Palash Ghosh

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Palash has worked as a business journalist for 21 years in New York.

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Verizon Strike Update: The Realities of the Decline in Landline Business

Virtually all of the 45,000 employees on strike work for this struggling landline segment, prompting company officials to re-evaluate its cost structure,

Aug 16, 2011

Verizon Strike 2011: Massachusetts Democrat Congressmen Stand With Picketers

Some congressmen from Massachusetts recently joined the picket line

Aug 16, 2011

Michele Bachmann Wishes Elvis Presley ?Happy Birthday? on Death Anniversary

Thirty-four years after the death of the King of Rock and Roll, Bachman, stumping for her campaign in South Carolina, wished Elvis a ?happy birthday.?

Aug 16, 2011

A striking Verizon worker walks the picket line in front of a Verizon wireless store in New York

Verizon Strike Update: Company Calls in Hundreds of Non-Union Replacements

The company said the replacements are handling customer service and network operational duties.

Aug 16, 2011

Perry Blasts Fed, Obama in Noisy Start to Race

Texas Governor Rick Perry has only been a presidential candidate since Saturday, but the Republican hopeful has already produced some of the most inflammatory rhetoric of the early 2012 campaign.

Aug 16, 2011

Taliban fighters pose with weapons as they sit in their compound at an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan

London Riots 2011: Taliban Blames Disorder on UK Govt.'s Afghan War Expenditures

The group connected the unrest to the war in Afghanistan ? suggesting that the British government could no longer afford to pay for that military campaign.

Aug 16, 2011

Death of Elvis Presley: 34 Years Later, We Still Love You (Photos)

Elvis Presley: 10 More Things You Might Not Have Known About Him

Here are some more things you may not have known about the man who made songs like ?Hound Dog? and ?Heartbreak Hotel? internationally beloved.

Aug 16, 2011

Manchester United May Consider IPO in Asian Market

An initial public offering is only one of a number of possible strategies the Glazer family is proposing.

Aug 16, 2011

Elvis Presley: 10 Things You Might Not Have Known About The King

Here are some things you may not have known about the man who made songs like ?Hound Dog? and ?Heartbreak Hotel? internationally beloved.

Aug 16, 2011

Elvis Presley: The Day He Met The Beatles

The Beatles, all of whom worshipped Elvis while they were teenagers in Liverpool (especially John Lennon), always said they sought to match and even surpass the fame of the man from Tupelo.

Aug 16, 2011

Gunmen Dressed As Iraqi Soldiers Kill Members of militia Group Outside Mosque

The murders follow a campaign on bombings across Iraq which has killed at least 68 people.

Aug 16, 2011

London Riots 2011: Cyber-Snooping Helped to Prevent Two Attacks

"We were able to secure all those places and indeed there was no damage at any of them."

Aug 16, 2011

Supporters of Anna Hazare wave placards during a protest rally against corruption in Mumbai

India Detains Hundreds of Supporters of Anti-Corruption Campaigner

Hazare has reportedly been jailed for a week in the Tihar prison in Delhi.

Aug 16, 2011

Police officers prepare to carry out a raid in Pimlico, London

London Riots 2011: Government May Grant Police Increased Powers, Curfew Also Considered

May praised the courage of front-line police officers during the riots and sympathized with the hopeless position they are placed in when dealing with extraordinary civil disturbances.

Aug 16, 2011

A protester is surrounded by police during a demonstration at the BART Civic Center Station in San Francisco

San Francisco Mass Transit Closes Four Stations Following Hacking Protest by Anonymous

The four stations that were closed -- Civic Center, Powell, Montgomery and Embarcadero ? are busy commuter hubs in the downtown section of the city.

Aug 16, 2011

A BMW employee assembles a BMW motorcycle at the company's factory in Berlin

German Economy Slows in Second Quarter As Eurozone Debt Fears Spiral

The statistic office indicated that while German exports grew, imports also sharply rose.

Aug 16, 2011

Striking South African municipal workers march through the streets of Cape Town

Verizon Strike 2011: The South African Example, Where Strikes Are Endemic

South Africa is in the midst of a massive waves of strikes by tens of thousands of workers across many industries which threaten to paralyze the national economy.

Aug 15, 2011

Google-Motorola Mobility Deal: The Impact and Ramifications

Under the deal, Motorola Mobility will remain licensee of Android, which will stay open and available for use by other hardware manufacturers at no cost.

Aug 15, 2011

Ed Miliband under attack over his image, style and message

London Riots 2011: Labour Party Chief Miliband?s Speech

British Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband delivered the following speech in the wake of devastating riots at his old school, Haverstock Comprehensive in Chalk Farm, London.

Aug 15, 2011

Two police officers stand outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London

London Riots 2011: 16,000 Front-Line Police to Lose Jobs in Next 4 Years

Coincidentally, 16,000 officers were deployed across London recently to quell the rioting that swept the city.

Aug 15, 2011

500,000 US steeloworkers went on strike in 1959

Verizon Strike 2011: The Steel Strike of 1959 Was Ten Times Bigger

Shortages of steel raised fears that the automobile industry would suffer production cuts and might have to lay off significant numbers of their own workers.

Aug 15, 2011

Verizon Strike 2011: IBEW Union Boss Warns Workers Not To Cross Picket Line

The following is a statement from Edwin D. Hill, International President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) regarding recent developments in the strike against Verizon.

Aug 15, 2011

Verizon Strike 2011: Union Boss Says It?s About ?Survival?

Virtually all strikers are from the company?s struggling wireline division.

Aug 15, 2011

Geediyo Mohamed Abdi, a displaced Somali mother, sits next her children in Banadir hospital in Mogadishu

Eyewitness Accounts of Horrors of Life in Somalia

The following are excerpts of eyewitness accounts to the suffering in Somalia, as recorded by HRW researchers:

Aug 15, 2011

A displaced Somali prepares to serve food at a camp in Hodan district in capital Mogadishu

All Sides to Blame in Somalia Crisis: Human Rights Watch

Beset by famine, civil war and terrorist militant groups, Somalia is enduring the worst crisis in Africa in at least 20 years.

Aug 15, 2011

Knife Killings of Six People Shocks Tranquil Isle of Jersey

The victims haven't been identified yet, but they are believed to all be related and also Jersey residents.

Aug 15, 2011

Argentine President Fernandez waves to supporters after hearing the first results of the primary election in Buenos Aires

Argentine President Wins Primary, Suggesting Easy Re-Election in October

Fernandez praised the primary election as "historic" and a "qualitative leap" for Argentina.

Aug 15, 2011

Locke, new U.S. ambassador to China, stands with his family outside their residence as he speaks to the media in Beijing

New U.S. Ambassador to China Assures Treasury Investments Safe

As the biggest holder of U.S. debt, China has bitterly criticized the Americans? profligate ways as well as the recent debt-ceiling fiasco in Washington.

Aug 15, 2011

Communication Workers of America union members Lynn Oldenburg (L) and Geoffrey Lawson (R) walk the picket line at a Verizon office complex in Silver Spring, Maryland, August 7, 2000

Verizon Strike 2011: Eleven Years of Labor Peace Disappears

The last time Verizon workers went on strike was in August 2000, when members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) held a work stoppage for eighteen days.

Aug 14, 2011