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In a report released on Monday 17th November some  senior city economists now   believe interest rates may not rise off their record lows of 0.5% until 2016. They also revised their growth forecasts for 2015 downwards to 2.4% from 2.6%, lower than BoE forecasts.

Mulayam Singh, the so called NetaJi by his son Akhilesh, the Chief Minster of U.P India celebrated his birth day in a big way supported by Azam Khan one of the Minsters of the U.P. government.

The conclusions of a recent report from Knight Frank on W2, are a ringing endorsement of the areas which have been traditionally seen as the poor side of Hyde Park. I have been in this locality since 2002, when I started in property as an estate agent in Spring Street, Paddington W2.

Readers may endorse Mr. Gandhi’s optimistic letter about benign Muslim friends. It is assuring that the whole Islamic community is not in favour of ISIL or global jehad. We must wish that such ethos may prevail over whole Islamic community/nations. We hope and pray for violence-fatigue and emergence of new Islamic world order that may compete with Jain or Budhhist style of non violence and/or Hindu Yoga.

Every penny raised for the Gandhi statue in Parliament Square, London, (AV 22 November), is a nail in the coffin of honour and dignity of women. It is unbelievable that a man with self-confessed use of women, and not just any women but his  own teenage great-grand niece and the wife of his great-grand nephew, who crossed all barriers of decency and morality, should be so honoured.

When ebola broke out in West Africa, some have sent money to the crisis appeal; many will buy the new Band Aid single; others simply fret more about it reaching the UK or dismiss it as “west Africa’s problem”

Some 20,000 students demonstrated in London last week because they said they did not want to live in a society where access to higher education was based on wealth. The students were demonstrating against an increase in top up fees.

The barbaric beheading of Peter Kassig has been reported all over the world. He is the fifth western victim to be murdered in this way. Before the advent of the modern world beheading was practised by many countries as an instrument of capital punishment.

A suicide bomber killed 50 people at a volleyball match in Afghanistan on Sunday, a provincial official said, as foreign troops withdraw from the country after more than a decade of fighting