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Hotel Mohenjodaro Of Ajoka Stages
2008-06-09 00:00:00 The Ajoka Theatre staged a new performance "Hotel Mohenjodaro" based on a short story by Ghulam Abbas here at the auditorium of National Art Gallery.Adapted and directed by Shahid Nadeem, the play was presented by the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) in collaboration with Sustainable Development Policy Institute ...
PPP considering legal action against Bhatia
2008-06-09 00:00:00 The ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is considering legal action against the Indian author of a new book on its late chairperson Benazir Bhutto, which the party feels does not portray her in a good light. The PPP has condemned as "despicable" London-based Indian journalist Shyam Bhatia's claim in his ... More About: Action , Legal
DMK, PMK on collision path in TN
2008-06-09 00:00:00 The war of words between ruling DMK and its key ally PMK seems to be reaching a flash-point with both hurling charges against each other, the latest being PMK founder S Ramadoss' remarks that the government was "unfit" to rein in "money-fleecing" self-financing engineering colleges. The comments of Ramadoss came ... More About: Collision , Path
Raje launches fresh effort for talks with Gujjars
2008-06-09 00:00:00 Fresh efforts were today (June 8) launched by the Rajasthan government to bring agitating Gujjars to the negotiating table after the two sides failed to agree on a common venue for talks.The state authorities were in constant communication with Gujjar leader KS Bainsla in a bid to finalise the venue ... More About: Fresh
Rajiv probe leads CBI to Germany
2008-06-09 00:00:00 Even after 17 years, the CBI has not left its pursuit to unravel the conspiracy behind the killing of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and recently an agency team was here seeking banking details of alleged LTTE financier Kumaran Padmanathan. Diplomatic sources here said that CBI Director Vijay Shanker held ... More About: Germany , Leads , Probe
Lord Hanuman ?appointed? chairman of technology college
2008-06-09 00:00:00 A technology college near Lucknow has an unusual chairman with literally high connections - Lord Hanuman . The Sardar Bhagat Singh College of Technology and Management, which is approved by the All India Council for Technology and Education (AICTE) and is awaiting affiliation to the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU), has ... More About: Chairman
China to launch new communication satellite
2008-06-09 00:00:00 China would launch a new French-made communications satellite to be used for live television broadcasts, on board its Long March-3B rocket carrier on Monday (June 9). Zhongxing-9, built by France-based Thales Alenia Space (TAS) for China Satcom would be launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, state-run Xinhua news agency ... More About: Communication , China
Mayawati sacks tainted Minister
2008-06-09 00:00:00 A Minister in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati 's cabinet has been charged with murder. In what seems to be yet another case of hooliganism by a Minister -- Jamuna Nishad, who holds the fisheries portfolio in Maya's cabinet -- was arrested for murder of a police constable by one of ...
32 killed in Lanka clashes
2008-06-09 00:00:00 At least 31 LTTE cadre, including one woman, and a soldier were killed in fierce clashes across Sri Lanka 's restive north, the military said in Colombo today (June 8).At least two LTTE cadres were killed in encounters in North-west Mannar yesterday, the Defence Ministry said. A soldier was also reported ... More About: Killed
Iran protests to UN over Israel attack warning
2008-06-09 00:00:00 TEHRAN :Iran protested to the United Nations on Saturday over a warning by an Israel i minister that it faces attack over its contested nuclear programme, the official IRNA news agency reported. The protest came in a letter from Iran's mission at the United Nations to the UN Security Council and UN ... More About: Warning , Protests , Attack
Quotes Of The Day: On Bush?s Appeasement Comments Delivered In Israel (UPDA
2008-05-16 00:00:00 Democratic bigwig Rep. Rahm Emanuel on Bush ?s comments (see posts below) suggesting that Democratic Senator Barack Obama wanted to appease terrorists:The tradition has always been that when a U.S. President is overseas, partisan politics stops at the water?s edge. President Bush has now taken that principle and turned it on ... More About: Israel , Quotes , Comments , Appeasement
I won`t leave ?????? Amitabh
2008-05-16 00:00:00 Mumbai, April 08: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan on Tuesday reacted strongly to the allegations leveled by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray and said that he will not leave Mumbai city at any cost. In an interview to a city daily, the emotionally hurt superstar said, ?Let them throw ... More About: Leave
The Impact and Transformational Appeal of Barack Obama
2008-05-16 00:00:00 Trying to explain Barack Obama and the impact his appearance is having on people around the world is a gargantuan task.This article from France?s Liberation takes a good stab at it by examining his influence on young people - especially on those in the French suburbs which are so often ... More About: Appeal
Elitism: Good for Basketball; Good for Politics?
