While the Left parties are mulling over withdrawing their support to the Indian governement, after more than a year of repeated threats to do the same, the Samajwadi Party (SP), a major party in the important State of Uttar Pradesh that has a good...
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The African Union, in its latest summit on July 01, has come forward with a compromise formula to defuse the political time bomb in Zimbabwe. It has proposed the formation of a national unity government in which the opposition parties will share power...
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The ‘Morse Code’, widely used in transmitting telegraphic information, came into general use in the 19th century. It was adopted for distress calls from ships in danger on 01-07-1908. The code was invented by Samuel Morse, an American...
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A young mother died while trying to rescue her 3 yr old daughter who had fallen from the seat of an amusement ride in the childrens’ play area of Bangalore’s Cubbon Park on Monday.
The much publicised Nano car from Tata may take more time to arrive on the roads. The continuing land acquisition problems at Singur, West Bengal, have forced the company to delay the launch and reduce production level as well.
An Indian father-in-law in the U.S. has been convicted for killing his son’s black wife. He has been punished with life sentence for hiring hitmen to strangle his 22 year old daughter-in-law.
Robert Mugabe wins the farcical run-off elections and is sworn in president for another five years term. He has won all 10 provinces with 85.5 percent votes, the Electoral Commission has declared. He was greeted by a 21 gun salute and fighter jet...
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India’s first Field Marshal, Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, passed away this morning in Wellington, Tamil Nadu. A WW II veteran, Manekshaw was a hero of the 1962 war with China and later successfully played the lead role in the...
After all the brouhaha and breast beating about Iran’s uranium enrichment program, now it is time for the United States to open a diplomatic outpost in that country, on the lines of its Interest Section in communist Cuba, a de facto embassy.
Yasin Malik, chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), has threatened to go on a fast-unto-death if the government did not take back its order transferring 100 acres of forest land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB).
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