By Dr, Helmy Haja Mydin. First published in The Sun 11 May 2012

I have always been fascinated with Iceland. As a child, I spent a good few months absorbing anything and everything about volcanoes (this occurred shortly after my ‘dinosaur phase’). That led me to fall in love with Iceland, a country that is quite literally rising out of the ocean due to vast amounts of volcanic activity that recently brought most of Western Europe to a standstill with the eruption of the unpronounceable Eyjafjallajokull.

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A few weeks ago, I was doing a piece on Hafiz Saeed,whoseems to be a loud opponent of the status of “Most Favored Nation” status recently given to India. Most Favored Nation, according to Wikipedia, means that the country recipient of this treatment must receive equal trade advantages like low tariffs or high import quotas.

Empowering India from New Delhi, India honoured with prize for world’s best e-governance and institution website at Cairo ICT.

New Delhi/Cairo/Salzburg, April 25, 2012

Empowering India (Empowering India) from India is among the world’s top 40 in outstanding e-Content. Together with the world’s best e-content producers Empowering India will receive UN-based World Summit Award (WSA) on April, 27 at Cairo ICT trade fair in the e-governance and institution. Empowering India was selected from 460 projects and 105 countries by a Jury of ICT Experts in Hong Kong in June 2011.