As Sri Lanka grapples with a severe currency crisis, India’s major banks have become cautious and selective about their exposures to the island nation. Several institutions have reduced discount letters of credit (LC) – the basic instrument for trade finance – issued by many Lanka lenders while others provide credit to exporters based on the […]
An exciting mission for Colorado adventurers might be to search for a large treasure that remains buried near the Horsetooth Reservoir in Fort Collins. According to the Rocky Mountain Prospectors and Treasure Hunters, the untraceable chunk of money known as Robber’s Roost Treasure is said to be worth over $ 1 million in today’s currency. […]
Most people who live in or around Kalamazoo, or even the rest of Michigan, are familiar with the classic 1940s song that musically references the city several times and actually helped popularize the town of Kalamazoo. But what some may not be aware of is an unsolved mystery still unresolved about the man who disappeared […]
Well the internet is scratching its head, another mystery is unfolding in northern Idaho on Lake Pend Oreille. We’ve always been fascinated by the saying that “we know more about space than our oceans” – and according to several scientific journals, that’s actually true. In total, 95% of the ocean is completely unexplored. Although Idaho […]
Well the internet is scratching its head, another mystery is unfolding in northern Idaho on Lake Pend Oreille. We’ve always been fascinated by the saying that “we know more about space than our oceans” – and according to several scientific journals, that’s actually true. In total, 95% of the ocean is completely unexplored. Although Idaho […]
He could have been a mass murderer, but his identity (and his alleged crime) is still not proven today. It is the story of a man from Illinois who in the mid-1940s may have tried to gas his entire town. This incident is a well known story in Mattoon, Illinois. He has his own Wikipedia […]
Under the intellectual and moral leadership of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., House Republicans have done their best to set a standard of deadly disinformation, poisoned fanaticism, and mental emptiness. But Republicans in the Senate – possessing greater intellectual power and fewer excuses for cowardice – recently took center stage in the GOP festival of […]
China has embarked on a public relations campaign with the intention of subverting the global discourse on what constitutes democracy in a bid to attack the US political system, as US President Joe Biden prepares to open his US Democracy Summit later this week. China and Russia were not invited to the event, which will […]
While the Tatmadaw, as the military is called, said it had received due process, its prosecution was condemned by rights groups for lack of fairness and transparency. Loading Dr Tun-Aung Shwe, Australian representative of Myanmar’s shadow administration, the government of national unity, described the proceedings against Suu Kyi as “show trials” aimed at sidelining her […]
Treasure Valley Casino in Davis, Oklahoma. (Representative image) | Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Text size: A- A + SSecret societies and criminal organizations have been part of the Chinese social and political fabric since the beginning of the 20th century. But we’re not talking about the next hit Shanghai crime syndicate film, it’s a real […]