16-foot python in Florida had eaten a deer EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK : Officials in the Florida Everglades have captured and killed a 16-foot-long Burmese python that had just eaten an adult deer. Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, said workers found the snake on Thursday. The reptile was one [...]
Burgler in pink bikini wanted by Indianapolis police Know any guys in the Indianapolis area who like to wear girl’s swimsuits? If so, maybe you can help police find a man who broke into a day care center last week. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police on Friday released surveillance video from after 10 p.m. Oct. 20 showing [...]
Philippine farmers cash in on civet coffee dung LIPA: Philippine farmers used to hunt and kill the civets that ate their coffee beans — until they realised the animals’ droppings were worth a small fortune. Now the ravenous nocturnal raider with the pungent faeces has a status akin to the fabled goose that lays the [...]
KANDAHAR: Two people were killed and two wounded in a suicide car bombing in front of the offices of a non-governmental organisation in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said. Ahmad Faisal of the Kandahar government’s media office gave the toll, while a doctor at nearby Mirwais hospital said it had received three wounded, [...]
Looters make away with invaluable gold and silver coins belonging to the Alexander era London: A gang of looters in Libya have targetted the invaluable treasure of gold and silver coins that are believed to date to the era of Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C). The thieves carried off the pieces, known as The Treasure [...]
Qantas to resume flights after government intervenes in dispute Australia’s Qantas Airways scrambled to get back in the air on Monday, having grounded its entire fleet over the weekend in a bold tactic to force the government to intervene in the nation’s worst labor dispute in a decade. Qantas had taken the drastic step to [...]
Greater Noida: A Formula One season can be demanding. Teams virtually live out of a suitcase and the drivers and crew are looked after with a lot of compassion to ensure the fatigue factor does not creep in. The 2011 season is at its fag end and with two more weekends of racing to go [...]
Bangalore: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani late on Sunday played down the slew of graft charges faced by the ruling party in Karnataka at a rain-hit public meeting here as his Jan Chetna Yatra anti-corruption tour entered the state. “Good governance cannot coexist with corruption. I do not say this just for the [...]
Imphal: For some, it has become a way of life. As the economic blockade in Manipur crossed an unprecedented 90 days, its residents continue to wait for a miraculous breakthrough, even as the situation has only become worse – with prices of essential commodities touching the sky and health services worsening. “The situation has only [...]
Kolkata: A 16-year-old boy was Sunday found hanging in his house in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, police said. His father was arrested for allegedly killing the teenager as neighbours had seen him being beaten. Sagnik Ray Choudhury, a Class 10 student, was beaten by his father for not doing well in a school [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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