhere to be found.

There is no race here.

Modi pushed ISRO to launch this mission because he wants to claim some success before next years elections.

Many decades back ISRO used to collaborate with Glavkosmos. That ended when the US placed sanctions on both the agencies for 2 years forcing ISRO to become independent in developing the cryogenic engines for its launch vehicles when Russia backed out.

India should allow Russia to 'win' this race though considering how much India owes Russia and the respect Indians have for Russians.

Laughable that a country with corrupt civilian politicians like the Sharif clan and the Bhutto-Zardari clan can jail Imran Khan on flimsy grounds.

In politics, just like in cricket, the best man does not necessarily come out on top.

For understanding what kind of mutants can result from nuclear testing one can watch 'The Hills have Eyes' and 'Godzilla'.

The Soviets chose Semipalatinsk for their nuclear tests which is now Semey in Kazakhstan. So the Russians have washed their hands off the problem.

Margolis's character -- the patriarch of the drug-smuggling Salamanca family, who suffers a stroke after being poisoned by a rival

No, he was poisoned by Nacho/Ignacio Varga who was part of the Salamanca crew itself.

Rice is preferred as a staple more in South and East India than in the North and Western parts.

Had the Bengalis, Tamils, Malayalis, Kannadigas, Telugus, Assamese turned to chapatis and rotis instead of sticking to rice this ban would not have been needed.

Rotis/chapatis are a healthier option as compared to rice because they are made of wheat and contain proteins, minerals and fibre. They are harder to digest than rice but contains less calories.

Well played England and nice farewell for Broad.

Broad is fourth on the all-time list of wicket-takers in tests, behind Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne and his great friend, England pacer Jimmy Anderson

Wrong. Broad is 5th, after Anil Kumble who has 619 wickets in tests.

Still remember the final day of Ashes 2005 when Kevin Pietersen saved the day for England.

Who will save the day for England this time?

Stuart Broad has come a long way after being hit for six 6's in an over by Yuvraj Singh in the inaugural T20 World Cup.

It would have ended anyone else's career but kudos to the England selectors for standing by him.

third umpire Niton Menon

Nitin Menon

Japan’s role in Sri Lanka is important.

The Lankans have already seen how much help China will provide in their hour of need, and they don't really trust India whatever India does for them.

Focus on the consumers, not low level peddlers.

Considering that the US launched Operation Paperclip to bring Nazi scientists to America after the end of the war, can one say that the US space program success was because it stole German technology?

We are not alone -- and American authorities are covering up the evidence, a former U.S. intelligence officer told a congressional committee on Wednesday.

He was probably consigned to a basement office just like Fox Mulder was.

This might be coming out now but the fact that the US government has been covering up a forthcoming alien invasion in the hope of cutting a deal with a superior life form has been clear to me since 3 decades ago, when I was a kid and started watching The X-Files.

Well played England but could not defeat English rain.

It's not England vs Australia.

It's England vs English rain and we know who will when it comes to that.

China in theory can get many immigrants since there are many ethnic Chinese in Indonesia and Malaysia who are unhappy with the racial policies of their own governments and look towards China as their motherland and protector, even if they have never been there.

But these ethnic Chinese prefer to migrate to the West instead of China. And they still support China wherever they live. It doesn't work out for China and doesn't work out for their host nations.

Mark Wood's extra pace and timely insertions into the attack made the difference as he dismissed Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith and Travis Head cheaply to pass 100 test wickets

Short ball enforcer Mark Wood could have passed 100 test wickets much sooner had Anderson and Broad stepped aside and not continued playing into old age.

Labuschagne stands between England and victory, and he had suffered a concussion the last time Australia were in England after getting hit by a short ball from Jofra Archer. So he should expect some sweet chin music.

If England do win this one it will set up a cracker of the final test.

A filet-o-fish once burned my tongue. I should move to the US and claim damages.

He also crossed rap's boundaries, including with his megahit "Empire State of Mind,"

Let's hear it for New York

Lil Kim, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Run DMC and The Sugarhill Gang

*List incomplete without Nas. Before 'the Empire State of Mind' there was the 'New York State of Mind'.

Not mentioned here but one of the best Japanese movies (though from a Japanese perspective and also accused of stoking up nationalist sentiments) is 'The Eternal Zero'.

But you will see the hard core trying to deflect blame from the ready availability of guns and ammunition

Guns are also available in countries with strict gun laws which don't have the right to bear arms enshrined in their constitution.

Anti-Asian attacks accelerated when Republican politicians started calling SARS-Cov2 the "China Flu", "Kung-Flu" and other racially charged names while blaming China for deliberately manufacturing the pandemic.

Republicans were not completely wrong, but since that affects you personally you will continue to go ahead with the dubious claim that the virus originated elsewhere and was spreading in the US already before the first cases were discovered in China.

Anti-Asian attacks happened under Obama also but don't see anyone blaming Obama for the same.

Lorne Malvo also caused mayhem in Fargo so maybe this guy got inspired from him.

Police said the shooter, armed with a pump action shot gun

Shotgun owners should get ready to hand over their guns to the government.

H1B needs a complete overhaul.

It was meant for skilled foreigners to go and work in the US, not for Indian body shops like Infosys and TCS to undercut American workers by hiring wage slaves from India willing to work at 5000 USD a month.

The fact that the minimum wage requirement for H1B has remained the same for last 3 decades tells you which type of firms have taken advantage by gaming the system.

the falling share of international students coming to America

US still has the best universities for research in STEM fields and they don't want to end up like Canada where students take admission in run of the mill universities in order to work part time on their student visas.

The good thing is that the H1B for those working in universities in the US is not part of the H1B annual lottery.