2008-05-16 00:00:00 Watching America today features an article from Italy?s La Stampa, entitled ?Competence Isn?t Elitism?.How very correct. The final paragraph of the article, translated by Boyd T. DeLanzo, is worth quoting in its entirety.Universal suffrage is only one half of democracy; the other half is education. Only if citizens are put ... More About: Politics , Basketball , Good
More From the Disaster Zone
2008-05-16 00:00:00 Thousands of people who lost their homes in the quake have gone to the Jiuzhou Stadium in MianyangYesterday we traveled to several more Sichuan towns that were hit hard by Monday's earthquake. Here's the story we put together and also a photo essay. . . More About: Disaster , Zone
The Reyes computers were not tampered
2008-05-16 00:00:00 As expected, Interpol certified that the computers taken at the Reyes camp had not been tampered with. Note: that does not mean that the info in the Reyes computer is proof enough of Chavez collusion with the FARC, it ONLY means that whatever evidence comes out of that computer ... More About: Computers
On miscegenation and gay marriage
2008-05-16 00:00:00 I find Richard Thompson Ford?s, The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse, compelling and convincing in just about every way but one: he argues gay marriage is not like miscegenation.Ampersand reminds us that Mildred Loving didn?t agree.On the 40th Anniversary of Loving v Virginia Mrs. Loving ... More About: Marriage , Gay Marriage
Bush On Political Attack: Suggests Obama And Democrats Seek ?Appeasement? O
2008-05-16 00:00:00 President George Bush has all-but-formally entered campaign 2008 today suggesting ? from foreign soil yet? that the Democrats would want ?appeasement? of terrorists, in language sharper than usual. What you read below is one reason why manyindependent voters who were once Republicans or voted Republican could well cast a ... More About: Political , Obama , Seek
Do You Know the Tale of Brewster Kahle?
2008-05-16 00:00:00 You should know the tale. We all should know it. Kahle?s is the face of a modern-American hero, and Eric Mink ably summarized his story in yesterday?s edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. . . More About: Brewster , Tale
Hardball Host Chris Matthews Obliterates Conservative Talk Show Host On Bus
2008-05-16 00:00:00 MSNBC Hardball Host Chris Matthews dealt with President George Bush?s charge that Senator Barack Obama would appease terrorists on his show and obliterated Los Angeles conservative radio talk show host Kevin James who was on the show to give the Barack-is-an-appeaser side of it.James? problem: he had no idea what ... More About: Show , Conservative , Talk , Talk Show
CLASHES IN BEIRUT? Hezbollah Declares Lebanese Army an Enemy!
2008-05-07 00:00:00 UPDATE: Hezbollah sends armed gunmen out on the streets!More images of the Hezbollah gunmen HERE.There were also reportsthat Hizbullah was massing gunmen in downtown Beirut .Hezbollah Terrorizes Beirut-- Heavy Gunfire and use of Rocket Propelled Grenades Reported!** Hezbollah declares the Lebanese Army an enemy!** Hezbollah promises to open the gates of ... More About: Enemy
Photo Shoots: Bipasha Basu for Filmfare magazine
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Hospital error gives 6-year old HIV
2008-05-07 00:00:00 In a fateful mistake, a hospital in Haryana -- Yamuna Nagar Civil Hospital -- has administered HIV contaminated blood to a six year old girl named Ishika. Ishika has Thallasemia, which requires her to get a blood transfusion very often. It was through one of these transfusions at the hospital in ... More About: Error , Year
Democratic Party Crack Up?
2008-05-07 00:00:00 When over 90% of black Democrats are not voting for the Clintons you know you have a party that is bitterly divided along racial lines.But that's not all.Marc Ambinder reported on the party crack up:Forget the horse race numbers for a moment: if the surveys are accurate, the polarization within ... More About: Party , Democratic , Democratic Party , Crack
Sam Harris Discusses Liberal Weakness in the Age of Terror
2008-05-07 00:00:00 Charles Johnson pointed out the terrific piece by Sam Harris on radical Islam that was posted at Huffington Post after the Washington Post found it to be too offensive.Here are a couple of the offensive lines:The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: ... More About: Terror , Liberal , Sam Harris
Katrina Kaif to play Scarlet Keeling in Prabhakar Shukla?s Rave Party
2008-05-07 00:00:00 Katrina Kaif may play the role of Scarlet Keeling in Rave Party , a proposed Bollywood film to be based on the tragic death of the 15-year-old British tourist in Goa.According to the latest buzz in B-Town, director Prabhakar Shukla is planning the film and plans to shoot in Goa.?Since the ... More About: Katrina , Katrina Kaif , Play
Why Hillary Clinton Won?t Drop Out Of Democratic Presidential Nomination Ra
2008-05-07 00:00:00 CNN just showed Senator Hillary Clinton at a campaign appearance, gearing up for the upcoming West Virginia primary ? and the subject comes up: with the number of pledged delegates, the popular vote and fund-raising against her, why won?t she quit her battle with Senator Barack Obama for the 2008 ... More About: Nomination , Presidential , Democratic
?Who says the deal is dead??
2008-05-07 00:00:00 Not subscribing to the view that the Indo-US nuclear deal is dead, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday (May 7) said he was still hopeful of the deal. "I am hopeful so long as we are discussing it," the Prime Minister said scotching media speculation that the deal was dead. ... More About: Deal , Dead
Video: De Taali trailer
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Today in Washington D. C. - May 7, 2008
More articles from this author:2008-05-07 00:00:00 On The Floor: Senate reconvened at 9:30 AM today. After an hour of morning business, the Senate will resume post-cloture consideration of the motion to proceed to the flood insurance bill (S. 2284). Yesterday, a motion to invoke cloture on the Rockefeller substitute amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill (H.R. ... More About: Washington , Today , 2008 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |



