20,000 evacuated as volcano erupts in Indonesia
Jakarta – About 12,000 people have fled villages on the mountainside of the Mount Sinabung volcano in Sumatra as it erupted again, bringing the total number of displaced people to 20,000, officials said Monday. Bowo Asa, senior official at the disaster management and mitigation agency at... read more »
NGO confederation revokes award given to Tejpal
New Delhi – An award ! given to Tehelka magazine founder and editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, who! has been accused of sexually assaulting a junior colleague, for his contribution to society has been revoked, a group of NGOs Monday said. A statement from iCONGO (a confederation of NGOs), said... read more »
‘Headley betrayed all – his wives, US, ISI, LeT’
By Ranjana Narayan New Delhi – Lashkar-e-Taiba ! (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley, who scouted targets for the 26/11 terror attack, was “never anyone’s client” and his modus operandi was only to “save himself by sacrificing others”, say Adrian Levy and Cathy... read more »
“Six legged Soldiers”
I have come across the most amazing book “Six legged Soldiers” by Jeffrey Lockwood. He talks about man’s use of insects as the earliest weapons. The Bible is full of this. The god of the Israelites Yahweh or Jehovah, in the Old Testament, used “blights” to frighten the enemies of... read more »
Tamil poet Jeyapalan arrested in Sri Lanka for violating visa condition
Norwegian Tamil poet and actor V.I.S. Jeyapalan has been arrested in Sri Lanka for violating visa regulations. Jaffna-born Jeyapalan, 79, was arrested on Friday at Mankulam in the... read more »
So-called clean AAP leaders are indulging in malpractice: Khurshid
New Delhi – External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday criticised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the wake of a sting operation nailing eight AAP leaders. “Anybody can... read more »
How to board planes the right way revealed
Melbourne – The airlines have always used the wrong way, when it comes to boarding the passengers on the plane, a study suggests. While some prefer to board the plane from back to... read more »
Rape victims should not be addressed as ‘bechari’: Meira Kumar
Kolkata – Arguing that things have hardly changed even with stringent laws post the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Saturday insisted that a rape... read more »
Police officer blackmailing me: Suspended Trinamool MP
Kolkata – A day after dragging West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s name into the Saradha scam, suspended Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh Saturday accused a senior police... read more »
